La guerra di Charlie Wilson

Good-Time Charlie’s Foreign Affairs

Most of the recent films we’ve seen about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us what a drag those conflicts are, which may be why so few of us have bothered to go see them. Of course all wars are terrible, but good movies have a way of mitigating that dreary fact even as they acknowledge it. Take the cold war: a “long twilight struggle” (as John F. Kennedy put it) that brought the world to the brink of annihilation and provided a persistent source of tension, anxiety and dread for hundreds of millions of people around the world. [...]

di A. O. Scott, articolo completo (5963 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 21 dicembre 2007