In addition to inspiring reflection on life, the film is also valuable in that while vividly describing the story, it sharply criticizes the Iraq War, the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp incident, which are not easy current political events. The stance is invisible, there is no preaching, no advocacy, but it is clear and thorough.
The director and screenwriter's in-place depictions of various stereotypes make the characters more vivid and rich. The self-righteous, cynical, skeptical irony of journalist Bob Wilton, the free-spiritedness of Bill Django's California hippies, the innocent credulity of Brigadier General Dean Hopgood's Midwesterners, and the mysterious forbearance of Lyn Skip Cassady's ninjas. Each character is completely different, and even if the protagonists finally have beliefs, they are still independent.
This is a serious humor film, it is serious and funny, but also serious and reasonable, humorous but not frivolous, black but not decadent.
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