09-01-2005, 01:05 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-01-2005, 01:16 PM by Rhydderch Hael.)
jahcs,Aug 31 2005, 09:17 PM Wrote:... There was the enemy and there were civilians. ...Aye, that's the cut: where were the civilians? In Black Hawk Down, we saw nothing but combatants. A city chock full of enemy combatants. The innocent civilian population? Virtually nonexistent in the film. The Americans were rolling through the streets, and every single native that popped up into view was an enemy to be fired upon. It was "us versus them" with a total absence of non-combatants caught in between. No true element of human tragedy displayed. Just intense wartime action sequences where the only suffering is of the physical body by combat injury. No indications of the emotional and spiritual suffering wrought by irrational hate that spurs these wars in the first place.
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And "'...backdrop to the true story"?
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