[TerryGale]

The only question is, will this movie find a studio to distribute it to theaters?

[Khurkris]

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[martin_fierro]

I gotta wonder where this author is coming from.

Robert Altman is commie trash. And we all know about Michael Moore.

The author cites both approvingly.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

It is, essentially, impossible in this day and age to make a film that looks at the reality of war that is pro-war.

True. It is however possible to make a film that looks at war and calls it peace. A film which shows Iraq as an idyl of bliss even as Saddam and his sons proceed apace to fill mass graves off camera.

It is impossible to make a film that looks at the reality of war that is pro-war. The Longest Day showed a great many American casualties, for example, and each one of those images is a testament to horror.

The irony is that an "anti war" director didn't think that the actual horror was sufficient; he had to add in a fiction at the end to the effect that the scaling of the cliffs had been in vain because there were no guns at the place which had been breifed as the objective.

That half-truth was a lie - in that the guns did in fact exist, were in fact nearby to the briefed objective, and were in fact knocked out by men who had scaled the cliffs.

[TigersEye]

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