MOVIE REVIEW: Tense exploration of Afghanistan's chaos is camouflaged as an action flick in Kandahar.
, his story of a businessman who ends up as a neo-Nazi prison gang boss. Both find ways to explain a hellish descent as a series of personal tragedies and moral lapses. Take the opening operation – the destruction of an Iranian nuclear facility by American operatives. It's shot like aset-piece, with the requisite round of applause in the remote operations center when a city is suddenly vaporized from beneath the soil.
This is the bleakest view of spy craft, and a vision of Afghanistan as a Gordian knot that was tightly wound before Islam arrived.
LaFortune presents an undeniably Western perspective on modern Islam's existential crisis between traditionalists, modernizers, progressives, and radical reactionaries, a crisis played out across the region and crystallized in clashes between stylish Pakistani superspy Kahil and his bosses: They call him Westernized, whereas he sees himself as merely modern. Everyone is a true believer, even if their beliefs can never mesh.
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