October 26, 2006

War is Love....War is Porn

A fascinating review of Clint Eastwood's latest, Flag of Our Fathers at beliefnet.com.

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/202/story_20234_2.html

I haven't yet seen the film, but the trailers I've seen on prime-time TV make it seem that this is another shallow glorification of the Greatest Generation's sacrifices.  Robert Nylan, the reviewer, and a veteran, seems to think this film transcends such ultimately damaging pap by "telling it like it is."

But the line from the review that makes me want to see the film is: 

"Maybe there's no such thing as an anti-war movie. On some basic level, it's all war porn." 

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