That's a tad snobby I think.

…sophy for him to make the kind of acute and layered criticisms the way Bertolucci or Kubrick could. His thinking that one could divorce politics from warfare, and, indeed, from morality,² is so childish that Spielberg dramas, with all of their moral simple-mindedness, appear mature and perceptive by comparison. Suppose that you’re from Mars, take any famous photos of war (the Flag on Iwo Jima for instance), a…
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That's a tad snobby I think. Spielberg's Munich is hardly a film possessed of "moral simple-mindedness", for instance.
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Novelist and Short Story-ist. Film and Book Lover. If you cut me, I bleed celluloid and paper pulp. Blog: www.simondillonbooks.wordpress.com
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