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1. It is obvious Generation Kills moves through the sauasage factory of entertainment, making concessions ot the literati. “The Wire” rang true throughout with even the most posturing and greedy pols or careerists cops explained with empathy. Junkies, cops, pols, longshoremen, and editors at the newspaper all had their complexity, their feet of clay, their aspirations and understandeable motives. All were human and all had aspects of “beautiful people” but for the truely evil like the “Greek”. It was this honesty which caried “The Wire” from entertainment to art. “Generation Kills” was the alter ego, the financail transaction, the cashing in by Simon to make something in accord with the powers to be and the perceived pop requirement for the Iraq war. As he sold out it is dishonest and falls flat. Soldiers are protrayed in flat unrealistic fashion - one minute mouthing profundities the next barbabric. All senior officers ar callous or cowards or fools. All privates noble tench philosophers. USA is the obvious rogue evil people raping and pilaging Iraq. On and on and on….. By the time we get to the last recent episode the sheer propaganda edge and objectives is so obvious it is all a lie. Shame simon, shame. To be reduced from the art of, say, the two homocide cops solving a CSI by finding the bullit in the fridge door uttering only one profaity in common for 20 minutes (sheer believable art) to cheap lampooning of a Captain in the Marine Recon cowering in terror on a radio on the bridge. Well obvious to all the lie and the truth. I can see two homicide cops rising above the sheer drudgery of another shabby murder and showing their craft, their calling despite all. I found the depicting of a Captain, a career Marine in the elite unit, cowering on the bridge under an attack by paramilitaries completely unbeleiveable and likely a cheap lie to gain prestige points for the next job.

   Shame Simon……”Generation Kills” will be forgotten by this time next year. “The Wire” will be replayed for the next 50 years. To make a buck Simon killed his projects longevity. There is the rub. ‘Generation Kills” is like all the fare we are seeing of late form Hollywood on Iraq. Anyone wonder why all of these films fissle? Is it perhaps that the public might be able to discern truth and art a little more aptly than the propagandaists think?

   George August 18, 2008 | 11:29 am EST

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