The story here is simple: The president says he wishes the war dead would come back to life so they could tell us how important the current war is. They come back, all right, but they want to vote so they can vote for anybody who'll end the war.
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Slate says,
Homecoming is on another level of guilty pleasures, a junk-food adrenaline rush that debunks the myth of glorious war, presenting every ugly wound in gory latex detail, while having nothing but compassion for the lonely, lurching, living-dead soldiers.Dread Central says it's less horror and more political satire. DVD Talk says it "carries a very strong political message about the current state of affairs in the United States and abroad. It's a message about military action, war, and foreign policy."
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"We´re looking for a few good men"? This looks like it might be funny, in a sad kind of way.
ReplyDeletePolitical satire, definitely. And still timely, more's the shame.
DeleteI love satire, and political satire is strangely fascinating to me. Maybe because I detest war and everything it does to a country, the people who have to fight there, and the land it damages in the process.
ReplyDeleteWe seem too quick to send our young men off to die and we are much too anxious to stay ready to do it at a moment's notice.
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