Apparently so judging by the war of words going on between film critic Roger Ebert and
Salon reviewer Andrew O'Hehir. Naturally I must side with Ebert on this one even if O'Hehir hadn't been so absurdly over-the-top. A couple excerpts:
O'Hehir--"It's legitimate to wonder exactly what Christian-friendly and 'middle-American' inspirational values are being conveyed here, or whether they're just providing cover for some fairly ordinary right-wing ideology and xenophobia."
--" 'Secretariat' actually goes much further, presenting a honey-dipped fantasy vision of the American past as the Tea Party would like to imagine it, loaded with uplift and glory and scrubbed clean of multiculturalism and social discord. "
Ebert--"We learn the horse is a carrier not merely of Ron Turcotte's 130 pounds, but of Nazism, racism, Tea Party ideology and the dark side of Christianity."
Gon' check it out tomorrow.
The Hollywood Reporter 
Oct 11, 2010 @ 20:01:09
