It's not about America, part deux.

I saw a movie about young, naive kids embracing romatic, revolutionary ideas.

This is what I rememeber:
- It's about young people who don't fit into normal society, whether by ability or choice.
- They want to change the world for the better.
- They find the tools for this, but are more interested in the cool image they provide, than in actually using them as intended.
- By dressing as dandies they give away that they are more in love with the idea of being seen as someone who are changing the world, than in actually changing it. They talk. They don't do anything that actually matters.
- Contemporary society accepts a ghostly mirage of what these kids portray themselves as, rather than what they actually are. This leads to nothing good, for to paraphrase one of the officers: "Your guns are puny compared to ours. Stand down or be annihilated."


I do not see the movie as anti-american at all, but rather as a devastating critique of certain fringes inability to *think* and *do*, not just in generation X, but in every generation. Young people who not grow up and act as sensible adults, but as little kids playing games, which scares the adults who are not always as sensible as they ought to be.