Cinematic Fraud

Rating: 1/10 (28 December 2007)

I can't give this film a low enough vote. This movie is simply a fraud, entirely symptomatic of a society in which wars killing millions of people are launched for things that don't exist like "weapons of mass destruction". This movie is a post-modern fantasy devoid, like the art movement itself, of any critical moment! It ransacks history for the most vivid backdrop it can find. Need a war, well let's just throw in Dunkirk and stitch the whole thing together with a five and a half minute pretentious tracking shot in which the whining love lost lead character stumbles around in a petty-bourgeois tantrum. Context? Who cares? Much like FOX news war crimes are simple reduced meaningless wallpaper. Nominated for seven Golden Globes? Yea sure! This is what art and culture must have been like under the Third Reich.