On 2010-03-11, at 9:48 AM, Max Sawicky wrote: > The last thing I thought of after seeing this file was that the Iraq > war is in any way fun. What I took from it was that the war was a > pointless, intolerable, terrifying grind. But different strokes for > different folks, I guess. =========================== I think her point was that it could be construed as an adrenalin rush by young males, in particular, nothwithstanding that it was terrifying. Movies rarely portray war as anything other than hell these days, but that doesn't necessarily make them antiwar. In this case, the occupying troops are depicted as "heroes" - I have seen the filmmakers Bigelow and Boal characterize them as such in interviews - while the Iraqi victims, as the reviewer notes, are mainly seen as faceless "predators and ingrates", which is, I bet, what most Western audiences take from it.
Too bad Proyect and Miller aren't the hosts of nationally-syndicated At the Movies. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
