Thank you for this. I have recommended this film on several streams, but I don’t think anyone ever watches it. You are quite correct that it paints a very different picture of multicultural relations than the World War II films where all the White ethnic groups basically get along with some good natured kidding. As the old Italian crime boss says about diversity. “You get to a crime scene these days you don’t know who to shoot.” The film was also prescient regarding gays and transsexuals. I think it was too realistic for audiences in 1990 and now it in the era of Woke it must be condemned unequivocally.
When viewed in 2025, it a movie that unintentionally tells on itself, if you look at it for what Lumet was going for. The movie never became popular enough to warrant canceling from libs.
Thank you for this. I have recommended this film on several streams, but I don’t think anyone ever watches it. You are quite correct that it paints a very different picture of multicultural relations than the World War II films where all the White ethnic groups basically get along with some good natured kidding. As the old Italian crime boss says about diversity. “You get to a crime scene these days you don’t know who to shoot.” The film was also prescient regarding gays and transsexuals. I think it was too realistic for audiences in 1990 and now it in the era of Woke it must be condemned unequivocally.
When viewed in 2025, it a movie that unintentionally tells on itself, if you look at it for what Lumet was going for. The movie never became popular enough to warrant canceling from libs.