All violence is equal, but some violence is more equal than others
Bookworm on Jun 26 2009 | Filed under: Anti-war, Media matters
Movie review one:
The movie is a viscerally exciting, adrenaline-soaked tour de force of suspense and surprise, full of explosions and hectic scenes of combat, but it blows a hole in the condescending assumption that such effects are just empty spectacle or mindless noise.
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Ms. Bigelow, practicing a kind of hyperbolic realism, distills the psychological essence and [...]
