Black Friday (2021)
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On Thanksgiving night, disgruntled toy store employees begrudgingly arrive for work to open the...
Black Mirror - Season 2
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S2, Ep1 - Released 11 Feb. 2013 Title: Be Right Back Description: After learning about a new...
Logotype
Book
"Logotype" is the definitive modern collection of logotypes, monograms and other text-based...
Dr Seuss' The Lorax (2012)
Movie Watch
In the walled city of Thneed-Ville, where everything is artificial and even the air is a commodity,...
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Book
If you can recall watching motorcycle scrambles and trials on your black and white TV during the...
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Book
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Nick Voulgaris and Douglas Friedman
Book
Everyone dreams of a house by the sea, and this book presents the best examples of homes for...
The Pew and the Picket Line: Christianity and the American Working Class
Christopher D. Cantwell, Heath W. Carter and Janine Giordano Drake
Book
The Pew and the Picket Line collects works from a new generation of scholars working at the nexus...
David McK (3207 KP) rated The Last Samurai (2003) in Movies
Feb 6, 2021
And this.
Which is a strong contender for one of the best of those films.
The film stars Tom Cruise (who, for once, is not playing Tom Cruise) and Ken Wattanabe, with the former a world weary US Civil War veteran (suffering from PTSD?) who is hired to train the modernising Japanese army, and the latter a Samurai leader who thinks Japan is losing its identity; moving too fast into the future.
Captured by that Samurai leader following an early battle, Algren (Cruise's character) soon finds himself beginning to wonder is he fighting in the right side...
Yes, the plot is somewhat akin to 'Dances with Wolves' (or even 'Avatar'), and I've heard the charge of the film being a White Saviour story - a charge, I have to say, that I do NOT find any merit in: indeed, I would argue the opposite (that Cruise's character is saved rather than the one doing the saving) is more true.