Why We Fight Trailer up

[Terran1212]

http://www.sonyclassics.com/whywefight /

It looks like a fascinating film from the man who made "The Trials of Henry Kissinger" (the film).

[IndyOp]

1. INCREDIBLE!!

Summary from move website - I couldn't copy and paste, so any typos are my fault...

WHY WE FIGHT, the new film by Eugene Jarecki which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, is an unflinching look at the anatomy of the American war machine, weaving unforgettable personal stories with commentary by a "who's who" of military and beltway insiders. Featuring John McCain, William Kristol, Chalmers Johnson, Gore Vidal, Richard Perle and others, WHY WE FIGHT launches a bipartisan inquiry into the working of the miliary industrial complex and the rise of the American Empire.

Inspired by Dwight Eisenhower's legendary farewell speech (in which he coined the phrase "military industrial complex") filmmaker Jarecki (THE TRIALS OF HENRY KISSINGER) surveys the scorched landscape of a half-century's military adventures asking how - and telling why - a nation of, by, and for the people has become the savings-and-loan of a system whose survival depends on a state of constant war.

The film moves beyond the headlines of American military operations to the deeper questions of why - why does America fight? What are the forces - political, economic, ideological - that drive us to fight an ever-changing enemy?

"Frank Capra made a series of films during World War II called WHY WE FIGHT that explored America's reasons for entering the war," Jarecki notes. "Today, with our troops engaged in Iraq and elsewhere for reasons far less clear, I think it's crucial to ask the questions: 'Why are we doing what we are doing? What is it doing to others? And what is it doing to us?'"

[Terran1212]

2. I'd really love to see this movie and its disturbing facts

And the whole thing where he juxtaposes opposite spectrums of opinion together are going to be interesting I'm sure.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

3. OH yeah that's a MUST see movie

I bet it won't get as long a standing ovation here in Alabama as Fahrenheit 911 got in Denver when I saw it there upon release. I'll let you know if it does after the flick comes to local theaters.

[Terran1212]

4. You'd be surprised (story)

I live in the second-most Republican district in the United States. When Fahrenheit premiered here, the audience gave it SEVEN rounds of applause throughout and an ovation at the end.

Yes, you living in Alabama I'm sure feel my pain as a Georgian DU'er, but then again our work is the most important. What do the Urban Northern liberals have to do exactly? Preach to the choir? : p

[Jeffersons Ghost]

6. LOL, terran

They better be working hard to motivate extra voters or the yankee yellow-dogs may end up in Diebold Hell after a close November election. It is fun attempting to convert a graden variety southern bible-belt red-neck isn't it terran? If I told the stories of my conversations down here on a board people in other states would think it was fiction!

[reprehensor]

5. Two thumbs up.

Go see it. Now.

[Terran1212]

7. If it ever comes to the South..

[Jeffersons Ghost]

8. I bet it's showing in birmingham and atlanta

Maybe it's opening here in Tuscaloosa, as well. I saw Jerry Rubn speak here in 71' surely this university town will show the film.

[Terran1212]

9. Probably to Downtown if anything..

Atlanta does soak those kinds of things up!