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July 21 Generation BuzzkillI can't be alone in watching HBO's "Generation Kill" and thinking to myself, "What the heck is going on here?" Right?
I really was looking forward to the miniseries, since it's from the team that brought us "The Wire," and it had the potential to shine a light on how things were going in the early stages of the most recent Iraq War.
But with two installments down out of seven, I really am getting pretty tired of the macho, racist attitudes the characters seem to have.
I'm kind of sick of people being called "hajis."
I feel pretty much in the dark as to what the company we're following is supposed to be doing.
The complexity that served "The Wire" well doesn't seem to work for me here. At a minimum, in "The Wire," you knew the base objective: to put away drug dealers, or to expand territory, or what have you. And you could get the basics of how the characters were doing that, and when they messed up and so forth. Here, not so much.
It seems more like a bunch of random statements by soldiers sewn together, like in last night's episode where a Marine says that CNN would pay good money for footage another marine shot because "that s--- was extreme."
Maybe those are realistic portrayals of our fighting men. Maybe it's the point that you really don't know what is going on.
Maybe I should be patient and let things continue to unfold. Or maybe the mini deserves the "John From Cincinnati" bailout before I spend too much of my precious time.
- posted by Raoul Comments (9)
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