Zimbabwe: CIA Behind Kidman's "The Interpreter"

[proldic]

AP 9/3/05<br><br>Zimbabwe: CIA Is Behind Kidman Movie <br><br>HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- President Robert Mugabe's government has attacked the suspense thriller "The Interpreter," starring Nicole Kidman, claiming it is part of a propaganda campaign by the CIA that shows "Zimbabwe's enemies did not rest."<br><br>The Herald, the government-controlled daily newspaper, also linked the film to efforts by Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer last week to have Mugabe indicted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.<br><br>In the film, Kidman plays a United Nations interpreter who overhears two people discussing an apparent assassination plot against the president of a fictional Republic of Matobo. The president, Edmond Zuwanie, is accused of ethnic cleansing and plans to address the U.N. General Assembly in an attempt to forestall indictment by the International Criminal Court.<br><br>Two months after Zimbabwe's official censorship board approved the film's screening here, acting Minister of Information and Publicity Chen Chimutengwende told The Herald in Saturday's editions: "The CIA-backed film showed that Zimbabwe's enemies did not rest."<br><br>Zuwanie and the fictional country he leads have been interpreted as caricatures of Mugabe and Zimbabwe...<br><br>Zimbabwe has become an international outcast in recent years because of repression and economic mismanagement by Mugabe's regime. The government claims Western sanctions and boycotts are to blame for the country's looming financial collapse.<br> <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/Z/ZIMBABWE_THE_INTERPRETER?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME">hosted.ap.org/dynamic/sto...CTION=HOME</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>

[Watchful Citizen]

As readers of this website know, Hollywood is used to seed our culture with narratives and images that indoctrinate the young who are the least literate and most prone to manipulation.<br><br>Consider the influence of 'Star Wars' and 'An Officer and a Gentleman' and 'Top Gun.'<br>Ta da. Recruiting to enlist in the fight against the USSR, Raygun's "evil empire."<br><br>So this movie's plot can:<br>portray the UN as ineffective and political<br>portray the ICC as ineffective and political<br>portray Africa and the UN and ICC as needing white American rescuing<br><br>AND recruit linguists for the CIA<br><br>AND fictionalize in the uninformed mind the very REAL story of... <br>FBI interpreter/whistleblower Sibel Edmunds.<br><br>Too bad. Kidman is lovely to watch. <p></p><i></i>