At 10:44 PM 5/2/98 -0400, Mike Yates wrote:
Sayles seems to put the soldiers and the guerillas on the same footing.
I didn't find Sayles nearly as critical of the guerillas as of the
military... There was at least some discussion of the motivation of the
guerillas (starvation in the villages,
So much for hyping "real time" communications ... I might see the Sayles
movie, if it EVER makes it here, but only long after this thread is
extinguished ... same for the Harvey debate in MR, which only comes when my
mother, bless her, remembers to forward my subs south ... at least I
Magic realism or fantasy in one form or another has been a factor in most
John Sayles films. The most obvious example was "Brother From Another
Planet." It would be possible to bypass its role in "Men with Guns", but I
think that would be a mistake. The device of the mother telling the story
to
Friend,
Have people seen John Sayles new movie, "Men With Guns." It's set in a
LA country and involves a naive well-to-do doctor who sends a bunch of
students into the countryside to help the poor. He sees one of them in
the city and asks him what he is doing back in the city when he is
