対イラク武力行使

"I can only tell you I wanted to touch him, I wanted to reach out and
touch him because you're really right there," Zwillinger told ABC News.

「息子にただ触れたかった。手を伸ばして触れたかったと言えるだけです」


Painful as it is to watch, she calls the movie a blessing.
観るのはつらいが、映画を祝福だと言います。


"To see him alive, moving, was wonderful," she says.
"Having to come to terms with losing him and watching is something else,
but literally it allowed me to be there with him in his final moments."

「息子が生きて、動いているのを観るだけで、素晴らしかったです。
息子を失ったことに折り合いをつけることと、
息子の姿を観ることとは別のことなんです。
文字通り最期の瞬間に息子を一緒に居られました」


There have been some complaints that "Baghdad ER" is too graphic,
too negative, but Zwillinger sees it differently.

「バグダッドER」があまりにも写実的で、あまりにも否定的であるという
若干の苦情がありました。しかし Zwillinger さんは違った観方をしています。


"This is war, this is war, this is what people need to see," she says.
"If they don't believe this is raw image, then they are not in reality."

「これが戦争です。これが戦争というものです。
これは人々が見る必要があるものです」
「もしこれが生々しいイメージであると信じないなら、
現実を生きていないことになります」


"What does the public really see right now?
The public sees a blurb on the second page of a newspaper,
we're not even front page newspaper anymore.
It's a little blurb saying 'two soldiers have lost
their lives over in Baghdad' ? that's it.
… You don't get the graphic reality of what war is about until you see
the film. That's war, it's graphic, it's raw, it's authentic,it's real."

「人々は現在何を見ますか？
人々は新聞の二面で報道を見ます。
私達はもう一面でさえありません。
「二人の兵士がバグダッドで亡くなりました」という小さい宣伝文ですか？
それはそれです。
映像を観るまで、戦争についてのリアルな現実を手に入れません。
それは戦争です。それは写実的です。生々しいです。
それは真実です。それは現実です」





Baghdad ER: Documentary On US Military Hospital in Iraq
Gets Cold Reception From Army
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/17/1510218
(BAGHDAD E.R.については番組の38分過ぎからです。
(二人の共同監督が出演。PAULA ZWILLINGER さんも電話で出演)

AMY GOODMAN: How important do you think it is for people to see
these images?

PAULA ZWILLINGER: I think it's very important. It brings the reality of
the war into the home. Right now, as we've talked about previously,
what is the public really seeing nowadays? They're seeing a paragraph on
the second page of a newspaper saying that, you know, we lost X number
of lives today, whether it be an I.E.D., whether a tank rolled over,
and it's just a little paragraph, and you don't really get the visual
image of really what war is about until you see the movie.

It's very easy to read it in the paper. There's no getting around it.
It's a little cold. It's not detailed. You know, you never get details
in the newspaper, but when you see the documentary it really hits home,
because it's reality. What you're going to see is war,
and it's the outcome of war, whether it be positive or negative.

新聞では詳述されません。ドキュメンタリーを観ると、それは現実ですから、
それは本当に胸にしみこみます。あなたが観るものは戦争です。
それが肯定的であるか、あるいは否定的であるかにかかわらず、
それは戦争の結果です。