IMDb listing
Los Angeles Times (K. Turan) review
RogerEbert.com (N. Minow) review
A Private War [2018] (directed by Matthew Heineman, screenplay Arash Amel by based on the Vanity Fair article by Marie Brenner [VF] [IMDb]) tells the story of Marie Colvin [wikip] (played by Rosamund Pike) an (American) journalist who covered some of the most brutal dangerous conflicts / civil wars of our time from the Civil War in Tamil Tiger Civil War in Lanka (where she lost one of her eyes) to the Arab Spring inspired Revolution in Libya that deposed Gaddafi to the subsequent Syrian Civil War where she (not really a spoiler alert) she died during Seige of Homs.
This is a harrowing tale of a driven journalist who repeatedly risked her life to tell the stories of innocent people in war zones who otherwise we'd never know about. Why did she do it? That's one of the questions that the movie asks viewers to consider. Yet, whatever her motive, and it was almost certainly mostly pure, we owe her and other journalists like her an enormous debt. Justice depends on being able to understand what's going on. She and other journalists like her help us to understand precisely that -- what's going on. A deep deep thank you for journalists like her.
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