I can't believe there's not been a thread on this, but that's what search/advanced search are telling me, so feel free to shout this down and redirect me.
It's going to win award after award, and rightly so-I'd rather they rewarded such a film (aesthetically) than just give Avatar all the gongs cos it made money.
However..., I was rather uncomfortable by/at the end of the film when I saw it the other week.
Not just because of what the character does, but the sense that seeing the film thru their eyes made all Iraqis into 'the other/the enemy'. Apart from the kid. But then even John Wayne befriended a Vietnamese kid in Green Berets.
In the end I began to feel that we/the film had been 'embedded' with the bomb squad for 2 hours (in a gripping and brilliantly filmed way, I hasten to add) and that it's not the best place from which to view the situation, and is indeed likely to lead to the wrong conclusions about it.
What did youse think?
It's going to win award after award, and rightly so-I'd rather they rewarded such a film (aesthetically) than just give Avatar all the gongs cos it made money.
However..., I was rather uncomfortable by/at the end of the film when I saw it the other week.
Not just because of what the character does, but the sense that seeing the film thru their eyes made all Iraqis into 'the other/the enemy'. Apart from the kid. But then even John Wayne befriended a Vietnamese kid in Green Berets.
In the end I began to feel that we/the film had been 'embedded' with the bomb squad for 2 hours (in a gripping and brilliantly filmed way, I hasten to add) and that it's not the best place from which to view the situation, and is indeed likely to lead to the wrong conclusions about it.
What did youse think?
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