I once read an interview with experimental percussionist Z'ev about the problem of making music with technology that's critical of the world that produced said technology — "you're like,stuck!" he quipped. The very act of trying to critique what's around you ends up glorifying it, making it seem cool — the same problem Franois Truffaut had with war films. But every now and then someone cuts through the crap: Oliver Stone madePlatoon, and as Roger Ebert pointed out, it did not make war seem li...
Published on July 06, 2016 05:00