28-01-2013, 09:28 PM
Keith - threads such as this, with the give and take of judgements honestly made, justify the existence of DPF.
I'd heard of that documentary but never seen it before.
It's classic documentary making - sparse or no commentary, told through the juxtaposition of authentic voices, imagery, sound, bloody colour.
I take your points about Col Patton.
Your words have resonance: "This documentary is the most effective anti-war film I've ever seen,and it accomplishes this fact through it's graphic scenes of violence and destruction(physical and moral)."
I'd heard of that documentary but never seen it before.
It's classic documentary making - sparse or no commentary, told through the juxtaposition of authentic voices, imagery, sound, bloody colour.
I take your points about Col Patton.
Your words have resonance: "This documentary is the most effective anti-war film I've ever seen,and it accomplishes this fact through it's graphic scenes of violence and destruction(physical and moral)."
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war