[HipShot]

How can you POSSIBLY equate that with President Bush? The commune is at least 20 years old anyway, maybe more.

This is lame. This is pathetic. The only "disaffection" was actually about personal experiences with violent crime.

So we have a thread based on someone's speculation.

I speculate that it's really a metaphor for Kerry's Vietnam experience. Did you know he was in Vietnam?

[Behind Liberal Lines]

How can you POSSIBLY equate that with President Bush? The commune is at least 20 years old anyway, maybe more.

Hey, I'm just reporting what SOME people have said. I'm not making the same claim. In fact, as I told another poster a Republican friend loved the movie because she saw it as bashing hippies.

[RoseofTexas]

NOPE! In one of the scene when one of the villagers goes out to get medicine for her fiance, she runs into this park ranger who helps her get the medicine, anyway he sneaks into the office to retrieve some antibiotics and you can clearly hear in the background the radio News commenting along the lines..."16 soldiers were Ambushed in Iraq today...blah, blah"! Political...YOU BET!

[EggsAckley]

I don't buy the idea of Bush-bashing either. The film was IMO dull and unimaginative. I had figured out the ending in the first 15 minutes. While the production, camera work, and music was spectacular, I still kept waiting for the film to "start." Right up to the end. It's a flop.

[BurbankKarl]

actually, there was a blurb in the movie about "30 more troops died in a convoy" or something to that affect on the radio in the security office...

[No Surrender No Retreat]

Yes, Kerry took on a whole VC regiment single-handed and destroyed them. Kerry was actually a Ninja in the Nam, his name(Hidden Faggot). Bush/Cheney 2004