No, seriously, forget about the movie review, but the central idea is something that seems to be doing the buzz everywhere, and that idea is that:
History is written by those who won. The heroes of any story, the "good, the virtuous and the valiant", are the ones who got to be that way by no other merit than victory, who were alive to tell the story. Nobody heard from the loser.
Another movie that also carries this theme is Unthinkable, starring Samuel L Jackson. That movie asks questions - What is torture? Does it limit itself to a person's body and mind? And how much is permissible? How far would you go to get information from a terrorist, if it would save many, many lives in your country?
Dogmatic perception of good and evil, and heroes and villains, is what drives every affiliation by birth (culminating in patriotism, think about it.)
A story that introduces the hero as unquestionably good, and the villain as evil without inquiry into motive or personal history, is a simple story for the simple minded. And religion and our own family history is replete with such stories, that we've learned to accept unquestioningly.
A glorious exception is the mahabharatha - with constantly changing perspectives, where every character is complete and complex, like in reality, where the virtuous show villainy and the villainous have a heart and a story. Where God is often devilish, and everyone, in the end, is blandly, achingly human.
