Mickey Z

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Wednesday, November 01, 2006

The Forgiven: Clint Eastwood's Good War

In the midst of our current, perpetual war against evil, America is yet again reflecting upon the “good war.” If Clint Eastwood is allowed to recycle those images in Flags of Our Fathers, as the author of an alternative history of WWII, why shouldn’t I state my case yet again?

Films like Flags of Our Fathers and Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan teach us that even if war is hell and the good guys sometimes lose their way, there is still no reason to question either the morality of the mission or the stature of that particular generation.

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