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Based on this review alone<\/a>, though watching the previews and knowing a bit of the history, I was already looking forward to it. \u00a0A movie that portrays faith and patriotism well, and the Japanese as brutal and sadistic? \u00a0Wow. \u00a0You don\u2019t see that much anymore. \u00a0Especially since the focus of America\u2019s contributions to WWII \u2013 when the emphasis isn\u2019t on it being a vast conspiracy set off by the American Military Industrial Machine \u2013 is typically the A-Bombs, Dresden, our antisemitism, and the Japanese internment camps.<\/p>\n

BTW, on the same note, my son got my wife and me the movie Argo<\/i>. Ben Affleck turned in a wonderful performance and did quite a job in the director\u2019s seat as well. \u00a0But more stunning was the fact that the Iranians were actually portrayed pretty savagely, while acknowledging that some of our policies were to blame. \u00a0But the really jaw-dropping part? \u00a0The CIA actually comes off looking sort of good. \u00a0Almost like heroes. \u00a0That\u2019s like a movie that portrays the Gestapo in a good light.<\/p>\n

I always enjoy it when a Hollywood production bucks the liberal\/post-modern trend. \u00a0I remember when Red Dawn<\/i> was released in 1984. \u00a0It was almost surreal. \u00a0Not because of the implausibility of the scenario. \u00a0But because it actually made the Communists look like bad guys and more shockingly the US as the good guys. \u00a0Like my boys said when they recently discovered old reruns of the 60s farcical comedy series Hogan\u2019s Heroes<\/i>; the difference between Hogan\u2019s Heroes<\/i> and MASH<\/i>? \u00a0Hogan\u2019s Heroes<\/i> never forgot who the bad guys were.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a nice reminder, especially for Internet Catholics, who can sometimes feel righteous for proclaiming\u00a0the eternally irredeemable evil of America as part of sacred confession<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"