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Because film is touted as "entertainment" and, as television tells us, entertainment means forget your troubles and enter the world of light fantasy - sort of like eye candy for the brain - the attempts by some Hollywood writers and directors to inform and offer a snack of what's really going on in the military world are generally missed.
"The General's Daughter" is a powerful film that just scrapes the tip of the iceberg called military psychological operations. We get a glimpse of how brutal it is - first, to the general's daughter who has been so traumatized that she has become a perpetrator herself - a sadist who is given a license to practice her sadism on soldiers like the one we barely get a glimpse of as Travolta leaves her office. As she nakedly professes, "We f*** with men's minds." Her staked-out nakedness before her murder is her naked statement of how her mind has been mucked with, and the position of her stake-out? Remember Leonardo da Vinci? The weak part of the film is the love relationship that appears to be just thrown in, perhaps to add the softening effect of another woman to an otherwise brutally hierarchic, secretive masculine military subculture. That relationship could have been made much more interesting and even reflective of what had gone wrong in the General's daughter. Still better than average simply for the little glimpse we get of a nasty Guantanamo Bay mindset. |
