The Wire episodes 2x05-08

“Undertow” to “Duck and Cover”

François Truffaut is often claimed to have said it’s “impossible to make an anti-war film”. I can’t find an actual source of him saying this, but let’s just assume he did, since it’s a good quote.

The implication is that the image of war in cinema is just so enjoyable, so entertaining, that it cannot be countered. You can make a movie absolutely showing …