Considering what films Kirsten Dunst is known for I find her an unusual, but not necessarily wrong, choice for this latest Iraq film. From MovieWeb:
According to Variety, Kirsten Dunst will play Marla Ruzicka in a film about the 28-year-old American relief worker who was killed in Iraq by a suicide bomber…
…The studio and the producers made a deal last summer for Ruzicka’s life rights, as well as a book that’s being written about her by Jennifer Abrahamson. Abrahamson had planned to collaborate on the book with Ruzicka, and they had turned out a number of pages that were going to serve as a book proposal.
Ruzicka was a dynamo in her quest to get reparations for the scores of civilian casualties after the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions, compiling lists of war victims and seeking compensation and medical treatment from the U.S. government. The org she founded, the Campaign for Innocent Victims of Conflict, raised $28 million to assist casualties of war in those countries.
Ruzicka and her driver were killed in April when a suicide bomber crashed into a security convoy they were trailing.
The story will certainly provide a different look at the war from the one we’ve been seeing to date, and I think a very welcome differing view. My only concern is that it goes off in one direction and begins preaching. I hope it doesn’t, remains balanced, and tells a story that makes us all reflect a little.
Do you think Dunst can pull a role like this off and not detract from the story itself?
