“All Vietnam films were pro-war, no matter what the supposed message, what Kubrick or Coppola or Stone intended … [They] watch the same films and are excited by them, because the magic brutality of the films celebrates the terrible and despicable beauty of their fighting skills ... Fight, rape, war, pillage, burn. Filmic images of death and carnage are pornography for the military man.”
from a novel by Tony Swofford,
based on his own experiences [ellipted]
The reviewer then moves seamlessly from this subtle lw deconstruction into statements implying a rw reality!
- it implies there are lots of exciting, honorable battles going on in Iraq that could have been put into the movie
- it compares the movie to bad sex
