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Platoon 1986
"I didn't sign up to kill women or any children. For every enemy soldier we killing six civilians. And that ain't right to me. I ain't got enough of motherfucking fight in me. It frightens me."
"Bitches and guns, this is every man's dream, I don't wanna go home where I'm just an ordinary human being."
-Jedi Mind Tricks
Impossible to not observe the cycle of colonialist violence on display in Oliver Stone's Vietnam epic, from occupation to guerrilla warfare…
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Zulu 1964
No matter how anti-colonial your values are going into Zulu, it's near-impossible not to be moved by the last few exhausted, besieged British troops breaking into a rousing rendition of Welsh war song Men of Harlech as a vast, final wave of warriors descends on them. But this isn't just a hagiographic exercise in British Empire nostalgia and rehabilitation, even though it might appear that way on the surface. After the climax, the camera lingers on the mountain of Zulu…
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Civil War 2024
Civil War is very competently directed, looks great, very nice cast, and seeing America get completely wrecked is just viscerally satisfying on some level. But it suffers greatly from trying desperately and ultimately failing to be Important. What is the point of any of this? America is polarized. War is hell. Orange Man Bad. Journalists are the true heroes. The contradictions have never been more heightened and Civil War has nothing interesting to say about any of them.
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Leave the World Behind 2023
A pretty great cast, some competent suspenseful sequences, a few interesting visual flourishes — DOP Tod Campbell was doing some stuff — all in service of a story populated by unlikable characters that ultimately promotes a nihilistic and reactionary worldview. "People bad" is a rallying cry for Western liberal narcissists who recognize on some level that the systems and institutions they cherish so much have completely failed, bringing us to the brink of ruin, but are too cowardly to confront this in any real way.
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