> I just wanted to note that Lila Lipscomb had nowhere near the impact on
> me of the Iraqi matriarch. If Lila is learning that kind of anger,
> though, then maybe it was a juxtaposition that was placed there ...
>
> Martin
Cf. the two scenes in Hearts and Minds the great documentary on the Vietnam War that won an Oscar in '75 or '76. General Wastemoreland (sic.) on his South Carolina spread 'sez, , "Asians don't value life in the same way we Westerners do." Followed by a scene of a Vietnamese mother grieving trying to climb into the coffin of her dead Son. http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s539heart.html -- Michael Pugliese