Ok, this thought ive had for some time that i'm just now voicing is probably going to get me flamed 9 ways to sunday but.....
Has anyone else found the whole "Red dawn" cliche a bit on the .. uhh. i don't know. i can't find the word for it. Hypocrisy maybe?
The thing is, we as a culture, fancy ourselves as the oppressed freedom fighters. We like to root for the underdog going against the giant juggernaught. David and Gloiath, insert whatever metaphore you want here. I think it goes back to our colonial roots against the British. Fighting a gurella war against a large occuping power. And boy oh boy, do we like to portray ourselve as all these things in the movies or watch them in some form or another don't we?
"Wolverines!!!!"
I can't be the only one who's paused for a moment, and thought that gurella freedom fighters of the oppressed, is what some of the ahh.. groups of ragheads in the middle east think of themselves as? I guess the problem i have with portrayals like red dawn, is we are NOT the little guy. We haven't been for some time, and the irony is, in portrays like that, we cast ourselves in the same role as the groups in the middle east that we're currently fighting, at least by their view. I enjoy the movie and the storyline of an occupied US (i will be buying homefront eventually. :P ), but the ignorance and stupidty of them is not lost on me.
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