[lbo-talk] Moses writes to the editor
Sean Andrews
cultstud76 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 9 11:06:41 PDT 2008
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Dennis Perrin <dperrin at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> It humanized perhaps the most demonized enemy the U.S. ever fought. You have
> to watch "Letters" in tandem with "Flags Of Our Fathers," another Eastwood
> gem. That these critiques of the Good War came from a Hollywood conservative
> adds to their allure.
I thought that Eastwood went a long way towards self critique--or at
least a revision of the "Dirty Harry" position--with "Mystic River."
In this, I don't know if he would see it that way, but it is nice to
see someone at his age still capable of maturing further.
s
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