The Hollywood War Machine

 

公開当時はグアンタナモの真実を描き出したという部分が評価されていた覚えがあるけど、いま映画中盤から見てしまうとテロで身内を失ったCIA職員が個人的リベンジでビン・ラディンに執着し、違法手段を駆使してでも追い詰めていく物語にも見えてしまう。タイムレスになりそこねた作品かも。

— suzuky (@suzuky) April 16, 2021

たしかに、Rotten Tomatos 　なんかではそこそこの評価を得ているようだが、おれの記憶では、そんなに評判よくなかった。当時から

Mon 25 Feb 2013 
Zero Dark Thirty, the CIA and film critics have a very bad evening
Glenn Greenwald

The stigma attached to the pro-torture CIA propaganda vehicle, beloved by film critics, results in Oscar humiliation

左派の政治評論家からは問題視されていた。

同様なことは、その後のAmerican sniper でも言われていた。

Tue 6 Jan 2015 18.00
The real American Sniper was a hate-filled killer. Why are simplistic patriots treating him as a hero?
Lindy West

だいたい、ハリウッドの戦争映画は

America loves its war porn: "American Sniper" and the Hollywood propaganda machine
"Fury." "The Hurt Locker." "Black Hawk Down." All of these movies hit the same beats -- and that's a problem

By PETER VAN BUREN
FEBRUARY 21, 2015

愛国心高めたり、戦争を正当化、合理化するようなものが多い。

How Hollywood became the unofficial propaganda arm of the U.S. military

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Second World War launched Hollywood into a propaganda war that continues to this day

CBC Radio · Posted: May 11, 2020 2:30 PM ET | Last Updated: August 18, 2020

"Americans can tell the story of World War II in a way that makes them feel good about themselves. British people are the same. We love hearing stories about World War II because we like to think of ourselves as the good guys," Cull said.

"To me, there are many complexities in the story, including the treatment of Japanese Americans, for example, or the dropping of the atomic bomb or the failure to understand the Holocaust and to react appropriately. But Hollywood manages to find ways of making Americans the good guys, Nazis the bad guys... all's right with the world. It can be turned into a very affirming … very bankable narrative." 

こうなってくると、外国特派員とハリウッドの違いがわからなくなってくるね