I was looking at a comments thread at Jeff Wells’, with various responses to Ron Rosenbaum’s Slate slamming of “The Reader,” and seeing such considered eesntially terrifying pronouncements such as “…If you were Jewish, as I assume Rosenbaum is, I guess that would be your opinion. I simply see it as another point of view…” and “I’m tired of people screaming what an evil, twisted monster Hitler was,” got me to thinking that, well, maybe right about now we actually could use a completely un-nuanced Nazi-bashing movie…

If you ask me, Tarantino’s got just a tiny bit of political commentary in store. I highly doubt even he’s so stupid as to push a purely jingoistic agenda. When I heard that line in the trailer about how the enemy uses “terror” and shows no mercy…so we will show no mercy to them — I couldn’t help think there will be a revelation that causes them to partially reject that statement.

What’s not to get? Fighting the bad guys lets us get our own evil urges out. Make them less than human = watch the body parts fly and enjoy.