incendiary

incendiary with ewan mcgregor is an intriguing, at times sexual, story. it is an exploration of what it would mean to have a major terrorist incident in london. it is seen through the eyes of a woman who loses her husband and child in the bombings. ewan mcgregor, an investigative journalist, is one of the love interests of the woman in question, with the other, a high level anti-terrorism spy. we are still, as a society, dealing with 9/11 and when films like this come out they are a working out of what just happened, what we had been avoiding. it is easy to get angry at the terrorists, or to return hate for hate, to see them as a cancer that has to be eradicated, or to torture them, but it is harder to see that blame can be on both sides. toward the end of the film the main character is writing her letters directly to osama bin laden even though of course she knows they will never be delivered to him. and she acknowledges that any struggle has two sides, so she is going to write letters as well to the leaders of the western world. she struggles with the loss of her son and it is a very emotional film.