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Date Posted: Wednesday, May 30, 06:52:39am
Author: M's nemesis
Subject: This explains the problem with your country to a T

Amid the horror of war, Spielberg seems to be trying to rediscover American innocence, that Holy Grail that existed only in the Rousseau-esque imagination yet was virtually incorporated into the constitution. Spielberg, like other Hollywood directors of the time, came from a generation scarred by the moral quagmire of Vietnam. He understood the national need, in the post-cold war chaos, to reach back to more certain times, seeking reassurance from that moment in history – the second world war – when the fight seemed unequivocally right. “Tell me I’ve led a good life,” says the weeping veteran in the cemetery to his wife. “Tell me I’m a good man.”

“You are,” she replies, and the music begins to swell, with drum beats and trumpets. This representative of American motherhood appears to be reassuring the US as a whole. She seems to be speaking to a nation unable at that time to come to terms with its role in a disordered world, to a nation that, for all its power, can be bewilderingly naive abroad because it so badly needs to feel good about itself at home.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/may/29/antony-beevor-the-greatest-war-movie-ever-and-the-ones-i-cant-bear
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You never had an age of innocence eventhough you seem obsessed with harking back to it.

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Seems to me that Americans show up late for world wars -- Hugh, Thursday, May 31, 05:55:44am
- Re: Seems to me that Americans show up late for world wars -- M's nemesis, Thursday, May 31, 02:49:11pm
  - Re: Seems to me that Americans show up late for world wars -- M's nemesis, Thursday, May 31, 02:51:59pm
  - You're wrong again, M -- Hugh, Friday, June 01, 08:05:43am
    - And you're wrong again -- M's nemesis, Friday, June 01, 10:11:28am
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        Ask the English girls how they like being raped. -- Hugh, Wednesday, June 06, 05:29:07am
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        Brownies breed like rabbits and flies -- Hugh, Tuesday, June 12, 07:28:40am
        Eurotrash -- M's nemesis, Friday, June 15, 03:44:08am
        You've sold your souls to political correctness -- Hugh, Friday, June 15, 06:14:41am
        Re: You've sold your souls to political correctness -- M's nemesis, Thursday, June 21, 01:04:27pm
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        Errata: change through under the bus to thrown under the bus (NT) -- Hugh, Saturday, June 23, 07:22:28am