The results of the 82nd Academy Awards ceremony...
of well-known U.S. filmmakers. This brings to mind the indignation of the American public in the 1960s over the senseless war in Vietnam.It should be noted that American cinema has come to grips with defeat in Vietnam War, having given the world such impressive films as Michael Cimino"s The Deer Hunter, Francis Ford Coppola"s Apocalypse Now, Oliver Stone"s Platoon and other films, where the heroes are simple soldiers caught up in the meat grinder of senseless combat.
The world has changed much since 2003. The Bush era and its saber rattling has ended and a time of sobriety has come. It is no coincidence that most people in the U.S. chose the technocrat Obama over the almost legendary Vietnam War hero John McCain in the presidential elections. Obama is perceived as a person capable of bringing society out of a state of "great distress."
In the U.K. Gordon Brown replaced Bush"s partner in the anti-Iraq coalition, Tony Blair, as prime minister. Nevertheless,
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