The Great Raid
Maybe this will be the one non-family-film I get out to see this summer.
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Stewdog saw it yesterday. It was good. Agree it had some flaws, but it was on old fashioned movie about an important historical event. I wished that Hollywood made more of them.
Just read the Powerline article. Frankly one of the criticisms that I had of the film is that is soft pedaled the cruelty and visciousness of the Japanese Military. There wasn't a beheading in the entire film. My father's ship, a seaplane tender, lost some pilots to the blade. And if there is any doubt about the atrocities committed by the Japanese, read The Rape Of Nanking.
(Lest we forget)
That's interesting, Stewdog. I have no proof of this theory, but I have an idea that while most high school (and even college) graduates would be able to cite the injustices perpetrated by the U.S. against Japanese-American citizens in WW2, very few would be aware of the brutality with which the Japanese abused and slaughtered both POW's and the civilian populations they conquered during the war. [And, for God's sake, NO THAT DOESN'T MEAN I THINK THE INTERNMENT OF JAPANESE AMERICANS WAS OKAY, JUST TO HEAD MADMAN OFF AT THE PASS.]
Whe I look at that issue in my 2005 glasses, it was obviously wrong. But I refuse to judge the US Government on the internment issue because I wasn't alive at the time.
Just wondering. How about a movie in which there was no internment and Japanese agents successfully engage in sabotage that turns the tide of the war.
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