Green Zone (3/26/10)
When Quentin Tarantino repositions the classic Hollywood hero into a fantasy re-inscribing of humanity’s moral failure during World War II, he encourages the spectator of Inglourious Basterds to withdraw from the problematic ethical responsibility that is implied in our own history as participants. It is in this fantasy avoidance of taking responsibility for our own historical transgressions by focusing on the virtuous white heterosexual male hero of Hollywood that I sadly call Green Zone the thinking person’s Inglourious Basterds.
