>>62255352>He's on the wrong side lmaoYeah, had a feeling you'd say that.
>and a made up character for the movieFair enough, but there were plenty of people, no doubt, on the Iraqi side that were worth making films about just because of how interesting their stories were. Probably more interesting than some farm boy going out into a war and realising that killing people is actually traumatising, a story which has been repeated time and time again in US war films.
>art should be apolitical>smhIt should, art should simply be interesting. Sure, it can touch on political ideas and invoke political questions or debates within the consumer, but any art that is overtly political will have already been outdone ten times over by an actual, valuable political text. The only real value of Orwell's 1984, for example, is that it effectively depicts the crushing bleakness of a totalitarian world on a personal level, something which political texts often don't do, and not because it's a useful examination of the benefits of democracy or whatever, since anything it has to say has already been more effectively conveyed in academic non-ficiton works.
