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Universal Pictures Peter Berg’s Lone Survivor opens with documentary footage of a boot camp for the United States Navy SEALs, where hardbodied trainees strain their way through feats of endurance and strength. The point of this sequence, it seems, is to show how exceptional the real-life SEALs are before introducing SEALs as characters. With soldiers’ conviction and might thus demonstrated, the film can then whisk a few of them off on a mission that, as the title suggests, does not end particularly well. But this montage serves another, more insidious function. Assembled like a high-gloss music video and slathered in Explosions in the Sky’s soaring post-rock, it plays out like an advertisement for the Marine Corps—an affectionate endorsement from Hollywood of the SEALs’ peerless brawn. Adapted from the memoirs of former Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell (played in the film by Mark Wahlberg, who also co-produced), Lone Survivor is the sort of film you expect to seem at least a little propagandistic. It’s rooted in a tradition of patriotism as old as the motion picture itself, stretching from the John Wayne vehicle The Green Berets to the recent Act of Valor.
Many of its more aggressively nationalistic elements are just a matter of following genre protocol. Related Story Consider how Berg introduces our tragic heroes. His opening testimonial is followed by a low-key scene in which an outfit of SEALs laze around their makeshift living quarters, firing off fond emails to loved ones and fretting over forthcoming social engagements. They play games and sing songs and like American beer. They are, in other words, ordinary guys, totally down-to-earth despite being the best at what they do. Now, compare this exaggeratedly casual introduction with the way the film brings in its Taliban villains.
Their unruly gang storms into a quiet village while firing off machine guns and, while screaming unintelligibly, drags a man into the streets and lops his head off with a machete. (Sinister-sounding music accompanies, just in case the sentiment wasn’t clear.) This is cartoon villainy—the realm of the black hat and the twirling moustache.
Such gestures serve a straightforward dramatic purpose: They align the audience with the heroes while encouraging them to dislike the bad guys, so that when the battle finally ignites, the viewer’s sympathies have already been sorted out. During the film’s longest and most spectacular sequence, in which four SEALs face off against a veritable army of Taliban soldiers in the middle of the Afghan mountains, we need to feel an emotional connection to the heroes in a way that we don’t with their enemies. We need to believe, even subconsciously, that while the Americans are three-dimensional characters to whom we can relate, the seemingly endless droves of attackers who besiege them are not—they’re merely The Enemy, a faceless mass, a manifestation of evil. We want to see them shot at, eviscerated, blown to pieces. Steven Spielberg declared that “every war movie, good or bad, is an antiwar movie.” N obody leaves ' Saving Private Ryan' under the impression that Normandy was fun. This strategy, of course, is nothing new.
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And because an informed viewer is perfectly capable of distinguishing fiction from reality, it’s doubtful that even the most outrageously jingoistic war films are actually dangerous in any meaningful sense. In other words, nobody will be rushing off to war on account of Peter Berg.
But it is worth considering that movies like Lone Survivor do begin to resemble multi-million dollar recruitment videos—tools of military indoctrination geared toward the young and the impressionable. Films like this contribute to subtle shifts in public perception, helping to legitimize feelings of xenophobia and American exceptionalism.
It’s no accident that Lone Survivor ignores the question of whether the SEAL team’s mission was justified or worthwhile, just as it ignores, even more broadly, the merit of the war in Afghanistan to begin with. Not asking is its own kind of answer.
It tells us to focus elsewhere: on the heroism of these men, on the bravery of their actions. The moral issues are for another day. In an interview with Newsweek following the release of Saving Private Ryan, Steven Spielberg declared that “every war movie, good or bad, is an antiwar movie.” What Spielberg means, I believe, is that insofar as every war movie depicts the brutality and horror of wartime, every war movie takes an implicit stand against it—that is, to make war look real is to make war look bad, and to make a movie that makes war look bad is to make a movie that’s anti-war. This seems reasonable enough: Surely nobody leaves Saving Private Ryan under the impression that Normandy was a lot of fun for everybody involved, just as surely nobody leaves Lone Survivor under the impression that the average Navy SEALs operation is a cinch. Therefore, the thinking goes, Saving Private Ryan and Lone Survivor must be anti-war movies.
War isn’t great; war makes you great. What is such a sentiment if not pro-war? But it’s important to remember that despite their moralizing, war films are still essentially action films—blockbuster spectacles embellished by the verve and vigor of cutting-edge special effects. They may not strictly glorify. But they almost never discourage. All war films have heroes, for understandable reasons: to give audiences someone to root for, and because soldiers often really are heroic. But when a film like Lone Survivor transforms its Navy SEALs into infallible supermen tragically bested, it suggests that these men are role models only in death—that it was war that made them noble and heroic.
The carnage and difficulties only underline the message. War isn’t great; war makes you great. What is such a sentiment if not pro-war? Of course, if Peter Berg wants to make a film-length recruitment ad, that’s his prerogative. But it's important, then, to accept that the result is enthusiastically pro-war. When you make a film in which soldiers are paragons of excellence and the action they conduct is ruthless and exciting—in Berg’s world, naturally, the action is rip-roaring and amplified in slo-mo, almost pornographic in its excess—there is no other conclusion.
This is a pitfall few war films manage to avoid. Doing so would mean humanizing rather than simply lionizing your heroes; doing that means risking the impression of disrespect. Doing so would mean making warfare unappealing rather than exciting; doing that would mean risking the alienation of your audience. In fact, it isn’t clear what a thoroughly, effectively anti-war film would look like. Even those that want to be fall short. Jonathan Rosenbaum, of Saving Private Ryan, relates a story of escorting the late Samuel Fuller one day to a screening of Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket. After leaving the picture, Rosenbaum asked him what he thought.
He grumbled that it was just “another goddamned recruiting film.” And maybe that’s all they’ll ever be. This is a good day, Samantha tells me: 10 on a scale of 10. We’re sitting in a conference room at the San Marcos Treatment Center, just south of Austin, Texas, a space that has witnessed countless difficult conversations between troubled children, their worried parents, and clinical therapists.
But today promises unalloyed joy. Samantha’s mother is visiting from Idaho, as she does every six weeks, which means lunch off campus and an excursion to Target. The girl needs supplies: new jeans, yoga pants, nail polish. Listen to the audio version of this article: Feature stories, read aloud: At 11, Samantha is just over 5 feet tall and has wavy black hair and a steady gaze. She flashes a smile when I ask about her favorite subject (history), and grimaces when I ask about her least favorite (math). She seems poised and cheerful, a normal preteen.
But when we steer into uncomfortable territory—the events that led her to this juvenile-treatment facility nearly 2,000 miles from her family—Samantha hesitates and looks down at her hands. “I wanted the whole world to myself,” she says. “So I made a whole entire book about how to hurt people.”. Every so often, a right-wing commentator who purports to abhor dishonesty among media elites admits that they’ve been guilty of dishonestly purveying propaganda. These figures are not marginal. In the final years of the Bush administration it was Rush Limbaugh, easily the most popular talk-radio host on the right, who responded to GOP losses in Congress by admitting that he hadn’t been leveling with his listeners about their political party.
He declared, “I no longer am going to have to carry the water for people who I don’t think deserve having their water carried. Now, you might say, ‘Well, why have you been doing it?’ Because the stakes are high! Even though the Republican Party let us down, to me they represent a far better future for my beliefs and therefore the country’s than the Democrat Party does.”. Much of 2017 was consumed with untangling the political mess that was 2016 and Russia’s role in it. Much of what we learned came from American journalists, who brought us revelation after revelation about how the Kremlin meddled in the presidential election. Through these reporters’ domestic sources—in the White House, Congress, and the intelligence community—we learned how Russians aimed at sowing division; how Russian government agencies and; how Russians loosely affiliated with the Kremlin; and how the Kremlin the popular Kaspersky Labs anti-virus software into a spying tool. HEMET, California—Many cities across America are doing better today than they were before the recession.
This is not one of them. A decade after the start of the Great Recession, it struggles with pervasive crime and poverty. “We’re still recovering—we were really hit hard on all levels,” Linda Krupa, the mayor of Hemet, told me. A fifth of the population lives below the poverty line, up from 13 percent in 2005. Hemet is not alone in its troubles. A released this year by the Economic Innovation Group, a research group started by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, found that one in six Americans lives in what the group calls “economically distressed communities” that are “increasingly alienated from the benefits of the modern economy.” Such communities have high shares of poverty, many housing vacancies, a large proportion of adults without a high-school diploma, high joblessness, and a lower median income than the rest of the state in which they are located. They also lost jobs and businesses between 2011 and 2015.
When great powers fade, as they inevitably must, it’s normally for one of two reasons. Some powers exhaust themselves through overreach abroad, underinvestment at home, or a mixture of the two. This was the case for the Soviet Union.
Other powers lose their privileged position with the emergence of new, stronger powers. This describes what happened with France and Great Britain in the case of Germany’s emergence after World War I and, more benignly, with the European powers and the rise of the United States during and after World War II. To some extent America is facing a version of this—amid what Fareed Zakaria has dubbed “the rise of the rest”—with China’s ascendance the most significant development. But the United States has now introduced a third means by which a major power forfeits international advantage. It is abdication, the voluntary relinquishing of power and responsibility. It is brought about more by choice than by circumstances either at home or abroad. In the first novel ever written about Sherlock Homes, we learn something peculiar about the London detective.
Holmes, supposedly a modern man and a keen expert in the workings of the world, does not know how the solar system works. Specifically he is unfamiliar with the heliocentric Copernican model, which, upon its slow acceptance in the 17th century, revolutionized Western thought about the place of our species in the universe. “What the deuce is it to me?” Holmes asks his sputtering soon-to-be sidekick, Dr.
“You say that we go ’round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.” Brains are a kind of “little empty attic,” says the detective, and they should be filled only with furniture that’s useful to one’s line of work. Holmes doesn’t doubt the Copernican model; he simply has no use for it in solving murder cases. “Now that I do know it,” he adds, “I shall do my best to forget it.”. This past year, reporters on The Atlantic’s science, technology, and health desks worked tirelessly, writing hundreds of stories. Each of those stories is packed with facts that surprised us, delighted us, and in some cases, unsettled us. Instead of picking our favorite stories, we decided to round up a small selection of the most astonishing things we learned in 2017.
We hope you enjoy them as much as we did, and we hope you’ll be back for more in 2018:. The record for the longest top spin is over 51 minutes. Probably won’t make it past 60 seconds. Flamingos have, which makes them more stable on one leg than on two. If your home furnace emits some methane pollution on the last day of 2017, it’ll almost certainly leave the atmosphere by 2030—but it could still be raising global sea levels. By analyzing enough Facebook likes, an algorithm can predict someone’s personality. There are cliff-hanging nests in northern Greenland that.
Researchers read the layers of bird poop in the nests like tree rings. Six-month-old babies basic words like mouth and nose.
They even know that concepts like mouth and nose are more related than nose and bottle. Most common eastern North American tree species. In 2016, Waymo’s virtual cars logged in simulated versions of California, Texas, and Arizona. America’s emergency 9-1-1 calling infrastructure that there are some parts you can’t even replace anymore when they break. The transmitters on the Voyager spacecraft have as much power as refrigerator light bulbs, but they from billions of miles away.
By one estimate, one-third of Americans currently in their early 20s. Donald Trump has a long and on the early web. Somewhere around 10,000 U.S. Companies—including the majority of the Fortune 500— based on the Myers-Briggs test. Humans have inadvertently created, formed when radio communications from the ground interact with high-energy particles in space. This bubble is capable of shielding the planet from potentially dangerous space weather like solar flares.
Climate-change-linked heat waves. China from 2011 to 2013 than America did during the entire 20th century. A lay minister and math Ph.D.
Was the best checkers player in the world for 40 years, spawning a to solve the entire game to prove the man could be beaten. There is, where the Nansen Ice Shelf meets the sea.
On Facebook, Russian trolls on May 21, 2016, bringing Muslim and anti-Muslim Americans into real-world conflict at an Islamic center in Houston. Boxer crabs like boxing gloves, and if they lose one of these allies, they can make another by ripping the remaining one in half and cloning it. may be essentially useless to travelers, but to airlines they are valuable space for advertising.
Scientists can figure out the storm tracks of 250-year-old winter squalls by reading a map. On islands, deer are occasionally licking small animals, like cats and foxes—possibly because the ocean breeze makes everything salty. People complained of an “” in 1896. Languages worldwide have for describing warm colors than cool colors. Turkeys are as they were in 1960, and most of that change is genetic. Two Chinese organizations of the global Bitcoin-mining operations—and by now, they might control more.
If they collaborate (or collude), the blockchain technology that supposedly secures Bitcoin could be compromised. Physicians prescribe of the necessary amount of opioids. Physicists discovered in the Great Pyramid of Giza using cosmic rays. Daily and seasonal temperature variations, even if the temperature is always above freezing, by expanding and contracting rocks until they crack. The eight counties with the largest since 1980 are all in the state of Kentucky.
The has less to do with the rise of smartwatches and more to do with the rising cost of gold, the decline of the British pound, and a crackdown on Chinese corruption. Spider silk is self-strengthening; it can from the insects it touches to make itself stronger. Intelligence doesn’t make someone more likely to change their mind. People with higher IQs are better at crafting arguments to support a position—but.
Among the strangest and yet least-questioned design choices of internet services is that. Steven Gundry, who has contributed to Goop, believes Mercola.com, a prominent anti-vaccine site, is a site that gives “very useful health advice.”. At many pumpkin- and squash-growing competitions, entries are: Any specimen that’s at least 80 percent orange is a pumpkin, and everything else is a squash. Only of all U.S. Google employees are black, and only 4 percent are Hispanic.
In tech-oriented positions, the numbers fall to 1 percent and 3 percent, respectively. The weight of the huge amount of water Hurricane Harvey dumped on Texas 2 centimeters. Russian scientists plan to re-wild the Arctic with. The NASA spacecraft orbiting Jupiter can never take the same picture of the gas planet because the clouds of its atmosphere are, swirling into new shapes and patterns. During sex, male cabbage white butterflies inject females with packets of nutrients. The females chew their way into these with a, and genitals that double as a souped-up stomach. If all people want from apps is to see new stuff scroll onto the screen, if that content is real or fake.
Cardiac stents are extremely expensive and popular, and yet they don’t appear to have outside of acute heart attacks. Animal-tracking technology is just showing off at this point: Researchers can glue tiny barcodes to the backs of carpenter ants in a lab and scan them repeatedly to. One recommendation from a happiness expert is to build a “,” which is a place in your house that you pass a lot where you put pictures that trigger pleasant memories, or diplomas or awards that remind you of accomplishments. Some ancient rulers, including Alexander the Great, after an eclipse, as a kind of sacrificial hedge. A colon-cancer gene found in Utah can be traced back to a single from the 1840s. In November and December 2016, the Butterball Turkey Talk-Line to ask for turkey-cooking advice.
That’s an average of over 1,500 calls per day. In the United States as a whole, of the land is hardscape. In cities, up to 40 percent is impervious. Half of murdered women by their romantic partners..
Among the Agta hunter-gatherers of the Philippines, more than hunting, fishing, or basically any other skill. The familiar metal tokens in the board game Monopoly didn’t originally come with the game, to save costs. Popular were only added to the box later. Thanks to the internet, American parents are for their children, trying to keep them from fading into the noise of Google. The median boy’s name in 2015 (Luca) was given to one out of every 782 babies, whereas the median boy’s name in 1955 (Edward) was given to one out of every 100 babies.
America’s five most valuable companies are between Northern California and Seattle. President Kennedy secretly had Addison’s disease, a hormonal disorder, which he with injections of amphetamines and steroids from Max Jacobson, a doctor whose nickname was “Dr. Feelgood.”.
Some of the most distant stars in the Milky Way were actually “” from a nearby galaxy as the two passed near each other. Hummingbirds drink in an unexpected way: Their when they hit nectar, and close on the way out to grab some of the sweet liquid. New York City has genetically distinct. The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 created one of the ever.
People who can’t find opioids are taking an over-the-counter diarrhea drug. Some are consuming as many as. It used to take to make one pound of insulin. (Insulin is now made by genetically engineered microbes.). Astronauts on the International Space Station the yummy aromas of hot meals like we can on Earth because heat dissipates in all different directions in microgravity. “Sex addiction” in any official capacity, and it’s actually a deeply problematic concept that risks absolving men of agency in sexual violence.
The peculiar (and previously unidentified) laughter that was recorded for the Golden Record was—well, we won’t spoil it for you until you. The oldest rocks on Earth, which are, have signs of life in them, which suggests that the planet was biological from its very infancy. Fire ants form during floods.
But you can break up the rafts with dish soap. Until this year, no one knew about a whole elaborate system of.
People are worse storytellers when their listeners by saying things like “uh-huh” and “mm-hmm.”. China’s new radio telescope is large enough to hold on the planet. Scientists calculated that if everyone in the United States, we could still get around halfway to President Obama’s 2020 climate goals. The reason that dentistry is a separate discipline from medicine can be traced back to —when two self-trained dentists asked the University of Maryland at Baltimore if they could add dental training to the curriculum at the college of medicine.
The physicians said no. Naked mole rats can survive for at all.
A well-regarded Hollywood insider recently suggested that sequels can represent “a sort of creative bankruptcy.” He was discussing Pixar, the legendary animation studio, and its avowed distaste for cheap spin-offs. More pointedly, he argued that if Pixar were only to make sequels, it would “wither and die.” Now, all kinds of industry experts say all kinds of things. But it is surely relevant that these observations were made by Ed Catmull, the president of Pixar, in his best-selling 2014 business-leadership book.
Yet here comes Cars 3, rolling into a theater near you this month. You may recall that the original Cars, released back in 2006, was widely judged to be the studio’s worst film to date. Cars 2, which followed five years later, was panned as even worse.
And if Cars 3 isn’t disheartening enough, two of the three Pixar films in line after it are also sequels: The Incredibles 2 and (say it isn’t so!) Toy Story 4. On Thursday morning, Adam Gill stepped outside in a heavy, bright-yellow coat, bulky gloves, and a ski mask to brace himself against the blistering wind. He brought with him a metal teakettle full of boiling water. As he tipped the kettle over, the piping-hot liquid turned instantly into snow and blew away in the wind.
That’s how cold it was at the Mount Washington Observatory in New Hampshire, the highest peak in the northeastern United States., a meteorologist at the observatory, conducting this little presentation received thousands of sympathetic likes on Facebook. The temperature that day at the observatory a bone-chilling low of -34 degrees Fahrenheit (-37 degrees Celsius)—and that was without accounting for wind chill. The day broke the previous record of -31 degrees Fahrenheit (-35 degrees Celsius), set in 1933.