Yes, I thought Bee Season was great--I was thinking of it during the movie, but forgot by the time I posted. I wonder when she'll write another one.
For me, my inner angry American is angry because I care deeply about America and feel like it's been hijacked. The promises of equality and freedom, even with all I know about how those promises have been betrayed, are really important to me. So when I see an American flag unfurled in the middle of a story whose idea of America, I think, coincides with mine, I'm as touched as any right-wing nutcase waving the flag and brandishing a gun. Wait, that's a different kind of "touched". Anyway, my point is, I can be sentimentally patriotic too.
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Date: 2003-06-23 09:14 am (UTC)For me, my inner angry American is angry because I care deeply about America and feel like it's been hijacked. The promises of equality and freedom, even with all I know about how those promises have been betrayed, are really important to me. So when I see an American flag unfurled in the middle of a story whose idea of America, I think, coincides with mine, I'm as touched as any right-wing nutcase waving the flag and brandishing a gun. Wait, that's a different kind of "touched". Anyway, my point is, I can be sentimentally patriotic too.