Is it anti war?
I’m suspicious
Hollywood loves it and treats it as his penance as a Drunken Jew Hater born to a Jew Hater in the past
Gibson that is
Everyone of any decency is anti war in theory
But the left is anti war today if that war preserves traditional America the west or What’s left of Christendom
Some wars the left adores
Gibson is great at war movies
Apocalypto is incredible and gory as hell
Braveheart of course
It’s a war movie about a man who refuses to kill for his country but saves the wounded
And it inspires folks
So where am I wrong?
I prefer my heroes more like Basilone or Murphy or Nathaniel Poe
Course York started out CO in principle but boy did he ever change course
It does show that there were people who could have qualified for CO status but "seen their duty and done it".
Such people deserve to be lauded for their service because they had an out and did not take it.
Do I agree with their stance? No.
Irrelevant currently.
They did what they could in every way that they felt they could.
Mel Gibson’s dad Hutton moved the family from America to Australia to keep his eldest son from being drafted for Vietnam. So there may be an anti war streak in Mel courtesy of his dad’s influence. But Hutton was no conscientious objector, he had been a First Lt during WWII, wounded at Guadalcanal.