A few years from now, will Hollywood be making movies about Afghanistan & Iraq being American tragedies?
I thought Black Hawk Down was one of the most honest, and realistic portrayals of a disastrous American Military decision, especially seeing how recent the US “Conflict” in Somalia actually was. I spent the first hour of the Film actually thinking,” Wow, what a refreshingly honest and non Partisan portayal of another “Low Intensity” conflict, It’s not often that the USA are so brutally Honest about their involvement in these third world Flashpoint Wars” and then I started to realise, that half the cast were British, and upon checking, so indeed was the Director. Well done Ridley Scott, I bet the Americans were’nt planning to draw any attention to this little Debacle for at least another 50 years! Great Film though, and it changed my viewpoint on US Special Services. They did a fantastic job of Training those Actors to play a convincing, and empathic group of American teenagers, trying their best to bluster through yet another disastrously badly executed and planned “Grey Operation”.
