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In reply to the discussion: Peter Jackson's Cartoon War Sanitized images like these are war pornography. That they are no longe [View all]MicaelS
(8,747 posts)37. Wow, you must be ill quit a bit.
Given the fact that quite a few movies are about some sort of armed human conflict.
We did not become the dominant lifeform on the planet, but being meek and mild, sitting in the shade, snacking on nuts and berries. We got it by being the meanest, toughest, roughest SOBs this planet has ever seen. You, like the rest of humanity would not be here if we had not.
To quote Star Trek: "We are a race of killers. All we can say is, we will not kill today."
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Peter Jackson's Cartoon War Sanitized images like these are war pornography. That they are no longe [View all]
niyad
Feb 2019
OP
the glorification of war in all its many iterations makes me ill. and war porn it definitely is.
niyad
Feb 2019
#7
On the contrary - Hedges demands that WW1 films do not remember the soldiers
muriel_volestrangler
Feb 2019
#22
And yet, you recommend the essay that reduces the "victims" in that way
muriel_volestrangler
Feb 2019
#38
please show me where I tried to define the experience for everyone. I certainly know
niyad
Feb 2019
#92
restored images are just restored images. its the editorial content surrounding the images
msongs
Feb 2019
#14
That was how I saw it, too. It was far more about how the soldiers saw it than Hedges's tirade
muriel_volestrangler
Feb 2019
#21
He's trying too hard. I get the feeling this is more about (re)establishing his own "creds"...
NurseJackie
Feb 2019
#26
Tolkien wrote LOTR because of the trauma of WWI. I guess Jackson does not "get" Tolkien after all.
McCamy Taylor
Feb 2019
#67