I find Gus Van Sant a very thoughtful filmmaker, but word that his documentary about gun violence has won the coveted Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, makes me cringe. I hadn't heard of Gus's film, but its described as interviewing kids whose schools were involved in shootings. That alone explains the sensationalism of the whole thing. I’m sure it’s not a movie about how more kids die from drowning, car accidents and even space heaters, which they do.
The French were just dying to award something that puts America in a bad light, therefore we should make a documentary interviewing old U.S. servicemen and the horror they went through liberating France in World War II? It won’t be about the actual battles or the heroism. It will just be about how terrible it was to see their friends die so we could win back France. After we recount the shellshock, it can go on to describe how easily France fell and how it could have been prevented had France stood up to Germany earlier in the 1930s.
We could enter it in the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.
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