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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 5117313" data-attributes="member: 42582">To your last comment, yes and no. As I said upthread, I think aesthetics and political morality can come apart.For example, in the film Das Boot, I feel sympathy for the German submariners even though, from the political point of view, I should be hoping that their boat is sunk by the British.Or a slightly different example: in the film Hero I am highly moved by the conclusion, even though the values it expresses, both political (nationalistic) and personal (particular notions of loyalty and service) are very different from my own.Or, as I said earlier, LoTR.If I've seen Alien I don't remember it, but one observation concerning Aliens that I found insightful is that it's a type of wish-fulfillment fantasy of the war in IndoChina.Again, it doesn't mean I find the movie unwatchable or repulsive - see above remarks on the separation of aesthetics from politics.</blockquote>