Article: THE ARTS: FILM - The Big Picture - Three go mad in the desert THREEE KINGS (15) DIR: DAVID O RUSSELL STARRING: GEORGE CLOONEY, ICE CUBE AND MARK WAHLBERG 115 MINS

If David O Russell's Gulf war movie Three Kings were designed simply to convey the anarchic nature of conflict, it would have to be deemed a blinding success. I left the cinema with roughly the same information on the war as I went in with, ie very little. Places, names, strategies, territorial gains and losses, political implications: these remain as mysterious to us as they apparently did to the average American soldier stationed in the Gulf. There is a brief glimpse of a map, but its crude markings might just as well be a guide to Mars as to Iraq.

Yet as to what those soldiers might feel, dislocated and confused and vaguely bored in a country they neither like nor understand, the film ...

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