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" Ken Loach has blasted Hollywood for making &amp;quot;disturbing&amp;quot; films about the Iraq war. The British director launched a veiled attack on Kathryn Bigelow&amp;#039;s The Hurt Locker during the Cannes press conference for his latest film Route Irish, which centres on a British private contractor who seeks to find the truth about his friend&amp;#039;s death in the conflict. Loach argued that Hollywood has ignored the &amp;#039;millions&amp;#039; of Iraqi people who have died since the invasion, saying: &amp;quot;We do have to remember that the prime victims are the Iraqis, they&amp;#039;re the ones who&amp;#039;ve suffered. If I could be a little bit contentious, it does disturb me a little when we see films from America that see the main victims as American soldiers. &amp;quot;It disturbs me even more when films like that are then dedicated to the American military because sure they&amp;#039;ve suffered, but just think of the millions of Iraqis that are dead, families destroyed, children mutilated, homes smashed, four million people in exile. In that context I find it very disturbing that films about this war are dedicated to the American military.&amp;quot; On the subject of Iraqi casualties, Route Irish screenwriter Paul Laverty hit out at Gordon Brown for &amp;quot;rewriting history&amp;quot; during his departing speech as UK Prime Minister. &amp;quot;It was memorable when Gordon Brown left office, he was, of course, part of the cabinet that approved that war, and he said, &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;ve tried my best over the years to democratise Britain, to make it more green&amp;#039;. Then he said he wanted to remember our soldiers that died,&amp;quot; Laverty commented. &amp;quot;It was absolutely remarkable given reports by organisations like Lancet, that perhaps up to a million Iraqi civilians had been killed - no mention of them, they did not matter. To see someone who was once a member of the once proud Labour party turn to that, and to rewrite history, in such a lacrimose fashion, I find it totally obscene.&amp;quot; &amp;amp;gt; Click here to read our Cannes review of &amp;#039;Route Irish&amp;#039; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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