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"I am still today a solider, and only a solider."
Who said that? No, really, pretend that you're in school, and that this is a pop quiz. Who said that?
Was it, Clint Eastwood? (Imagine him saying it.) "I am still today a soldier, and only a soldier."
Was it, Brad Pitt? (Imagine him saying it.) "I am still today a soldier, and only a soldier."
Was it, Hugo Weaving? (Imagine him saying it.) "I am still today a soldier, and only a soldier."
Was it.... Peter Jackson? (Imagine him saying it to one of his personal aides, as a joke.) "I am still today a soldier, and only a soldier."
But, actually, it was Ernst Roehm, the German fascist.
Whoops. Sounded kinda like a clever action movie line, until I put it like that, didn't it.
But, you know-- they were all white. What would it sound like if a *black* man said it....
Yes, indeed.
Maybe when a man glorifies assassins, he is also an assassin.
Isn't that the *bloody point* of a piece of art like this?
And all you people trying to mindlessly bully me-- well, it hasn't convinced me that you're not a brownshirt, so.
You are a fascist when all you know is violence, when you are still a killer, and only a killer-- and when that is all that you're ever going to be. And, eventually, you turn into an animal-- like Hannibal Lector.
If you are a man, and not an animal, then how can you not treat other men as people?
Isn't that the point, of something like this?
And you are healed from it, only when you stop taking joy from the blood.
Not when you snarl at someone for speaking the truth, piling up evidences against yourselves-- more evidences, still.
It is hard to give a piece of art like this a definite rating, the way that I normally do-- and I always try to be very definite and precise about the rating, the ranking.... and just because some people don't notice this, doesn't mean that it's not true.
And perhaps the only really meaningful description I can give of it-- although the usual tags that I use, this time, 'Drama', and 'Drama: War', (you see: 'war' is a kind of 'drama', and, therefore, a sub-heading beneath it? You give people technical descriptions, and that is too technical, you talk to them about themes and characters, and that is not technical enough-- well, maybe it is because all that satisfies them is *blood*, and nothing else!)-- is 'anti-fascist'.
Some things are anti-fascist, and others are.... casting for Schnicklgruber, basically.
So, that is my perspective on something like this.
I mean, I know how much I didn't like watching it, but, then-- there's the truth of it.
