I can’t say enough bad things about Behind Enemy Lines and Black Hawk Down. Besides being propaganda flicks to justify our current foreign policy (euphemism alert), they’re chalked full of enough inaccuracies and hype about specific or thinly veiled representations of specific persons and nations that they’re even more offensive. If you can turn off the part of your brain that cares about such things (if you can, we’ve really nothing to say to each other anyway), and just watch them as action flicks or combat flicks (for those who like combat film for the sake of combat film), ok. As anything else, let alone truth about Serbia or Somalia, they’re crap. Talk to Ambassador Oakley about Somalia, for instance, and you still won’t get a story quite this squeaky clean. Or… maybe you might, come to think of it. I’ll bet they consulted him on the project. Yeesh. And following on the heels of Pearl Harbor, and several other such flicks, it’s been just too much of a barrage of jingoistic sentiment and smokescreen about the villages and hospitals we destroy from the air, the waters we poison, and the people we dispossess and turn into refugees. If we’re going to say something about Somalia or Serbia or Iraq or Afghanistan or (soon) North Korea, that will live on as the public’s cinematic memory about it, it should include the napalm, the FAE’s, and the BLU-82′s.