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Friday, Nov 6, 2009
I usually enjoy Stephanie's reviews - even when I disagree vehemently with them (as I did, for example with Superman Returns) I respect her reasoning.
However, one particular line in this review stopped me short -
"But if movies about 9/11 have to be made at all -- and no one has yet answered the question, for me, at least, of why we should need or want them just yet"
You know what, I haven't heard a convincing argument why movies about 9/11 should NOT be made, that doesn't sound like hypocritical American insularism. It was five years ago - there were films made about other 20th century disasters and wars while they were going on, or in the immediate aftermath. Why should 9/11 get special treatment? To me, its just another example of American chauvinism - their culture will happily leech off the tragedies of other countries but agonise over their own. Either grow a spine about the whole thing or don't watch.
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
Even when government officials purposely subject an innocent person to brutal torture, they enjoy full immunity.
The Maine fight was supposed to be the dress rehearsal for repealing California's Prop. 8 -- but gay marriage lost
Once one obtains Seriousness credentials in the Washington media, they are irrevocable no matter one's conduct.
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