This time it felt totally different about the whole thing than I did before. The love story is cool, the inaccuracies of technology here and there don't bother me, nor interest me.
What does bother me, tremendously so, is the way it is brought as "we (America) are the victim." And a bit later, "How victorious we have been since Pearl Harbor!"
A sense of self-aggrandisement that I find rather sickening.
The retaliation, bombing Tokyo, is utterly disgusting.
2403 died in P. Harbor, but except for 68 civilian, these were US army personnel who chose that and knew they could get in harms way.
Then there's what the US did to Tokyo: 100,000 civilians dead and over one million homeless.
You don't deliberately set out to kill that many civilians, it's inhumane. You don't set out to kill civilians. Period.
And to know people in those days cheered about their "victory"...
Funny how you can feel so different about a movie. I guess before I was more focused on the love story and the action. Now I had questions come up and I Googled them to find answers.
I also don't get why it took the US so freaking long to respond when under attack? They're trained for that. And sure it was early and a surprise, blablabla. It's not a 9 to 5 job, is it, so they should've done something much sooner.
And I also don't get how you can have men in your navy that cannot even swim. What the hell are they doing on a ship for work if they can't swim? I hope these days it's a requirement.
And there likely were clear signs/suspicions/knowledge of the attack on Pearl Harbor yet they didn't act upon that.
All very weird. I guess one more event we won't ever hear the truth about.
But I doubt I'll ever watch Pearl Harbor again. It left a real bad taste in my mouth.
Edited by
SparklingCrystal ๐๐
on Tue 11/24/20 09:12 AM