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Article: RETAINING HORRORS OF WAR.(NEWS)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- June 5, 2001
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Byline: Ellen Goodman
BOSTON -- I am lying here in a post-adrenaline state of exhaustion, recovering from the visual attack of ''Pearl Harbor.'' This is what it must be like to emerge from a dark, cold video-game parlor into the summer sun.
''Pearl Harbor'' is not just proof that you can make war, make love and make money all at the same box office. It's ''War is Hell'' as presented by your military recruitment office. It's chaos and ruin filmed in such loving detail that the audience doesn't recoil.
By now, you know the seminal scene: a lazy Sunday morning of December 7 filmed in its glorious peacetime normalcy. Boys are playing baseball, ...