Editor, Commonwealth:
I recently had the opportunity (or maybe I should say the misfortune) of watching the $200 million production of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) movie “The Battle of Lake Changjin,” a highly fictionalized and totally propagandistic retelling (from the Communist Chinese point of view) of the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir in late 1950 of the Korean War. I had heard that the movie was weak, but I was unprepared for the blatant shortcoming that was to come.
Clint Guenther
The CCP could have done considerably better, and more, with its money, but if that’s the best it can do, then we have nothing to worry about from the Communist Chinese. Their joke of a movie does, however, explain why the Bidens and the CCP are so joined at the hip. They are both sadly lacking in intelligence, creativity and, most of all, the ability to tell the plain, old-fashioned, honest truth.
While it may be true that some war movies embellish the truth somewhat, and that some take historic “license,” generated if not required by Hollywood, this particular Communist Chinese movie goes far, far beyond. The North Koreans and their allied Chinese soldiers never miss hitting a U.S. Marine or Army soldier, regardless of the difficulty of the shot. On the other hand, U.S. troops are portrayed as barely able to hit the side of a barn with a bazooka. Despite explosions galore, the noble People’s Volunteer Army of North Korea also always comes through, barely even scathed until the very end of the movie. There are also a couple of almost comical scenes portraying CCP leader Mao Zedong as all but a benevolent Santa Claus, bestowing his favor upon a jingoistic and like-minded future nationalist CCP soldier.
It may be sad that “history is violent,” as Wardaddy puts it in the movie “Fury,” but it should at the very least be portrayed by the truth. Otherwise, a supposedly “historical” movie may as well be a Looney Tune. And goodness knows, we already have way enough of those, both on the silver screen and in the White House.
Clint Guenther
Greenwood
