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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]guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)70. I will try to see the movie.
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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