The Arts
The Right just looooovvvves a movie shot for ten cents and starring people you've never heard of. Why does the Right love it? Naturally because it covers a Red State subject and supposedly raises a movie into the our soldiers are not war criminals class. The Raid, a story about the 1945 raid behind Japanese lines that rescued 500 nearly starved U.S. prisoners in the Cabanatuan Japanese POW camp in the Phillippines, should have been told before and has been (Great Excape and so on). The movie we get now has penny ante special effects, primitive photography, and color balance that makes most scenes all brown. This is the PC story for the Right and is getting good, not great, reviews from all the Lefties who write reviews. Naturally we will be spared scenes of the Japanese eating prisoners alive, Japanese using prisoners for bayonet practice, prisoners having gasoline dumped over them and set on fire to much laughter from the Japanese guards. In short we will not see any scene that might show us why the Atomic Bomb was dropped. Miramax doesn't want to offend the wonderful people who ate our soldiers alive when it suited them, raped 80,000 women in Nanking, and tossed babies into the air and let them land on their bayonets; telling us stuff like that is "bad for business." The Raid, R rated because we don't want kids to know our soldiers are terrific people, is a great tale told as cheaply as possible and done as well as cash limitations can allow. I hate to tell you this, but you might want to wait til it goes to video. Compared to battle scenes in the latest Hollywood offerings, this is bland bland stuff. Oh and there is a romantic interest tossed in that is absurd.