Re:The Artful Propaganda of Soviet Children’s Literature
by tptacek on Sunday June 18, 2017 @06:42AM
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In the first movie, he kills a bunch of policemen and feels he and his friends have been abandoned by the military.
In the second, the military is actively concealing the existence of live POWs in Vietnam. He ends the movie by threatening a military official.
In neither case can you reasonably call the movie "propaganda", at least not without logic that you could use to connects the dots between any movie, from Bridget Jones Diary to Being John Malkovich, to propaganda.
I'm not arguing that the movies are anti-propaganda. I'd call them neutral in that regard.
In the second, the military is actively concealing the existence of live POWs in Vietnam. He ends the movie by threatening a military official.
In neither case can you reasonably call the movie "propaganda", at least not without logic that you could use to connects the dots between any movie, from Bridget Jones Diary to Being John Malkovich, to propaganda.
I'm not arguing that the movies are anti-propaganda. I'd call them neutral in that regard.