Lies': Middlebrows in the Middle East
Three years ago, Ridley Scott directed a picture about a well-meaning young Westerner sent to fight in a war in the Middle East, where he was caught between a manipulative supervisor on his side and enraged Muslims on the other. But audiences didn't take to the moral ambiguity of “Kingdom of Heaven,” which suggested that both sides in the Crusades had some claim to call themselves “righteous.”