I see a lot of media talk about how "yoof" *should* watch it.
I've yet to see some intelligent comment from "yoof" about what they think about the film.
My body might say otherwise, but I'm still the same obnoxious, cantankerous, bloody-minded "SOB" I've been since my early teens. I fully expect the current generation of youngsters to be as obnoxious, reactionary, pedantic as I was/am.
The mistake pretty much every "older" generation seems to unconciously make (that I've witnessed) is they equate the challenge as disrespect.
That challenge definitely was disrespect for certain generations before me, and I saw that. It wasn't their "fault" - generations of social order were built on that social order. It might not have been 'just', but them were the facts.
The value is in the worth of what they did, and at the same time why they did it.
I fear that with the passing of time, the stupidly academic sounding "social context" will be lost. The "what" will be the only thing to remain, but the "why" will (or has already) become a myth. Which upsets me
I'm a young, but old, fart. I take my young kids to CWGM sites at every chance I can. I encourage them to read out the names, ages etc. They're too young to make that "it could have been me" connection, but I can see with my oldest (9 yrs) that war isn't a video game....
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