Invisible contracts by george mercier pdf
A favourite for multiple Oscars, her film is “better than any documentary I’ve seen on the Iraq war. Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker is in this tradition. And when the notion of psychopaths as heroes wears thin, the bloodbath becomes an “American tragedy” with a soundtrack of pure angst. These are not wars, but the export of a gunaddicted, homicidal “culture”. I use the word murder advisedly, because what Hollywood does brilliantly is suppress the truth about America’s assaults. The Vietnamese were “gooks” and “Indians” whose industrial murder was preordained in John Wayne movies and sent back to Hollywood to glamourise or redeem. I only fully understood the power of the con when I was sent to Vietnam as a war reporter. Self-regarding distortions present the nobility of the American colonial aggressor as a cover for massacre, from the Philippines to Iraq.
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When will directors and writers behave like artists and not pimps for a world view devoted to control and destruction? I grew up on the movie myth of the Wild West, which was harmless enough unless you happened to be a native American. The dominant theme is as old as Hollywood: America’s divine right to invade other societies, steal their history and occupy our memory.
Nominations are a parade of propaganda, stereotypes and downright dishonesty. Febru"Information "Information Clearing House" House" -Why are so many films so bad? This year’s Oscar