The prof points us to the Mechanical Eye, who suffers the Village Voice long enough to read their review of Joe Dante’s latest oeuvre:
“This is a horror story because most of the characters are Republicans,” director Joe Dante announced before the November 13 world premiere of his latest movie, Homecoming, at the Turin Film Festival. Republicans, as it happens, will be the ones who find Homecoming’s agitprop premise scariest: In an election year, dead veterans of the current conflict crawl out of their graves and stagger single-mindedly to voting booths so they can eject the president who sent them to fight a war sold on “horseshit and elbow grease.”
At once galvanic and cathartic, Dante’s film uncorks the rage that despondent progressives promptly suppressed after last year’s election and that has only recently been allowed to color mainstream coverage of presidential untruths and debacles. For all its broad, bludgeoning satire, Homecoming is deadly accurate in skewering the callousness and hypocrisy of the Bush White House and the spin industry in its orbit.
Did ya’ll catch all of that suppressed progressive rage, post-election? ‘Cause I must have missed it.
The suppression part, anyway.
More there. Read it all.
Update: I had something very close to a guilt attack, because I’d received a comment on this post from notorious troll “Victorino de la Vega,” a small, mean, petty racist whom I’d banned several weeks ago. The comment itself was only thoroughly objectionable, and had none of the Judenrein which got him bounced last time, so I felt a momentary pang of concern about free speech ethics and all that. But I’ve been seeing him drop in and foist the same madness over at Jeff Goldstein’s place, where the owner and his friends are well-equipped to reduce such arguments to their essential lunacies. My point is that ol’ Vik clearly hasn’t learned any manners, and something there was that warned me about inviting vampires across thresholds, so he’s still banned and that’s that.
If you’re really curious, the Vikster cut and pasted the same comment over at the Mechanical Eye posting, as well as at Rand Simberg’s blog, apparently. Because I suppose, he found it SO DAMNED CLEVER!
Vik – just so you know: You’re wasting your time over here. Troll elsewhere.
And no, I don’t feel one damned bit guilty about it.
Grady Hendrix, Media Zomby
Face it, for Grady, mocking the stick figure portrayal of the American soldier he sees in the media is a way of making a living. You don’t really expect him to get to know a soldier, do you? Certainly you wouldn’t expect him to find out what kind of …
Is this the same Dante who wrote “Innuendo”?
Or was it “inconceiveable”?
Or was it “insignificant”?
Or maybe “infantile”?
Jes askin’
“If yer nose don’t hike—you ain’t shit”
Umm…Lex? No guilt for trolls, M’kay? My view on my blog is… its my blog. There are certain things I just will not tolerate and one of them is boorish behavior, of which, I, the owner of the blog, define. If people are rude to me about my post… I’ll ban their asses. Period. No questions.
Freedom of speech… they can start their own damn blog.
No guilt. Not even a pang. And for the record, I’ve had to ban one.