BabyHeadCrab
The Freeman
- Joined
- Dec 2, 2003
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...I really don't know what the hell to think about this one. It was more of a biopic about a crazy red-haired woman on an obsessive goal that she was willing to forgo morals to achieve. Of course the grand message here is that it was quite literally crazy the amount of money, manpower and emotional investment the United States as a nation put into finding one man.
I do understand, however, the uneducated seeing it as anti-arab or anti-muslim. I also understand folks saying it's ham-fisted or heavy handed in it's CRITICISM of the United States. I fit more into the later camp. I feel it's not subtle about that at all.
The movie quite objectively does not advocate torture or racism, as some would have you believe about in their blogs. There are some mildly offensive lingual and cultural inconsistencies in regards to Pakistani culture but it stops there.
The film takes a full stop in being a criticism of the United States, and takes an equally drastic stop at being a pro-American pep rally. That leaves us with what the movie does right: making an interesting talking point and giving us an animated character. I'm just not sure the intelligence chase was all that enthralling. I found myself twirling my straw wrapper from time to time and almost laughing at how personal they made every Al-Qaeda based attack seem to the central characters.
As a biopic of a troubled and complex woman, and as an action film for the final ~30minutes or so the film certainly succeeds, otherwise it's a bit of a controversial yet often intriguing mess. What are your thoughts?
I do understand, however, the uneducated seeing it as anti-arab or anti-muslim. I also understand folks saying it's ham-fisted or heavy handed in it's CRITICISM of the United States. I fit more into the later camp. I feel it's not subtle about that at all.
The movie quite objectively does not advocate torture or racism, as some would have you believe about in their blogs. There are some mildly offensive lingual and cultural inconsistencies in regards to Pakistani culture but it stops there.
The film takes a full stop in being a criticism of the United States, and takes an equally drastic stop at being a pro-American pep rally. That leaves us with what the movie does right: making an interesting talking point and giving us an animated character. I'm just not sure the intelligence chase was all that enthralling. I found myself twirling my straw wrapper from time to time and almost laughing at how personal they made every Al-Qaeda based attack seem to the central characters.
As a biopic of a troubled and complex woman, and as an action film for the final ~30minutes or so the film certainly succeeds, otherwise it's a bit of a controversial yet often intriguing mess. What are your thoughts?
