(October 21, 2020 at 9:22 am)Sal Wrote:(October 21, 2020 at 9:07 am)Eleven Wrote: Still haven't seen that one. Probably won't.
If you like a conceited exposé of American "exceptionalism" and canned stereotypes of Italian, Indian, Bali, Swedish & Brazilian cultures through that lense, this is the movie for you. I had a whole love to hate thing going on the whole movie.
"Join the Navy and see the world." Challenge accepted when I was 18. Over the next twenty years I rented hotel rooms in 72 countries. I had three hundred or so pen pals when I retired. I drove all the way around the Med. I traveled from Cairo to Cape Town. Circumnavigated South America. I loved meeting new people. One thing I learned from all that was that almost everybody thinks their home country is the best place in the world to be. So American "exceptionalism" is just the American version of the general "exceptionalism".