assess our ability to sort the real from the unreal inside a total information system that often contains an overwhelming amount of “fabricated” information.
The Gulf War was a war fought over oil. Plain and simple, it had nothing to do with the liberation of Kuwaitis suffering the oppression of Saddam Hussein’s forces. Instead, it had everything to do with the fact that the oil-starved West refused to tolerate Saddam Hussein’s invasion and control of an oil-rich land. However, most media accounts of the war, especially mass media accounts, presented the war as one being waged in the name of democracy, humanity and freedom. The war was presented by politicians and the mainstream media in the West as a war of human liberation not oil extrication. In Three Kings, director David O. Ridley explores this inherent contradiction behind the Gulf War, exposing the absurdity and “fabricated” nature of modern war presentation by politicians and the media. The film opens as th
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