Green Zone, international trailer

After yesterday’s action-oriented domestic trailer for Green Zone, we now have the substantially improved international cut — more serious, more provocative, more relevant. As we’re tempted to make comparisons to The Hurt Locker or Body of Lies, let’s not forget that the job of those movies is to fictionalize reality, while Greengrass is telling a true story to dramatize reality. Two equally valid approaches, each capable of landing gut-punches with meaningful impact. But Green Zone promises to deliver what Greengrass does best. In films like Bloody Sunday and United 93, Paul Greengrass recreates reality with a pulsating sense of intense immediacy. Nobody’s a bigger fan of The Hurt Locker than I am, but here’s where Green Zone ups the ante: this shit really happened.

(Thanks to Amanda — took a few hours to find a copy that would play without freezing up.)