Watching Triage made this lily-livered film writer want to both be a war reporter and never, ever be a war reporter. Set in 1988, the film stars Colin Farrell as Mark Walsh, an Irish photojournalist who returns from an especially hairy assignment on the front lines of the Kurd-Iraqi conflict with scars both physical and psychological. The title refers to the process by which the gravely wounded are sorted on the battlefield, where medical equipment is minimal and caves double for emergency rooms. When the film opens, Mark and his colleague, David (Jamie Sives), are photographing a Kurdish doctor (an excellent Branko Djuric) as he places colored tickets on bedridden victims. Yellow means the casualty is salvageable. Blue means it is not. Mark gets squeamishly close to the action, capturing the patients' torment, and clicking away as the doctor euthanizes the terminally injured with the aid of a handgun. David, meanwhile,...
- 9/14/2009
- Vanity Fair
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