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In Reply to: Why do all of the recent good films have left-wing themes? posted by mkuller on January 18, 2006 at 10:05:03:
Don't you write those nice reviews in Tas? Or are you someone else?Most of these movies seem like "human" stories to me. I find this kind of reductionist thinking a bit puzzling.
Lets take GN&GL for example. I don't think Joe McCarthy has many true defenders these days even on the right. Moreover, that film is really about a crisis of conscience by the media: the media's failure to ask tough questions and provide quality reporting about anybody - left, right or center - and the dangers of ignoring such failure.
Since when are drugs and infidelity the sole territory of "liberals"? How do you get more conservative than classic country singers?
Homosexuality is a human condition - I know both liberal and conservative gay people.
Constant Gardner, although it certainly uses the background of wrongdoing by a big drug-maker, is actually about the individual journey the Ralph Fiennes character takes in discovering the sould and identity of his late wife - and the personal redemption he find in finally truly "knowing" her. BTW, if you aren't aware of the drug testing scandals that have occured in the past in Africa, you haven't been paying much attention.
Syriana, yup, I grant you, that one takes some well aimed pot shots at the policies and conduct of the current administration, which richly deserves them. But poor intelligence, culture clash, corporate greed and short-sighted U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East is hardly the sole preserve of the right wing. It's been a long road to hell...although Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz et al certainly hit a new low in these areas as far as I'm concerned.
I don't consider myself a liberal (whatever the hell that is), but the right has moved so far to the extreme that I'm ashamed to call myself a conservative anymore.
I just like good movies, dincha know.
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Follow Ups
- Erm...is this a trick question? - Harmonia 17:05:26 01/18/06 (1)
- "I just like good movies, dincha know. " No one knows what that means any more - Victor Khomenko 17:36:19 01/18/06 (0)
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