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Nov. 9th, 2003 11:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jfbI have to say, I liked Saving Jessica Lynch. I don't know how accurate it was, and cinematically it was no Three Kings, but it was stunning to see a two-hour TV movie spend most of its airtime on an Iraqi family. Lynch herself spent most of the movie in a hospital bed, of course, and we also saw the American rescue planners, but mostly it was about the lawyer who gave them vital information, and his wife (whose distrust of the Americans was plain and reasonable) and cute young daughter.
Here's a Times op-ed piece which explains that the movie I just enjoyed, and CBS's miniseries The Reagans, "were irresponsible projects from the start," because TV audiences believe everything they're shown. On the other hand, a Reagan biographer says the complainers who got The Reagans shunted to Showtime were overreacting: "The idea that anything so trivial as a made-for-TV mockumentary might harm his reputation is ludicrous."
Adam Cohen on World War I poet Wilfred Owen and the importance of seeing war clearly. And Craig R. Whitney on seeing today's war through the fog of Vietnam.
Here's a Times op-ed piece which explains that the movie I just enjoyed, and CBS's miniseries The Reagans, "were irresponsible projects from the start," because TV audiences believe everything they're shown. On the other hand, a Reagan biographer says the complainers who got The Reagans shunted to Showtime were overreacting: "The idea that anything so trivial as a made-for-TV mockumentary might harm his reputation is ludicrous."
Adam Cohen on World War I poet Wilfred Owen and the importance of seeing war clearly. And Craig R. Whitney on seeing today's war through the fog of Vietnam.
