You are the exception, however, not the norm. Look at the huge kerfuffle that brewed up over The Battle at Lake Changjin, for example. It’s been derided as pure propaganda (unlike, say, almost any American war film!) that is full of historical inaccuracies (unlike, say, almost any American war film!) and that shows Chinese soldiers as unequivocally good (unlike what, say, almost any American war film does for American soldiers!) and that shows American soldiers as incompetent and/or evil (unlike what, say, almost any American war film does for whoever the enemy is!).
Basically it’s the same old “othering” that dominates all public discourse anywhere. And it amuses the everloving fuck out of me.
Eh.
It is. And there’s more people that recognize it for what it is. It’s also primarily entertaining. Nobody wants to be on the wrong side, so a film made for any given country is going to paint that country in a positive light.
You are the exception, however, not the norm. Look at the huge kerfuffle that brewed up over The Battle at Lake Changjin, for example. It’s been derided as pure propaganda (unlike, say, almost any American war film!) that is full of historical inaccuracies (unlike, say, almost any American war film!) and that shows Chinese soldiers as unequivocally good (unlike what, say, almost any American war film does for American soldiers!) and that shows American soldiers as incompetent and/or evil (unlike what, say, almost any American war film does for whoever the enemy is!).
Basically it’s the same old “othering” that dominates all public discourse anywhere. And it amuses the everloving fuck out of me.
Eh. It is. And there’s more people that recognize it for what it is. It’s also primarily entertaining. Nobody wants to be on the wrong side, so a film made for any given country is going to paint that country in a positive light.