Will definitely need to revisit this after reading more about the Greek military dictatorship, because while it was well photographed, well edited, and I find its politics sympathetic, a lot of the names and faces of characters and their real-life counterparts flew past me, unfortunately
An exercise in sadism and barbarity but also surprisingly empathetic and disturbingly, depressingly prescient just over five decades later. Made in the backdrop of the Vietnam War and the anti-war movement of the time, the Kent State massacre, My Lai massacre, covert bombings of Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, and the assassinations of Fred Hampton, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr. but it is just as applicable to every imperialistic American endeavor since and especially to the age of enhanced…
