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Subject: You hit the nail on the head
Date: Sep 10, 2004
I just watched "Hero". Though beautiful, it expounds a message most disturbing. Eloguence does not necessarily equate to substance. The message itself is actually confusing and contradictionary. Though the King is a tyrant, he is moved by one man, an assassin. This is as improbable as those "reality" shows.
If you inspect the film carefully, you see the word "Mao" splattered everywhere. This might have well have been a propaganda film for opressive China.
Though it is chivalrous to die for a greater cause. You need to inspect what that cause is. Think Bush and the Irag war. The "Hero" (and assasin) changes his mind on the flimsiest of logic. Would you not kill a system which has killed many? Does retaining a dictator (hence unifying a country) really mean less will die? Think Hitler.
The film-maker tries to weasel in a larger contextual idealism. Killing (or suicide) for any reason is wrong. Hence, heroism comes not in the form of violent death, but in a cathartic realism that one must stop killing to gain any idealism at all.
The flaw is that the King kills. He kills his enemies, he kills the assassin (apparently the only who understands him, no less).
Hence, the film-maker has unfortunately thrown his idealism out the window - and the film is nothing more than a pretty propaganda film.
- lotus
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truth from What's American, Sep 7, 2004
thanks from barb, Aug 28, 2004
» You hit the nail on the head « from lotus, Sep 10, 2004
Awesome from Dan Omlor, Sep 13, 2004
Re: But from skeptikos, Dec 26, 2004
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Hero from Emily, Aug 25, 2004
truth from What's American, Sep 7, 2004
thanks from barb, Aug 28, 2004
» You hit the nail on the head « from lotus, Sep 10, 2004
Awesome from Dan Omlor, Sep 13, 2004
Re: But from skeptikos, Dec 26, 2004
hero from tso t'an, Feb 21, 2005
ask from mujahid, Mar 31, 2006
Re: ask from Bubba Hotep, Apr 11, 2006
??? from Kessel, Nov 4, 2007
Bravo from tsering, May 29, 2010
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