Hollywood Anti-Conservative Pro Leftist Viewpoint

Rating: 6/10 (28 February 2016)

This movie is a vehicle for advancing a leftist caricature of conservatives in the character of Colonel Fits. He is shown as a strict disciplinarian who is abusive to his son. He also has repressed homosexual desires. Are there really people like Colonel Fits? Not really. No one is that one dimensional. Are there conservatives with repressed homosexual urges? I am sure there are plenty. But this film intentionally makes Colonel Fits unbelievably one dimensional, unable to speak to his son except in the most rigid fashion, unable to express love or compassion (in the leftist view, conservatives lack this ability), completely out of touch with his own feelings, and emotionally retarded beyond belief. This incredible picture of the man is meant to help convey some leftist viewpoints; conservatives are uptight, screwed up people. They are incapable of feeling or expressing love or compassion, incapable of perceiving reality because of their emotional immaturity, etc. It is also meant to advance the idea that handguns, especially in the hands of uptight conservatives, are dangerous and likely to be used for murder.
These ideas are not overtly advanced. They are suggested by the story and the portrayal of the people who own the guns.
The movie has good actors, and was produced well. The story is interesting and the different plot lines converge together well. That helps the viewer buy into the movie. It also helps sell the unspoken leftist lessons. They are subtly imparted but not unnoticed.
Hollywood wants us to come away from the film saying: -why don't those uptight conservatives just accept gay people and be gay if they want to be, -people shouldn't have guns around because they will just kill people in an emotional moment of weakness, especially those uptight conservatives.
Most of us know military veterans or active servicemen and women and resent seeing how Hollywood portrays them. I can appreciate the quality of the film from a lot of perspectives, but I could do without the Hollywood politically correct life lessons every time I see a movie.