I’m no troll.
I’ve had my kids watching the 2nd season of 24, ‘Band of Brothers’, all except the 9th disc, ‘Apollo 13” the Marx brothers, the Thin Man, ‘Shooter’, and I have shown much of these to my ninth grade lit class.
And they go yearly to the POW symposium where the former residents of the Hanoi Hilton come and tell their stories, and we serve them lunch.
Kids want details. They want motivation, purpose, theme, honesty, if they’re not busy with Will Ferell comedy, Korean soap operas, Greg Gutfeld’s take on world affairs, video games, sports, eating, texting.
They have no time for anything else.
Kids will not like this film. And they would love Zam’s story, and they would get a lot out of it. But they’re not getting Zam’s story in this film. The Coen bros portray his entire motivation as eating pasta. Which it is not. Kids are not going to read the book.
No one ever said every conservative was a brainiac.