"Egon, there's something very strange going on in here."

Edward Morrissey, writing in The Weekly Standard, picks up where I left off, noting not just the laughably liberal assumptions that films like The Constant Gardener and The Great Raid take for granted, but the self-satisfied triumph exhibited by critics who accept these assumptions as unquestionable reality.

The mainstream media's reactions ... provide insight into a significant disconnect from reality demonstrated by the film industry and the liberal media that covers it.

The film industry and its critics ... prefer films that take fiction and pass it off as uncomfortable fact, while excoriating the recreation of real and uncomfortable history onscreen. They consider The Constant Gardener--with its recycled plot and its politically-correct details--a credit to the industry, while a generally faithful recreation of the Cabanatuan raid and the circumstances of Japanese oppression in the Philippines during World War II is derided for its "stereotyping."