America is at the mall.

As well as its spiritual counterwight: “The Chronicles of Narnia”. Admitedly a mythic retelling of WW II, but just as apt for reminding today’s audiences that heroic figures can battle for liberty against an oppressive tyranny, even if Al Qaeda and jihadists are not specifically mentioned.

“Black Hawk Down” tried to work the same anti-war angle, earlier, but couldn’t quite suppress the valor of the American fighting men under duress, and defeated its own defeatism.

Not every film made during the Cold War was a direct and literal examination of the Soviet/Communist threat, but took on the underlying and ultimate issues, and then made vital points about them by raising up iconic figures- from history or literature (”Spartacus”, “Ben-Hur”, and, apt for the current militant Mohammedan threat, “El Cid”)- to tell easily understood parallel tales of the fight for freedom.

“The Sole Survivor” book will probably be made by Hollywood, primarily because it is set in Afghanistan (the morally more “tolerable” war front, from the Left’s point of view) and because its message is bleak.

But I doubt the Tinseltown producers will emphasize the real and deadly point of that incident:

-political correctness in wartime (allowing captured civilian “shepherds’ to go free, who then betray the position of the special forces guys, scouting in the mountains, to the Taliban …who then ambushed them) can get you slaughtered.

The La-La Land contingent is so virulently opposed to “Dubyah” (and “Darth” Cheney, et al) that they would gladly see the whole country undermined (and even destroyed in the long run) if it will also harm George “Warcriminal” Bush. (Self-immolation appears to be desirable to them if they can also take out the source of their political hatred.)

Suicide Bombers in the cinematic realm, essentially.

Glad to die for their cause, if only economically and aesthetically.

Now TV is a different story, because few show make it intact overseas. Generally they are remade like Ugly Betty is a Latin American knock off that neither resembles the original or it’s knockoff. Other countries do the same thing to U.S. shows. So TV shows are generally played toward a U.S audience.

Scott, I think at this point, the American public is ready to see positive movies about Iraq. It doesn’t mean they are supporters of the Iraq invasion; but I think the majority of the American public, even those opposed to President Bush and the GWOT and OIF, do want to see our soldiers portrayed in a heroic light. They want to be optimistic and be given something to cheer about.

My uneducated, non-poll-driven opinion.

Why do people see a fictional opumentary rather than real movies about real heroism?

Answer that=answer the entire opposition to the war on terror.