| Themenübersicht: |
| Stealing the Fire |
||
|
Directed by John S. Friedman and Eric Nadler At Cinema Village Access of Evil by Jon Dolan October 16 - 22, 2002 But in a quaint kinda way. For a really scary monster, Stealing the Fire unravels the roots of Iraq's hobbled-but-horny nuclear weapons program, in terms that'll have you packing for Nebraska. John S. Friedman and Eric Nadler trace Saddam's bomb lust back to Heisenberg, the Nazis, and a company called Degussa built on confiscated Jewish capital. The story's sniveling swingman is Karl-Heinz Schaab, a Dilbertian technician who boosted information on centrifuge secrets from Degussa and sold it to Iraqi agents in the late '80s. Pretty horrific, huh? Well, placing blame sorta misses the point in a world of matrixed self-interest where all is equally just and unjust. This is the type of story that gives John Le Carré bed sweats-skating through Brazilian jails, Egyptian hideouts, Russian prison camps, past cats with names like Zippe and Boetcher, from Auschwitz to Amsterdam, right through the Pentagon and straight into Don DeLillo country. Its black center (or lack thereof) comes courtesy of Schaab's chain-smoking defense lawyer, Michael Rietz: "Man is bad, world is evil." Boo. Copyright © 2003 Village Voice Media, Inc., 36 Cooper Square, New York, NY 10003 The Village Voice and Voice are registered trademarks. All rights reserved. |
