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The biggest catch-22 of all regarding the book and movie


You cannot write and make an anti-war movie without showing a war.

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That was a Truffaut saying, that you can't make an anti-war movie without making war look awesome

Ebert quoted it in his review of "Platoon," a film he believed disproved Truffaut's point

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