Iranian Director's Film Wins Top Prize of San Sebastian International Film Festival

[Mani]

The film Turtles Can Fly directed by Iranian Bahman Ghobadi, portraying Iraqi villagers facing the approach of war, has won the top prize at Spain's prestigious San Sebastian International Film Festival. more... (http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=107ABC97-8CE6-44EB-8D1C4CB512733069&title=Iranian%20Director's%20Film%20Wins%20Spanish%20Festival%20Top%20Prize%20&catOID=45C9C784-88AD-11D4-A57200A0CC5EE46C&categoryname=Arts%20%26%20Culture)

[the_13th_redneck]

These films always win awards.
Make a film about guys risking their butts for their country and you get put down for making a "propaganda piece."
Make a film about guys leaving their countrymen to do the fighting and dying and running away while making some poetic justification for it and it wins an award.
Europeans...

[Mani]

These films always win awards.
Make a film about guys risking their butts for their country and you get put down for making a "propaganda piece."
Make a film about guys leaving their countrymen to do the fighting and dying and running away while making some poetic justification for it and it wins an award.
Europeans...

LOL :D

[nekounam]

These films always win awards.
Make a film about guys risking their butts for their country and you get put down for making a "propaganda piece."

Do movies like "Saving Private Ryan" and "Black Hawk Down" not ring a bell?You couldn't be further from the truth. In fact, I'd very confidently go as far as saying that the exact opposite claim has greater merit.

[the_13th_redneck]

I actually meant in European rating circles because that's what we were talking about.

Do movies like "Saving Private Ryan" and "Black Hawk Down" not ring a bell?You couldn't be further from the truth. In fact, I'd very confidently go as far as saying that the exact opposite claim has greater merit.

[nekounam]

It's true in so far as Europeans have shown a greater historical appreciation for the more humane aspects of the "arts".

[the_13th_redneck]

Hippies :)

[Mani]

Hippies :)
Since when appreciating arts and culture makes you "Hippies" :D

[the_13th_redneck]

My apologies... I guess not even hippies deserved to be insulted that badly LOL just kidding.
I'm just puzzed at large parts of Europe. They's multilingual, rather well educated yet so surprisingly useless. Doesn't apply to Germany and England for some odd reason.

Since when appreciating arts and culture makes you "Hippies" :D

[nekounam]

You probably have a very skewed definition of "useful". Once you've appropriately modified it, you won't come back to same mental intersection.

[Power_of_foot]

Good!

The film Turtles Can Fly directed by Iranian Bahman Ghobadi, portraying Iraqi villagers facing the approach of war, has won the top prize at Spain's prestigious San Sebastian International Film Festival. more... (http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=107ABC97-8CE6-44EB-8D1C4CB512733069&title=Iranian%20Director's%20Film%20Wins%20Spanish%20Festival%20Top%20Prize%20&catOID=45C9C784-88AD-11D4-A57200A0CC5EE46C&categoryname=Arts%20%26%20Culture)

[the_13th_redneck]

Useful as in getting anything done.
They're so bad at it.

You probably have a very skewed definition of "useful". Once you've appropriately modified it, you won't come back to same mental intersection.

[nekounam]

As in getting "what" done? Be very specific, don't type in unmasked rhetoric.

[the_13th_redneck]

Work.
Now you want me to define that as well???

[nekounam]

That's exactly what's required. Stop throwing blanketed words around unless you can link them to something concrete. Eventually, you'll realize how wayward and ludicrous your original statement was. So, where were we... oh, right...what's your measure of work and productivity? What does this measure include and preclude and why?

[the_13th_redneck]

pfft whatever. You know what I mean.
Or do I have to define "mean?"