5/1/2023 0 Comments Top gun song bar![]() He’s not apologizing for his privilege or studying white rage or meekly following nonsensical mask mandates. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, played by Tom Cruise, is cocky and reckless enough to keep getting into trouble but just good enough to keep getting out of it. And it celebrates greatness in a way that our modern, victimizing, equity-obsessed culture has largely forgotten how to do. It tells a pretty epic story of heroic people, with a plot that’s deeper and more profound than the original. “Maverick” doesn’t just celebrate America via inspiring music, flags, sharp uniforms, and cool dogfighting scenes. The only agenda being pushed is that America is the best country in the world and the men and women who risk their lives to defend her are heroes worthy of our respect, and that’s an agenda I’m more than fine with (and a fitting one for Memorial Day weekend). Not only is the film free of Chinese Communist Party propaganda, it’s free of token left-wing social and political propaganda. (That was undoubtedly a good thing for the movie fans slammed the trailer for removing the Taiwanese and Japanese flags on Maverick’s jacket to appease Chinese censors, but in the final movie, both flags are back.) ![]() The movie is unabashedly patriotic - so much so that a multibillion-dollar Chinese investor backed out of it. It inspires nostalgia for an America that’s all-too-rarely celebrated today. “Maverick” doesn’t just inspire reminiscence of a world of Ray-Ban aviators, Kenny Loggins songs, F-14s, and bomber jackets, although it does that, both for those who lived it and those of us who learned to revere that world via the stories and movies of our parents.
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