"[T]he idea that satire has failed if some people don't get it is a standard nothing can meet. There are lots of stupid people in the world."
---Lincoln Michel (x)
Some say you can't make an anti-war movie because any depiction of war glorifies it, intentionally or not. But are truly sophisticated viewers perhaps immune to glorification? (As an aside, perhaps you can make an anti-war novel, but not an anti-war movie, because the mediums are so different---film is visceral, not intellectual, you can't be immune to it.)
Come to think of it, I thought the old black-and-white Tale of Two Cities criticized the French Revolution rather clearly by presenting the violence as glorious and then showing the consequences. I haven't seen that since I was a kid, I just remember the feeling of being carried away by the first part and then sobered later on. And someone just remarked to me that All Quiet on the Western Front is effective in its anti-war message---haven't seen that one at all.
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