Sunday, 10 October 2010

Restrepo - Another Soldier-Glorifying War Porn Movie

How long till the film about Calvin Gibbs and the mutilation platoon? - That's reality in Afghanistan.

3 comments:

  1. Try seeing the film before giving a knee jerk reaction. Robert Fisk did, and he thought it worth commenting on:

    http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-the-us-film-that-confronts-the-truth-about-afghanistan-2011042.html

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  2. Fair enough. Fisky's smarter than me.

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  3. On second thoughts, having seen all the trailers, I won't be watching the film. I've seen enough to know that it is in the 'noble soldier' tradition. In other words it's message is essentially bollocks. It has this in common with, among many others, The Hurt Locker, a film made by a jarhead about jarheads for jarheads.

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