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manuelgarciajr
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manuelgarciajr 
While thinking over your list of anti-war movies, I came across a headline, “Trump’s Military Drops a Bomb Every 12 Minutes, and No One Is Talking About It”, followed by an account of our “perpetual state of war”. A bleak picture, but your list is encouraging in telling us that there have always been objectors to the warrior view who didn’t believe more violence will end violence, more killing end killing. (“For good” is usually tacked on.) I’d like to add a banal thought. Any movie or piece of art that represents life being lived without guns, people working at solutions to their inevitable problems without a shot being fired, is, if only in a minor key, anti-war.
Peter is referring to my post
Anti-War and Socialist Psychology Books and Movies
23 January 2018
https://manuelgarciajr.com/2018/01/23/anti-war-and-socialist-psychology-books-and-movies/
which I just expanded with a list of anti-war movies some days ago. (Commenting has been closed at that post.)
Peter, of course you are right. What I wanted to emphasize about “anti-war movies” is that their movie-makers made the effort to be explicit about the anti-war stance of their movies; to purposefully and unambiguously put that thought into each viewer’s mind.