This is a moving and ominous film made in 1943. I made reference to it in my post of a few weeks ago, Vichy America. Wikipedia calls "This Land Is Mine" a "propaganda-tinged war film." I call it prescient. The story rings true for many Europeans who survived the Nazi occupations of WWII. Charles Laughton is brilliant as the timid main character, Albert Lory. Maureen O'Hara was 23 years old.
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Friday, February 17, 2012
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Vichy America
Defeating an occupier is cut-and-dried when the invader wears jack boots and brandishes a rifle. In such a case there is no nuance to consider, no truth to divine, no advantage to weigh. There is only the stark line between life and death.
In 1940, after the Nazis subdued and occupied France, the invaders moved the capitol of that war-torn country from Paris to Vichy, a small town to the southeast. There the Nazis allowed the collaborator, Philippe Petain, to establish a puppet government: État Français (The French State). Others knew it as the traitorous regime of Vichy France.
No brutal, foreign army has yet invaded America. Nor has a conquering enemy installed a puppet regime in Washington. Still, this country is occupied. For over a century intellectuals and academics have invaded the American consciousness with the foreign mush of socialist and progressive ideology. American citizens have freely elected politicians loyal to this ideology. These politicians consequently established the massive American social welfare state centered in Washington, DC: Vichy America.
In 1940, after the Nazis subdued and occupied France, the invaders moved the capitol of that war-torn country from Paris to Vichy, a small town to the southeast. There the Nazis allowed the collaborator, Philippe Petain, to establish a puppet government: État Français (The French State). Others knew it as the traitorous regime of Vichy France.
No brutal, foreign army has yet invaded America. Nor has a conquering enemy installed a puppet regime in Washington. Still, this country is occupied. For over a century intellectuals and academics have invaded the American consciousness with the foreign mush of socialist and progressive ideology. American citizens have freely elected politicians loyal to this ideology. These politicians consequently established the massive American social welfare state centered in Washington, DC: Vichy America.
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