[Peace-discuss] Review of the film "American Made"

Tue Jan 9 13:17:12 UTC 2018

David

I understand, and had I seen a trailer, or ads, I would likely feel the same. An example of what you find disturbing is they have a scene of Barry in the White House meeting GW Bush, visiting his Dad, and yes he too is shown as a “likable rascal." Which is disturbing, but recognize this is one of the reasons he was elected by those seeing him in this light.

More disturbing is “13 Hours,” another “based on a book,” and supposedly a true story about Benghazi, the death of Ambassador Stephens etc. This is a film I found irritating as it clearly was a US/CIA/or Special Ops, JSOC propaganda film.

According to reviews it exposed the lie that Obama and Hillary used a VDO as the reason the people were so aroused to anger at the US. Unfortunately, that doesn’t mitigate the other lies throughout the film about Gadaffi, Libya, and why and what the US was doing there.
At the very beginning in small type letters across the screen they claimed the CIA, was attempting to find the stockpile of weapons to prevent their proliferation to Jihadists, a lie given the CIA promoted the proliferation of weapons to Jihadists. This film, not a satire, received a couple Academy Awards for some things, and is now on Amazon.

To defend my poor taste in film, I watched both as a result of a recommendation, for my opinion, and find it difficult to concentrate having them run while I’m doing reading online.

On Jan 8, 2018, at 18:52, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com<mailto:davegreen84 at yahoo.com>> wrote:

That's a fair enough assessment, Karen. What prompted me to look for the original comment that I posted was being bombarded with promotions for the film whenever I watched something on YouTube. My perhaps hasty assumption from the trailer was that Americans would view the character in the form of Tom Cruise as a kind of loveable rascal, without understanding the context of what he was involved in; or that he's presented as a sort of romantic outlaw. But of course just the idea that this is presented as entertainment is disturbing to me, although I don't expect it to be disturbing to the broader culture.

DG

On ‎Monday‎, ‎January‎ ‎8‎, ‎2018‎ ‎08‎:‎38‎:‎45‎ ‎PM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:

I hate to be disagreeable, but the film, is a satire, nothing romantic about it. It’s anything but propaganda, no it’s not a documentary but for those who don’t know anything about what took place there and then. It’s also a film that will sell big in overseas.

It’s comical, and will appeal to the many people who don’t read books, or pay much attention to politics, or weren’t around back then.

It shows clearly that the White House, DEA, CIA and Governor Clinton in Arkansas all were involved in the drug smuggling of cocaine to the US from Columbia, and guns from Columbia to the Contra’s in Nicaragua. As well as other things, like CIA payoffs to Noriega. It all led to the Iran Contra Affair, because Ollie North and others reporting to the Reagan Administration were involved.

As to why Barry Seal did what he did, questions the reviewer? The money, the money, and the challenge.

Inaccuracies in the film consist of his relationship to his wife Lucy as they were
divorced before his death, he had, had two other wives by then.

According to Del Hahn, his biographer: Barry never met the Columbian Cartel personally.

I think critics feel they must be critical, and some need to be a bit less elitist.

> The movie shows that Cruise was
> smuggling cigars via TWA when he was
> recruited.
> Also, Clinton is tied in during a good scene with
> the AG of Arkansas.
> The movie was not romantic.
> It was satire and a mockumentary is the Iran
> Contra affair.
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