Movie Review: 'The Dirty Dozen'
Pros: Great cast; well-written screenplay; lots of action in third act Cons: Unflinching look at war's violence, but not as graphic as modern war films The Dirty Dozen (1967) All art, as writer-director Nicholas Meyer ( The Seven Percent Solution, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan ) has observed in several of his Star Trek- related audio commentaries for home video, is a reflection of the time in which its conceived. One can, for instance, look at a painting by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn and one by Pablo Picasso and tell right away that one was done in the 17th Century and that the other was created in the 20th. As such, movies – no matter what genre they may fit in – tend to reflect the social, cultural and political environments of the times in which they are made. Not only in simple terms of cinematic techniques and casts – a film such as Casablanca is clearly identified as a 1940s-era film because it’s in black-and-white, it sta...
