“A Private War” quotes
(2018)
Title A Private War
Year 2018
Director Matthew Heineman
Genre Drama, War, Biography
Year 2018
Director Matthew Heineman
Genre Drama, War, Biography
Plot – A Private War is a biopic about the brave war reporter Marie Colvin, who worked for the British magazine The Sunday Times from 1985 to 2012. The movie tells the story of her fearless commitment in documenting reality in countries at war such as Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, a commitment that lasted up until she turned 56, when she was sent to report on the Syrian war.
All actors – Rosamund Pike, Greg Wise, Alexandra Moen, Tom Hollander, Faye Marsay, Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Raman Srinivasan, Natasha Jayetileke, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Amanda Drew, Hilton McRae, Fady Elsayed, Tristan Tait, Corey Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Toma Shelmon, Nadeem Srouji, Mahmoud Al Farj, Rani Jalal, Thaer Manakhi, David Modigliani, Pano Masti, Stanley Tucci, Alisdair Simpson, Tatjana Tasic, Mo'ath Sharif, Rami Delshad, Bassam Hanna Touma, Jérémie Laheurte, Raad Rawi, Emil Hajj, Abdul Rahman, Abdel Hakeem Horbah, Wissam Tobaileh, Emad Tayseer, Diana Mohammad, Maha Al Tamar, Ahmad Yassin, Atef Shami, Faris Kiwan, Ghandi Saber, Mohammad Taufiq, Maha Mohammad, Ali Shammari, , Manoj Anand, Michèle Belgrand, Kishore Bhatt, Pamela Betsy Cooper, Iulia Filipovscaia, Natalie Gayle, Helen Iesha Goldthorpe, Xavier Gomez, Adrian Grant, Rudy Valentino Grant, Iyad Hajjaj, Michael Haydon, Gurnita Kaur Kahlon, Imogen King, Faraz M. Khan, Bharat Mistri, Gina Morrish, Shaid Parvaz, Nig Richards, Teresa Shaughnessy, Amanda Smith, Angela Yeoh
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“I feel that we’ve failed if we don’t face what war does, if we don’t face the human horrors and tell people what really happens when all sides try to obscure the truth.”
“It’s like writing, uh, your own obituary. I suppose to look back at it and say, you know, I cared enough to go to these places and write, in some way, something that would make someone else care as much about it as I did at the time. Part of it is you’re never going to get to where you’re going if you acknowledge fear. I think fear comes later,...” (continue)(continue reading)
“Maybe I would have liked a more normal life. Maybe I just don’t know how. Or maybe this is where I feel most comfortable.”
“- Sean Ryan: Hey, Marie. I need you in Palestine, not Sri Lanka.
- Marie Colvin: Sean, there is an unreported war there.
- Sean Ryan: Yes, because journalists have been banned for more than six years. I can’t let you go. ”“If you’re not fucking crazy when you come into a place like this, you definitely will be if you get out.”
“War is not so terrible for governments, for they are not wounded or killed like ordinary people.”
“- Newspaper Editor: Why is it important, do you think, to see this images? Why is it important for you to be there? Right now you may be one of the only Western journalists in Homs. Our team has just left.
- Marie Colvin: For an audience for which any conflict is very far away, this is the reality. There are 28,000 civilians, men, women and...” (continue)(continue reading)“- Marie Colvin: The Syrian regime is claiming that they're not hitting civilians, that they're just going after terrorist gangs. But every civilian house has been hit. The top floor of the building I'm in has been totally destroyed. There are no military targets here. It is a complete and utter lie.
- Newspaper Editor: Well, thank you for using...” (continue)(continue reading)
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