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The Coming War [DVD]
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Contributor | John Pilger |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 51 minutes |
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This is John Pilger’s 60th documentary film. The recipient of multiple awards, including Britain’s highest award for journalism, twice, and television academy awards in both the UK and the United States, Pilger has been a foreign correspondent and a frontline war reporter. An incisive and rare critic of Western economic and military power, Pilger’s humane eyewitness reporting has been described as a unique presence on British television that explores where others dare not go.
John Pilger’s new film is his most urgent work to date and reveals what the news does not.
The United States and China may well be on the road to war – and with a noose of US bases now encircling the world’s newest superpower, nuclear war is not only imaginable but a nightmarish prospect. The Coming War on China is both a warning and an inspiring story of people’s resistance to war and the occupation of their countries.
Filmed over two years across four potential flashpoints, The Coming War returns Pilger to Asia, where his most renowned work has been set; like his landmark Cambodia Year Zero, this film breaks a silence. With eyewitness interviews and rare archive footage, it tells the secret history of an entire nation declared ‘experimental’ in the nuclear age.
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- Rated : To Be Announced
- Language : English
- Package Dimensions : 19 x 13.6 x 1.2 cm; 40 g
- Director : John Pilger
- Media Format : PAL
- Run time : 1 hour and 51 minutes
- Release date : 5 Dec. 2016
- Studio : 101 Films
- ASIN : B01N085UV0
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: 74,437 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)
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- 19,328 in Television (DVD & Blu-ray)
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This documentary does make for disturbing viewing in certain respects BUT the current virus crisis and the impending planetary enviromental collapse is far more immediate and scary than the thought of a, lets face it, pointless war. A nuclear exchange between any countries will devastate both the attacker and the defender and every other country and living being on this little world. But a virus might just do the job far more thoroughly and completely long before that happens and all this sabre rattling will of been for nothing.
I am disturbed and frightened and I do not live in China. Anyone living inside China or near that ring of "defenses" must be terrified.
It would be far better to spend those trillions on creating a better World for everyone rather than destroying it in the name of.... (fill in the justification of your choice here).
It saddens me that as a race we are still no better than savages but we have the potential to do many great and wonderful things that are never realised and we remain hellbent on our own extinction by passive means or overt action.
However most of us just want to live a reasonable, peaceful life...
This is flabby and rambling. The first 45 minutes focus on the Bikini atoll nuclear test and the desperate plight of the Marshall Islanders. A tragic story worthy of telling, John, but of very marginal relevance to this story. There are substantive sections on US base development in Okinawa and South Korea which illustrate the ring of military bases around China; clearly more relevant. There is much talk of the US's renewed expenditure on nuclear weapons; again very relevant.
But there is nothing on China's growing military spending. Nothing on China's development in Africa which mirrors and threatens Western initiatives there. There is little mention of the Spratly Islands and nothing of Taiwan at all.
There are three interviews with Chinese commentators; all unofficial and none are challenged.
This is a complex situation and the mainstream narrative in the West is a very one-sided one. Here was an opportunity to present a much more intelligent, balanced narrative which would have been very feasible in one hour 52 minutes. Or at least would have been by a sharp journalist on the top of his game. Instead we get tired ranting which is perhaps even less objective than what we are used to.
This film is topical as China becomes focus of being not just an economic power but military one in Asia-Pacific theatre.
Worth watching even if you find yourself in conflict with Pilger's views at the end of it.
I forced myself to finish watching this. The atrocities and hypocrisies of the US atomic programme (a bizarre drawn out cul-de-sac given other issues which could have been chosen) are spelt out in the first half and I had therefore anticipated the balancing antithesis of Chinese crimes to follow before some analytical synthesis. These never arrived: this was a complete hatchet job against US foreign policy. I am far from an American apologist, but this was cringe-worthy and uncomfortable. As a documentary, it is an insult to intelligence and the death knell of any serious pretence of Pilger's journalist career.
Most telling for me is the facade of some balanced interviewing: Pilger interrupts and corrects US spokespeople on at least three occasions, a hostility and rudeness not exerted elsewhere. His lack of objectivity, the clumsy inelegant construction of argument, the banal selectivity of history (yes, the Cultural Revolution brought many out of poverty but by all serious academic counting killed more than Hitler or Stalin). This is not serious journalism, and his delivery is simply insulting.
Yes, the US foreign policies have had several misadventures, but that is the nature of foreign policy. The selected skeletons were monotone and hack-emotive. The lack of direct comparison (of which there are at least an equal number in China), and any constructive conclusion was mind-numbing. And I suspect ultimately self-defeating: it is unlikely any balanced viewer could take this documentary seriously.
Without doubt, this is hack journalism - political broadcasts under the flimsiest of vaneers - which is not only intellectually bankrupt, but which divides and breeds intolerance: only the ignorant or the fanatical at one end of the political spectrum will find any value from this in reinforcing their own bigotry or stupidity. Whilst it will inspire vehement reactionary counteraccusation and attacks from those ignorant or fanatical at the other end of political spectrums. There is no room for constructive dialogue. This is truly terrible. A crime against journalism.
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