Because the UN is taking some pretty serious hits in the media and elsewhere (reference oil for food scandal, UN “peacekeepers” charged with raping and/or sexually molesting young girls in the Congo, the Central African Republic, East Timo and Kosovo; Belgian peacekeepers roasted a Somali boy and other acts of sadism and torture against Somali citizens, one of the UN’s senior officials from France ran an Internet pedophile ring that victimized hundreds of children and had been caught with a 12-year old; the UN’s Population Fund (UNFPA) continues to fund China’s notoriously brutal program of forced abortion and sterilization; despotic dictatorships and terrorist regimes chair or help run UN committees on human rights and terrorism, etc.), Hollywonk comes to the rescue and decided it was time to put out some more propaganda shoring up support for the UN and promoting the authority of the international criminal court. Hence, the release of The Interpreter.
The movie’s plot is around Nicole Kidman, who plays an African-born UN interpreter named Sylvia Broome. Broome returns late at night to her glass booth above the darkened UN General Assembly room to fetch her flute and happens to hear two men whispering about an assassination plot. Unbeknownst to the conspirators, a nearby microphone just happens to be on and their blot is broadcast over Broome’s earphones. The would-be assassins were speaking in Ku, the imaginary African tribal dialect of the imaginary African country of Matobo, which is obviously meant to represent modern-day Zimbabwe. Broome, who just happens to be on of the half-dozen or so interpreters who understand and speaks Ku, just happens to be in her cubicle for the few seconds when they reveal their scheme. Of course, the interpreter must inadvertently give herselve away so that killers realize they’ve been made, so that they’ll get a good look at her.
The chase is on. Will the killer succeed in their assassination of a head of state inside the UN General Assembly before a live worldwide audience? Will the killers get to Broome? Who are the killers? Broome couldn’t identify them and there are many who qualify as suspects. To make matters worse, Broome comes under suspicion herself! The target of the assassins is Dr. Edmond Zuwanie, who is clearly meant to represent Zimbabwe’s murderous dictator, Robert Mugabe. Like Mugabe, Zuwanie was once hailed in the UN as a savior of Africa, but his time in power has proven him to be a genocidal meglomaniac rather than their messiah. But unlike the fictional Zuwanie, Mugabe still has a big following among fellow kleptocrats and tyrants at the UN–despite the fact that he has become an embarrassment and a pariah to the media and academic elites who boosted him to power. Zimbabwe, after all, currently serves as an esteemed member of the UN Commission for Human Rights!
This film is the first to ever be done “on location” right at the UN HQ. With a succession of scenes filmed at the General Assembly, says Seattle Post’s Williams Arnold, “the Security Council and its various nooks, crannies and corridors, the 60-year old building becomes the movie’s third star and in its director’s viewfinders, mankind’s only hope for the future.”
The movie’s real plot goal from the very beginning.
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