The Monuments Men
This movie was a waste of time. It tried to construct a narrative around the mission of the 'Monument Men' and it failed. Films have a beginning, middle and end, or at least they have a 'story' which is greater than their plot. This has neither. The characters in it seem to be larping at war, which would have been a strange attitude for people alive to have. One other thing that was off-putting was the principle message of the film, that this was the fight to save civilization from the dark forces of Nazidom. This elevates material culture to the position of being the only thing that represent civilization, and ignores the fact that the Nazis didn't take these things because they wanted to destroy them, in fact they fell into the same trap as seeing material objects as the only representation of civilization. Also, Americans in the film talk about the priceless works of European art as "our culture" it seems a bit Nazi thinking to me. But apart from the weird message, the film is just boring.
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