[lbo-talk] Hurt Locker

[Max Sawicky]

Conservatives claim Hurt Locker as their movie and pwogs claim Avatar
as theirs and they are both full of sh*t (in this case the right a bit
more than the left).  I've already vented about Avatar's great white
dude Walt Disney rescue motif.  Re: Hurt Locker, there are no images
of Iraqi social progress in the film, let alone any that can be traced
to the U.S. war effort.  In fact, in the film there is no image
attesting to the progress of the war effort itself, even narrowly
construed.  Any efforts by the film's sponsors or detractors to
suggest the film is an exercise in exalting the American soldier is
either self-protective hype or thin propaganda, respectively.

U.S. political discourse is so inane that both sides grasp at straws
to fuel their continuing inanity.

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Matthias Wasser
<matthias.wasser at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Marv Gandall <marvgandall at videotron.ca>wrote:
>
>> For all these reasons I named it as one of the top 10 conservative movies
>> of the last decade.
>>
>
> Conservatives really like to do this sort of thing, and it doesn't seem like
> anybody else does. Why?
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