污秽战争

After years of meticulous planning, a terrorist operation is reaching its final stages. The authorities have received no intelligence; they are in a race against time but don't yet know it. As the operation unfolds, we see the working lives of men and women directly affected by terrorism. Among them: a firemen worried about the increasingly dangerous conditions he and his men are expected to work under; the head of the anti-terrorist branch whose responsibility it is to protect London and a female Muslim detective brought into Scotland Yard to investigate another suspected terrorist cell. But it is too late to stop the attack. Outside Liverpool Street station suicide bombers detonate a large bomb, killing scores of commuters and sending a radioactive plume high into the morning sky. For the police, a desperate struggle to find and stop secondary attacks begins. For the fire service, the difficult and dangerous task of carrying out search and rescue in a heavily contaminated area. And for emergency service controllers, a mammoth operation to contain and decontaminate thousands of terrified people caught up in the aftermath of the explosion. Based on extensive research, DIRTY WAR asks whether as a nation we are prepared to face such an attack. Written by anon

反恐教科书，一个具体案例的演绎。拍摄十年之后再也算不上“新世纪/后现代”了，而欧洲的恐怖主义也呈现出独狼化的趋势。影片的视角还是从国安出发，并没有对广泛认为争议的反恐行动中的civil liberty进行讨论，而表现出最核心的问题仍是: how to prioritize resources in terms of security.

一个世界上最标榜尊重人权的国家，一场捍卫宪法精神的反恐战争，人性和利害关系的撕扯。电影的角度是严格的批判，但异位而处我们也不见得能做出其他“高明”的选择，尤其是在面对错杀一个或者等待更多的恐怖袭击时。反思自己难的是在正义的大旗下。