I liked : "And yet, the double bind that Coppola has not been able to escape is this: the audience (and millions are needed to make the film profitable) come at

I liked : "And yet, the double bind that Coppola has not been able to escape is this: the audience (and millions are needed to make the film profitable) come at first for the war scenes, but they find accepting this “at first” difficult: they need an ending, a dénouement, of intelligibility that will retrospectively justify those scenes. Ultimate meaning as cover for the jouissance of non-meaning. "