Can art bring us back to reality?

9’ Scripts from a Nation at War is a collaborated documentary that depicts the lives of ordinary people in Iraq. It is supposed to portray the conditions of different kinds of individuals and their struggles with the politics of the war. Of these individuals there is a student, detainees, soldiers, prisoners, artists, journalists, Europeans, Americans and about almost every kind of individual one can think of. Though we are supposed to be enlightened by their ideas and impressions of the war in Iraq and understand where we stand as individuals with this war, we are also facing the harsh realities of the war. 9’ Scripts from a Nation at War is giving us a different view of the world and the war. We begin to realize they are more than just individuals but they are also war victims. Whether psychological or physical, the violence they faced and endured makes the documentary more sensitive to the issue of the war in Iraq. This makes us wonder how have we been influenced and how have we changed with the birth of the war? Each individual in one way or anther, whether positive of negative, have had some kind thought of the conditions of the war. Some of these ideas have been so strong that they in fact gave us a different view of the world. This documentary keeps us thinking in how we have changed with the war. This piece of art has brought us back to reality.