11-12-2024, 11:48 AM
Their Best
War movies, as a genre, are the best
that they can be when they stress unity
of purpose in among the friendly men
with minor conflicts. Good enough, but then
there is off-putting tendency to make
the enemy a faceless race or take
them all for sneering, loutish, lazy fools
who always miss their first shot. These are tools
of half-baked drama. Better far to play
them tragic, human, death the price they pay
no less than our boys: flawed on either side
but mostly soldiers we can watch with pride.
War movies, as a genre, are the best
that they can be when they stress unity
of purpose in among the friendly men
with minor conflicts. Good enough, but then
there is off-putting tendency to make
the enemy a faceless race or take
them all for sneering, loutish, lazy fools
who always miss their first shot. These are tools
of half-baked drama. Better far to play
them tragic, human, death the price they pay
no less than our boys: flawed on either side
but mostly soldiers we can watch with pride.
Non-practicing atheist