This movie was great, so powerful and clever! But it mostly showed the effects of war. If you want to understand the reason behind most war and the relation between capitalism and war, then please watch a documentary called "Why we fight". Probably the best documentary I have ever seen.
Peace!
Try seeing the REAL 'why we fight', by Frank Capra. Much better than the marxist-inspired combination of conspiracy theory and econnomic determinism that makes up the doc. you mention.
shareSo watch a World War II propaganda film intended to recruit as many people to the war as possible, instead of a modern, more intelligent and thoughtful look at the subject? Great idea!
I've seen both films, and while I do value Capra's series as a historical document, and a fine piece of filmmaking - there's no doubting that the modern film is a far more nuanced, intelligent, and unbiased piece.
It amazes me that, to this day, leftists try to make themselves feel good for promoting Communism and enabling the massacre of millions of South Vietnamese by the Khmer Rouge.
Peace my ass.
Huh?! The Khmer Rouge killed Cambodians, not the South Vietnamese (not to say that they didn't fight against the Vietnamese, but the massacre was of the Cambodians).
Btw: The American government backed the Khmer Rouge, and even after the atrocities, sheltered them.
I live in Cambodia.
The Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia thanks to the help of the North Vietnamese army. The fact that the two fought over territory later on doesn't diminish this fact. The U.S. never helped the Khmer Rouge. That's an idiotic claim made by leftists like Noam Chomsky to deflect attention from the fact that they supported the Khmer Rouge until their horrendous crimes were made so public that they had to disown them.
shareIt amazes me that, to this day, leftists try to make themselves feel good for promoting Communism and enabling the massacre of millions of South Vietnamese by the Khmer Rouge.You're a jackass. You're talking about things you know nothing about. The Khmer Rouge was CAMBODIAN, you idiot. And by the way, it was the US that supported the Khmer Rouge after it came to power, while it was shunned by the entire communist world. All the Cambodian communists defected from the Khmer Rouge after it came to power and Pol Pot started his atrocities, and the communists went into exile in Vietnam to form an opposition. It was COMMUNIST VIETNAM and its COMMUNIST CAMBODIAN ALLIES that overthrew the Khmer Rouge in 1979, to the applause of the ENTIRE communist world, while the capitalist countries of the US, Japan, Britain, West Germany, Australia and Thailand continued to support the Khmer Rouge for the next decade. The Western capitalist countries punished Vietnam for overthrowing the Khmer Rouge by tightening their economic blockade on Vietnam and giving Deng Xiaoping's capitalist China the green light to invade Vietnam as punishment for liberating Cambodia.
You're a jackass. You're talking about things you know nothing about.
I've noticed lately an influx of Republican/Fox News oriented posters who are trying to attack film lovers and film critics on this site. Try not to call them names but lets expose them for who they are. I've been posting on this site for nearly a decade. I can smell a rat when I see how they've just joined to make a few comments here and there; usually destructive ones.
shareThanks for reminding me to see that film. I've been meaning to do so for a long time but I keep forgetting.
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