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For years I saw many films that portrayed Eastern Europeans as bad guys
Then the cold war thawed and for a while, all the bad guys seemed to be English
Then the middle east became the focus of attention and bad guys were Arabs.
It's refreshing to hear about a movie that makes the baddies American. Can you honestly say that not one commander out there in the gulf is psychotic? Nobody ever claimed that Brando's character in Apocalypse Now was a reflection on all American servicemen.
There have been many movies in history that portray American servicemen as monsters - the thing that seems unusual here is that this film isn't a Hollywood Vietnam movie, it's a foreign film.
When I was a kid it was called "getting a taste of your own medicine".
Get used to it - it's going to happen more and more as the rest of the world catches up to you in wealth.
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Overhead, the Albatross hangs motionless upon the air,
And deep beneath the rolling waves,
In labyrinths of Coral Caves,
The Echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand;
And everthing is Green and Submarine
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