02-07-2018, 06:36 PM
Hanks has always thought that somehow the Apollo mission was the greatest achievement of America in the 20th century. And that somehow it was a metaphor for what this country could do.
IMO, that is really wrong. I mean just look what happened to it.
Meanwhile America was still dropping tons of bombs over Indochina well into the seventies. And then we were supposed to forget what we had done when Saigon fell.
1968 was the premature death of the sixties. Once King and RFK were killed, that was it. I mean it was over. The Rightwing decided: hey the JFK hit worked. Let's play some more hardball. They did and it worked again--twice. And this time they didn't have to kill the patsies.
And we got the anti RFK, Dick Nixon.
It was a horrible tragedy. Hanks' film does not begin to tell the story. IT would take an Adam Curtis to do it.
IMO, that is really wrong. I mean just look what happened to it.
Meanwhile America was still dropping tons of bombs over Indochina well into the seventies. And then we were supposed to forget what we had done when Saigon fell.
1968 was the premature death of the sixties. Once King and RFK were killed, that was it. I mean it was over. The Rightwing decided: hey the JFK hit worked. Let's play some more hardball. They did and it worked again--twice. And this time they didn't have to kill the patsies.
And we got the anti RFK, Dick Nixon.
It was a horrible tragedy. Hanks' film does not begin to tell the story. IT would take an Adam Curtis to do it.