I Heard The NPR Interview And Knew It Was All A Crock
Lileks deconstructs two movies.
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October 7th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
Hey, correct me if I’m wrong — but I think he deconstructs one (Flags of Our Fathers) and takes an educated guess on the other. In any case, as a more-frequently-liberal-than-otherwise reader, I appreciate some of his points of emphasis, in particular:
“Men fight for the men next to them, not abstract ideals. I get that last part. No one goes over the hill for the 7th Amendment. But a nation, a culture, fights for abstract ideals. You can make the case that the abstractions are lies or misguided artifacts of the time or the product or whatever you choose, but it’s still true.”
Unrelated except for your headline: I have a different sort of experience with NPR. If they talk about a movie — good, bad, or otherwise — I’m not going to like it. I don’t think there’s a system to the correlation. Just one very bad 100% true curse.
October 8th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
You know, I think your experience with NPR is the same with me. I’ve rarely liked much of anything they’ve recommended that way–which is sort of unusual. A couple of records here and there, yes, but that’s about it.