Sounds like more HOLLYWOOD CR@P and another reason to avoid movies like a plague...
The movie Henry Poole is Here did have a lot of interesting stuff that Christians might like...
I don't think one should expect that from Spike Lee.
Maybe it is film that OBAMA might praise for being BLACK enough...
The movie sounds like it might appeal to Christians, i.e., miracle and St Anna but is an R rated film...
Miracle of Sant’Anna: Rewriting history?
In 1944, stormtroopers poured into Sant’Anna di Stazzema, killing everyone in sight. A Spike Lee film will document the atrocity – but some survivors think he is rewriting history
By Peter Popham
Friday, 9 November 2007
When six Nazi SS officers were sentenced to life in 2005 for the massacre of Sant’Anna di Stazzema, it was the first moment of catharsis the village had enjoyed since the day in August 1944 when four columns of Nazi stormtroopers poured down from the hills and slaughtered everyone in sight, including dozens of women and children.
But this week even that small dose of justice – the SS men were tried in absentia – was threatened when Italy’s senior prosecutor argued in its highest court, the Court of Cassation, that the trials were unfair and the sentences should be quashed.
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Lee is basing his film on a novel, The Miracle of Sant’Anna, by James MacBride, a black veteran of the Second World War, the story of four black GIs abandoned high in the Appenines while the Allied troops fought to drive the Germans across the so-called Gothic Line and northwards. His main aim in the film, he told journalists in Rome, was “to restore the voice of black soldiers who fought in the war. Black soldiers always fought with great courage and sacrifice for democracy; they were always distinguished by their heroism and humanity, but back home they were still considered second-class citizens.”
Spike Lee is a little rat who said the levees were dynamited during Katrina, IIRC. If for no other reason than my high blood pressure, I usually try to avoid his films.
Spite Lee does war. I haven’t seen anything by him in quite a while, but I saw bits of Son of Sam on TV a few days ago. He STILL strikes me as a film student in search of a “style.”
The important question is, why is it rated R? Remember, Passion of the Christ was rated R, yet Christians absolutely flocked to it. Saving Private Ryan was an R-rated war movie, yet it didn’t have any objectionable ‘adult content’ that I could remember, just loads of violence. If there is actually ‘adult content’, yeah I’d probably stay away from it, but I don’t mind violence or even nudity at all if it’s for purposes of historical accuracy (ie, Schindler’s List).
On a side note, anyone seen Traitor yet? It looks like it could be really interesting, but I haven’t seen enough of it to get an idea of what kind of stance the film takes on the whole Jihad idea, or if it doesn’t and it’s just an action movie.
Here was the description at Yahoo movies:
Four soldiers from the army’s Negro 92nd Division find themselves separated from their unit and behind enemy lines.
Risking their lives for a country in which they are treated with less respect than the enemy they are fighting, they discover humanity in the small Tuscan village of St. Anna di Stazzema.
There you go, America treats blacks worse than fascist Italy under Mussolini.