When the Vietnam War ended in 1975, Hollywood didn’t immediately rush out to makefilms about the conflict.
Why did so many young men have to die?
And how could we as a country move on?
Image by Nimesh Niyomal
Tough times call for honest and unflinching films.
Budgetary constraints aren’t the only ways in whichGo Tell the Spartansfeels old-fashioned.
The American military has never lost a war, and they won’t start with this one.
Above the cemetery is an inscription: “Go, tell the Spartans, stranger passing by.
That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.”
If only that warning had been heeded in 1964.
