Excellent call. I never thought of that. It might also be a backhanded slap at the idealism of youth that always thinks it knows more than its elders.
Shalom.
Probably a bit of that, too. Those scenes are done as rough B&W interviews made to look really old and the characters are all clearly a bit too cocky. But my main point is that the film clearly refutes those comments rather than endorsing them, which is what I'd expect in a lesser film (e.g., the incomprehensibly stupid digression in Van Helsing where the friar goes out of his way to commit adultery with a town woman for no reason reason at all, other than to prove that he's above strict Cathoic morality I suppose).