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The movies you mention always only show the atrocities from the American side, ending up justifying, pitying and damning or saving the American protagonist. Am
by camillomiller 5y ago
The movies you mention always only show the atrocities from the American side, ending up justifying, pitying and damning or saving the American protagonist.
America is just always front and center. Americans just can't help being up their own ass so deep that even when they express criticism they can't not make it all about themselves.
I'm really sorry about the generalization, but as someone living in a city where US expats come to escape and complain about their own bubble by forming another, I'm reminded on a daily basis how that generalization never fails to hold true.
- imwillofficial 5y agoWait, you mean American movies staring Americans, for American audiences WERE ABOUT AMERICANS?! Inconceivable! I’m currently visiting DC, and I hate to break it to you. Every nationality, in any country, forms their own bubbles if they can. People gravitate to what they know.
- camillomiller 5y agoAmerican movies are the only ones I can think of that tell GLOBAL stories from a purely American-only perspective. Local American stories are of course great! I love movies made by Americans who tell me American stories. Apart from that they all suffer from some degree of America as the savior syndrome, or as I like to call it “World Series” syndrome. Only a country like America could call “World” something that is purely American. So no, sorry, it’s not just a matter of perspective.
- imwillofficial 5y agoOn this I agree entirely.