In my defense I was at work and didn't have time to watch the video! Now, having just watched the first 2 minutes of the video, it's my view that it's clearly staged. Maybe something like this did happen, in some way, but the video we're seeing is at best a reenactment, but more likely a fabricated event. Why is the prisoner so lucid when he "wakes up"? Wouldn't the lights bother him, wouldn't he have a different sort of harried look on his face? Also notice the way we don't see the soldier shoot the lock off the door, we just "hear" it, and then there's the key cutaway to the reporter's face at 1:37 where we see her look of shock and relief (like in a movie!). I can almost guarantee that any non-American will immediately identify this as fake. As for myself, I can't watch past the 2 minute mark because I feel like my intelligence is being insulted.
On a related note, this reminds me of how after Trump was first elected in 2016, all of the Hollywood movies and TV shows that staged international military and political events with America as the savior came to seem completely absurd. These sorts of movies are ones I enjoy--where the characters work for the CIA and there are like 5 different international locations that you hop around to--but you just can't make this sort of movie anymore because the very premise is unbelievable. As an example, consider the movie "Eye in the Sky," which came out in 2015 and centers on a drone strike and the moral consequences of killing a terrorist while knowing that there will be civilian casualties. In 2015, it was still somewhat believable that military and political leaders cared about international law. In 2024, this sort of movie can't be taken seriously...
'As for myself, I can't watch past the 2-minute mark because I feel like my intelligence is being insulted.'
Thanks for your honesty Derek! I really think this moment really speaks to something significant emerging...if there can be a consensus on this, then many things are possible. But I don't see how anybody who considers themselves to be honest and in good faith can possibly watch this video and see it as anything other than a very bad kitschy fabrication...that some refuse to say so is what perturbs me most.
I haven’t seen this, but I suppose this article at least has the quality of plausible deniability - the use of anonymous sources, etc., which is more along the lines of potential journalistic malfeasance and media partisanship, which exists across the political spectrum. I think the video I discussed is more blatant and perturbing, simply because it can so clearly be judged as aesthetically incompetent.
In my defense I was at work and didn't have time to watch the video! Now, having just watched the first 2 minutes of the video, it's my view that it's clearly staged. Maybe something like this did happen, in some way, but the video we're seeing is at best a reenactment, but more likely a fabricated event. Why is the prisoner so lucid when he "wakes up"? Wouldn't the lights bother him, wouldn't he have a different sort of harried look on his face? Also notice the way we don't see the soldier shoot the lock off the door, we just "hear" it, and then there's the key cutaway to the reporter's face at 1:37 where we see her look of shock and relief (like in a movie!). I can almost guarantee that any non-American will immediately identify this as fake. As for myself, I can't watch past the 2 minute mark because I feel like my intelligence is being insulted.
On a related note, this reminds me of how after Trump was first elected in 2016, all of the Hollywood movies and TV shows that staged international military and political events with America as the savior came to seem completely absurd. These sorts of movies are ones I enjoy--where the characters work for the CIA and there are like 5 different international locations that you hop around to--but you just can't make this sort of movie anymore because the very premise is unbelievable. As an example, consider the movie "Eye in the Sky," which came out in 2015 and centers on a drone strike and the moral consequences of killing a terrorist while knowing that there will be civilian casualties. In 2015, it was still somewhat believable that military and political leaders cared about international law. In 2024, this sort of movie can't be taken seriously...
'As for myself, I can't watch past the 2-minute mark because I feel like my intelligence is being insulted.'
Thanks for your honesty Derek! I really think this moment really speaks to something significant emerging...if there can be a consensus on this, then many things are possible. But I don't see how anybody who considers themselves to be honest and in good faith can possibly watch this video and see it as anything other than a very bad kitschy fabrication...that some refuse to say so is what perturbs me most.
Now do this totally false article: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/
I haven’t seen this, but I suppose this article at least has the quality of plausible deniability - the use of anonymous sources, etc., which is more along the lines of potential journalistic malfeasance and media partisanship, which exists across the political spectrum. I think the video I discussed is more blatant and perturbing, simply because it can so clearly be judged as aesthetically incompetent.
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