The "Bourne Identity" follows in the American tradition of being anti-government rather that anti-American. It is very similar to Robert Redford's Three Days of the Condor.

I am as anti-American as the next Canadian guy, but try as I may, I just can't conjure up the vision of middle level CIA bureaucrats issuing "hits" against each other.

These type of films could not be made in Canada or the UK because we are not anti-government.

More relevant for Mickey Kaus would be the flagrant anti-Mexican theme of Disturbia.

A teenager hits his Spanish teacher with a Spanish name, after being needlessly provoked, and sentenced to house arrest. The officer monitoring his house arrest is the brother of the teacher and also behaves badly to our misunderstood hero. (bad things happen when you force US kids to speak Spanish!).

This officer is later killed by having his neck broken by a mass murderer (just deserts no doubt).

I could not imagine this movie being made if the teacher and his brother were African American, Jewish, Irish, Scottish, Albanian

I could imagine this movie being made if the teacher and his brother were French, Arab, Russian, Serbian, Chinese,"southern rednecks".

What this all means, I don't know.

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