Nashville item on Winter Soldier

[whometense]

I loved the tone of this:

http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Arts/Film/2006/03/09/Feels_Like_the_First_Time/index.shtml

• Thank the right-wingers who took aim at Sen. John Kerry’s wartime record for doing a great public service: getting Winter Soldier the wider audience that eluded it for three decades. By seeking to discredit Kerry with his involvement (blink and you’ll miss him onscreen), the we-distort/you-decide crowd essentially summoned a welcoming committee for this audiovisual record of the 1971 Winter Soldier Investigation, a Detroit inquest at which recent Vietnam vets aired firsthand accounts of U.S. wartime atrocities.

There’s a chilling disconnect between the film’s plainspoken participants, recorded in artless black-and-white close-ups, and the savagery they dispassionately describe: gang rapes, wire-bound prisoners tossed from helicopters, villagers skinned and gutted like the hares in the “rabbit lesson” shown to troops headed overseas. What emerges, both from the testimony and the charged environment, is a grim alternate history that connects the racist hostility toward “gooks” overseas with the Indian wars and the mistreatment of blacks at home. Filmed on donated time by a collective of documentarians (including Barbara Kopple and Robert Fiore), Winter Soldier has the urgency of principle turned into action. Calling it crudely made is beside the point. You might as well complain that the Zapruder film is blurry. —Jim Ridley

[politicasista]

1. Cool!

Right in the backyard. Don't see many Kerry-Edwards stickers like there were during the campaign. :shrug: Nice find whome. :hi:

[ProSense]

2. Great item! Thanks. n/t