We are judging Dear Wendy by what some pro-gun control socialists have
written about the movie. I have visted IMDb internet movie data base
for some comments by people who claim to have seen it. What von Tier
and Vinterberg intended in the movie might not be what Kevin Thomas,
LA Times, reads into the film. Rohrshak [sic phonetic] test anyone?
"acutely observed foreigners' perspective"
Can we say Vichy-Quisling-Stockholm Syndrome?
"shot in Denmark and Germany" by a guy who is too afraid to travel,
has never been to America and whose previous works are mostly
fantasy and horror. His American coal mining town is about as American
as the Universal Studios backlot european village resembled any real
European village. American gun laws should be written based on
fantasies by foreigners...NOT!
"... the folly of America's love affair with guns, past and present, is laid bare... "
The pathology of foreign hoplonophobic obsession with American guns is made clear,
along with the pathology of our blue state syncophants who beg Europeans to beat
them for being Americans.
Stephen Philip of SocialistWorkerOnline :
It [Dear Wendy] works on many levels and also skewers the hypocrisy of humanitarian intervention.
As Vinterberg notes, “pacifists with weapons is what most of the Western world consider themselves”.
That makes Dear Wendy sound more like criticism of the Western European intervention
in the former Yugoslavia. So we -- US, UK, EU, NATO and UN -- were wrong to stop the
ethnic cleansing by intervening on humanitarian grounds with our Wendies? Would
Milosovic have been impressed by pacifists without weapons? Read:
Stephen Philips is more concerned about trigger happy coppers--LEO--
on British streets.
OH, OH. Calling the guns Wendies! How Freudian! Surely he meant Peters!
