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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
Obviously, the problem with it has more to do with your inability to see past the red, white and blue theme than it does with any distortion of the truth or hyperbole.
It's a great story. Better if you're American, sure, but still great. I thought the insight into the mind of Herb Brooks was the best aspect of the film and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I rooted for Canada today. I'm American. I guess I'm a different bird so maybe I am the only person that sees your labeling of the film as propoganda as a reflection on you more than the movie.
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And obviously you are the one having trouble seeing past the red, white and blue.
The American psych takes nationalism to the point of not just loving thier country, but does it by an in your face making of every other culture and nation second class.
Ask the Europeans, the South Americans and the Asians how they really feel. Me I accept Americans like anyone else on an individual basis, we're probably your best friends, but sometimes their rah rah crap gets to me, like in the movie under discussion. When Rev. Wright said 'the chickens have come home to roost' he wasn't far off the mark.
Robbie Burns once said
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O would some Power the gift to give us
To see ourselves as others see us!
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Now you'll say, I should take a look at myself, but for the most part I have no problem with the United States (most of my family came from there and half live there) but sometimes something comes along to remind me that the United States invented democracy, won both WWs single handed, and yet know jack about the rest of the world and I get a little perturbed.