Charlie Wilson’s War is evil goddam propaganda
And if you can’t see this, it is because you are American. In the perjorative sense. That is, you are fucking idiot.
And if there is one thing that this blog is not about, and that is backing up points with intelligent, well-reasoned debate. That is because if I have reached the point of comment, then I am likely in a blind rage, and am typing on the internet because it brings a deeper appreciation of screaming into a pillow, breaking your old GI Joes with a hammer, or kicking the cat. Because it is even more hopeless than all these things. On the Internets, no-one can hear you scream. It’s the answer to the question of trees falling in the forest: what if an idiot hears it? But he’s too stupid to articulate what happened? Welcome to the Internets.
But anyway, no reasonable debate. This is the Eschaton. If something is expressed here that is because all normal natural processes have failed to contain the pain within. The pain. Within. The Eschaton is Ragnarok and Revelations and that blind stupid catastrophic end. Welcome to The Eschaton.
So Charlie Wilson’s War is evil goddam propaganda. We will examine this systematically. Firstly, it stars Tom Hanks. Please name for me a film in which Hanks has portrayed someone loathsome. I need a villain. A Gary Oldman character. Or like Fiennes in Schindler’s List. Hanks is like Tom Cruise in that he only plays a fictionalised version that is the same as the fictionalised version of himself. Tom Cruise is both a superhero, and a devoted father, and you know, he may be a little untidy, he may be a bit irresponsible, but aren’t we all aye? And when Disaster Strikes, he’s got the cajones to deal with it and save the galaxy. Hanks is a little bit more sophisticated, but this is like preferring a Moritz to a Mr Whippy. Every character he has every played is a charming, egotistical, pretentious wanker. And this is Charlie Wilson. I seriously believe that Hank has a well-worn highlights tape of his career stuck to the inside of his VCR by substances as yet unknown to man, and every night, once candles are lit, he watches a teary scene from Philadelphia, rewinds, watches, rewinds, as gradually the windows steam…
And I’m worried about the casual portrayal of his character as a roguish everyman. He’s an everyman? If he’s a projection of American sentiment, if he’s even a kernel of how they see themselves, then show me the door – he’s a coke-snortin, misogynistic, douchebag. I don’t have a problem with these things. Because it’s Tom Hanks, he’s not a drug-crazed psychotic. We don’t see a red-dripping nose, crossed eyes, vacant stares, hyperactive rants and violent crashes. His hot harem of hired help is charming, not insulting. I am confused by all this. What are we for? What are we against? Next time headlines scream “Clark Does Dope: PM In Sordid P Scandal”, should I just laugh, wave my hand, and say “Oh, that crazy Helen! She does like a good time, doesn’t she!”. I thought I was supposed to gasp, call up Robespierre, txt Torquemada, email Himmler? Or do we now realise that the War on Drugs is just a matter of perspective and perception? It’s ok if Tim Hanks does it. But if you’re Johnny Depp, expect to be betrayed and locked up for the rest of your life. And your daughter will hate you.
What else does Charlie Wilson’s War say? Hmm:
* It’s OK for America to sit on it’s fat arse, so long as it has a conscience. You use this conscience to help people overseas by sitting on your fat arse, generating a fat paycheck by yelling at people until you get your way. Polemical this, yes, but I still see a lot of fat arses, eating donuts. Talking about foreign people with sad faces, yes, but in between mouthfuls. Of donuts.
* Charlie Wilson is the desperate feral crazy white knuckle hope of a doomed and damaged people. He’s the lazy godless dope-fiend who has been put into a godlike position of responsibility by his peers. But squanders it on materiality. But – once thrust into the harsh realities of the world outside their well-lit and air-conditioned supermarket of a nation – they get all teary-eyed and moral and spiritual. They attempt to relate – and nothing is more ridiculous than an elderly well fed senatorial WASP rallying the Mujahdeen, who point at him and yell ALLAH ALLAH – but this is not their world. They have stepped outside the natural. Helping the foreign is like saving wildlife for these people.
My greatest fear is that Americans are going to come out of this movie feeling that their country achieves good in the world. That one man can make a difference. Myths which need to be challenged, not erected like a giant ideological phallus and paraded about. That they can stay at home watching American Gladiators because their tax dollars are going to people like Charlie Wilson who are saving the world… somehow. Did anyone ever question, reasonably, what Wilson was trying to do? And I don’t mean the walls of cynicism various nameless characters who represented entire departments threw up. Did any of the Mujahdeen ask about the opportunity cost of their pact? Whether this bargain was at all Faustian? Did anyone have the foresight to realise that there is a direct fucking correlation between the Mujahdeen and Egyptians getting weapons training, and Al Qaeda? Or maybe why the Soviets were invading Afghanistan in the first place? There’s a scene where the fighter pilots laugh about how much of a cakewalk their bombing run will be. Obviously, I deduce from this, the Soviets don’t have enough room for picnics and frolicking (Siberia is rubbish for that), and need the rock strewn wasteland of Afghanistan for cossack dancing and Vodka Trees. Could I suggest that they were trying to access clear water? Seeing as how their two major ports – Vladivostok and Arkangelsk (Minsk) are covered in ice all the time, wouldn’t it be in their best interests to get a hold of the Indian Ocean? Oh shit. Yeah, that’s right, it was warfare. But not that pretend play warfare, the kind that doesn’t have a point, that kind that just happens. There was self-interest in both sides. Not some fucking sap who had his heart melted by sad-faces. If your heart isn’t melted by that already, then fuck you. And fuck you for being conned into thinking that the world is this simple.
The Overlord — 14:38 21/01/2008
Indeed, I am a hello from New Zealander. Hopeful understandings cleansing you, I wish! Perhaps you-thought more gooderer? Than is to be my-thought? Original you! Copy none! My England is being a profound, so is these words making you happy? Engrish translations being help. Testicles.
The Overlord — 21:41 21/01/2008
Hello Easy Jill. Where abouts in China do you live? Next year I was planning to go to China to teach English. Seriously.
I am also slightly disappointed that I make it through the Chinese censors. Not so draconian- ah, not so strict now are we? That’s good. This is not the subversion that you’re looking for.
The Overlord — 21:42 21/01/2008
Hey Easy,
If your English is Easy Jill…
Then what is my Chinese name?
easy — 17:10 22/01/2008
My God. Me in a trade on the work of the University. Almost vocational teachers.
I Nanchang in Jiangxi Province Foreign School. (URL: http://www.jxcfs.com).
China’s inspection? Seems to me as if it is difficult visa?
You can come to China in August to see the Olympic Games.
Your English name is “overlord” like “StarCraft” zerg’s house meant.
I know you were called the Chinese “房子”. Huh. To open a joke
Administrator — 21:51 22/01/2008
Hi Easy. Your notes are like a tropical heatwave melting the frosty fjords of my heart. Please leave me lots of notes and be my friend! I’m not sure what happened to your previous notes. I think the Chinese Government has something to do with it… I can’t come to China in August. I have important workings here in New Zealand and am bound to this place until the Winter Solstice.
Are you also saying that in Chinese my name is “??”. I think that is a very good name to have. Or are you joking? This is serious business!
In my country, lots of people say that China is mean to people who like Falun Dafa. I hope you stay away from these people and have a happy life instead.
Get yer hand off it | The Eschaton — 17:46 06/09/2008
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