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May 23, 2008, 09:08AM

Act Courageously, See A Movie That Might Be Bad

The Splice political team balances competeting perspectives here, so let us just say that we think Larisa Alexandra has some legitimate grievances about the Iraq war. But this shrill call to arms about the new satire movie War, Inc. is ridiculous. You'd thin from her article buying a ticket for this movie is equivalent to facing down tanks in Tiananmen Square.

"My interest in writing about the film right now, before its opening on May 23rd, is in the hope of saving it from what appears to be a distinct stench of blacklisting. No, I do not believe there is an organized, conspiratorial effort to shut-down a wide release of War Inc. Just to be clear, that is not what I am saying. In reality, we no longer need any organized effort because the mechanism of censorship is now so fully integrated into the body-politic of this nation anyway.

Ultimately, the success of this film will not rest with intellectually lazy film-critics or with the musings of privately owned members of the fourth estate. The success of this film will rest with you, the audience and with a grassroots movement that has thus far been the only force to keep this nation from diving fully into the arms of fascism. Make me proud and buy a ticket tomorrow. Show up in droves and see for yourselves if you think this film as brilliant and brave as I do.

I am counting on you the way you count on me, the way all of us who want courage from others must count on ourselves to support that courage when called upon to do so.

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