oh dear, not again..

Rating: Null/10 (22 January 2001)

U571 is, in essence, a fairly good action movie. The problem I have with it is that once again Hollywood plundered the history books for factual events and then took it upon themselves to rewrite history to present what looks like a true story but is in fact total fabrication. The events of this film have some vague and i mean vague parallels with the British capture of an enigma, something most of the films publicity channels and media outlets chose to ignore. American personnel did capture an enigma of course, but this was in 1946 when you could just about buy one in a car boot sale. This fact altering trend even infiltrates film created specifically for children, take the laughable Disney reworking of the Pocahontas story. Moral obligation is a forgotten phrase in today's society but does Hollywood really want the current generation of kids brought up on lies and falsehood? Tantamount to the Nazi practice of book burning this trend of changing history in favour of a popular ideal is to me, genuinely disturbing. Yes its only entertainment, but why not draw a distinct line between fact and fiction.