Distorted Perspective

Rating: 3/10 (17 March 1999)

Military intelligence is inherently unbalanced to begin with; its logic is based on a fundamental untruth: that there is something out there waiting to overtake us, to overthrow us, to annihilate us. So we must have defense, and we must fight for our just cause. And our cause is always just. It has to be, because it is ours. No matter that everyone else's cause is also just and right. Thus throughout history of so-called civilization we have right people with right causes fighting enemies made up of bad people with wrong causes. Into this Pandora's box "Glory" may be found. That its sanctimoniousness is trenchantly presented does not elevate it from the truths, half truths and fallacies which comprise all such genre works. It's like looking at a city from afar versus being in the city itself. From the outside one can see its context; from within, only its interior. I failed to appreciate the valor and heroism expressed in "Glory," finding its consciousness as skewed as other works of this genre. Which is to admit as to the inherent danger of drama, its essence being conflict.