| RATING: | 60% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
Genetic Supremacism
Amusing White-supremacist nonsense about how Whites have the right to stick their noses into other men's wars in order to vainly prove the genetic superiority of Whites.
All modern superhero stories are based upon the myth of an Aryan Herrenvolk in which a sexually-inadequate White male redeems himself through the violent overthrow of a local (or global) bully so that he can get the girl. The screenplay tries to downplay the Wagnerian/Darwinist/Hitlerian aspect of the story with a standardized Good German character; the Nazis being shown to be even worse than a racially-segregated United States Army; and, plentiful, sub-Ken Russell digs at the film's own obsession with its attempts to create White super-humans.
In contemporary terms, of course, this is a thinly-veiled example of Western wishful-thinking in terms of the current war against Al-Qaeda - and its ilk; pointed references to a planned bombing of New York make this parallel obvious. It pretends that such wars come from nowhere and that Whites played no part in creating the problems for which they claim to be the sole agents of the problems' defeat. By placing the action in the past, in a Second World War that is alleged to have been morally-right, the drama allows itself to present such conflicts as Black & White battles between Good & Evil. Yet racial segregation is never mentioned and Black soldiers are seen working together with White - as if American racism were somehow of a better kind than the National Socialist variety - and,worse, that we are all (somehow) working together in the great struggle for (White) freedom! This is Whites trying to have it both ways by seeking to live in an alternate reality where Whites are the Herrenrasse!
Yet the film entertains as it was designed to and the supporting characters (particularly those played by Hugo WEAVING & Tommy Lee JONES) provide such good value that you are partly-convinced to almost take it all seriously. Given the culturally-declining present, it is perhaps no surprise that a mythological re-interpreting of an anachronistic past should be one of the few means for present-day Whites to imagine themselves as a force for good in the world. A film that glorifies violence-as-entertainment, but not violence-to-a-moral-purpose.
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