It was interesting to me that any hint of the idea of isolationism was called poison. This is very definitely a propoganda movie to keep everyone believing in the war effort. That is completely understandable in a movie made then but in reality there were many shades of opinion about the war and what would happen after it. Predicting nations would go at each other after WWII as they had after WWI wasn't far fetched and in fact came true. While we got the UN we also got the Cold War. That shows that nuanced views of the future were far more accurate and insightful. In fact, even a cursory examination of what our Communist allies were doing would give anyone pause by 1945.
I enjoyed the WWII ending which would have been totally different after the war when the propoganda was that women should be in the home not the workplace. That was to give the returning men back their jobs and not incidentally create the kind of nation that was imagined to be preferable to anything they had known before--suburbs, nuclear families, mobility, consumerism. Hollywood is a powerful force for societal conformity.
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