this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2025
44 points (95.8% liked)
Movies & TV
23540 readers
151 users here now
Rules for Movies & TV Discussion
-
Any discussion of Disney properties should contain a (cw: imperialism) tag. If your post isn't tagged appropriately it will be removed.
-
Anti-Bong Joon-ho trolling will result in an immediate ban from c/movies and submitted to the site administrators for review.
-
On Star Trek Sunday only posts discussing how we might achieve space communism are permitted. Non-Star Trek related content will be removed and you will be temporarily banned until the following Sunday.
Here's a list of tons of leftist movies.
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
the deer hunter. ultimate lib movie about how we waged the vietnam war but we feel bad about it and didn't they deserve it just a little bit? really gross.
I like young christopher walken's performance quite a bit but it also ends on a scene where all the characters gather round a table and sing 'god bless america'
yuck
It also does the thing where it depicts crimes done by the US as being done by the US's enemies. The NVA did not slaughter entire villages (including children) and definitely not just because. There were extrajudicial mass killings of reactionaries, spies, and collaborators, but never My Lai type shit the US and its allies were doing.
yes!!! it's real atrocity propaganda bullshit
That's interesting bc I always saw this movie as a depiction of how the US imperialist war machine destroyed young men and American communities. I thought the singing scene was bitterly ironic. Been a long time since I saw it now but I recall it as an anti war movie
I think your read on it was right...which is part of why the movie makes me so mad. It does put a lot of effort to depict how fighting in Vietnam destroyed these men, but it also validates the supposed reasons americans were there in the first place by depicting the viet cong as murdering civilians for actually no reason at all. The obsession with death instilled in these men throughout the movie are shown to originate from the vietnamese(seen through the famous russian roulette scenes)...not the American military
The singing scene has a quality of
dissent after everything that came before it imo
Hm, very interesting. I saw it when I was much younger so maybe I was less critical of the VC depiction than I would be now.
After reading your comment I found this extremely in-depth article about the making of the film and the controversies which surrounded it and a lot of your criticisms seem to have been made around its release, it was a good read:
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/03/warmovies200803