A tweet by the comedian Phillip Henry summed up the dynamic: “1) Emily In Paris is one of the worst shows I’ve ever seen. Recent reforms at the Golden Globes may owe, in some part, to widespread horror at the awards nominating Emily over more respectable (and diversely cast) fare. Withering reviews, offense from French viewers, and the headline “People Hate Emily in Paris So Much It’s a Global Crisis” ensued. In mid-2020, when COVID-19 was still novel, the first season of the Sex and the City creator Darren Star’s new sitcom portrayed an American marketing professional (Emily, played by Lily Collins) Instagramming her way through the most sophisticated city on the planet (Paris, shot on location). Whether you're a Navy Seal or an SAS officer, your loyalty to your fellow soldiers is absolute.Right-thinking people agree: Like the burning of Notre Dame, Netflix’s Emily in Paris is a catastrophe for the culture. You work in such small groups, in terrible conditions. It depicts the atmosphere within special operations forces quite well. Lone Survivor is both more nuanced and more realistic. If any recent film is crass, it's Black Hawk Down: essentially just white guys against black guys. Some critics have called this crass, but I disagree. The film uses footage of the men in the real-life Seals mission. The opening scenes of Saving Private Ryan are routinely used by military recruiters to show how exciting soldiering is.
I suppose some people would find these scenes off-putting. In reality, if you get shot, you're not usually in a condition to continue. The fighting scenes are pretty good for a Hollywood movie – the Seals are remarkably accurate shooters. There was a case back in the 1960s, involving British soldiers in Aden, Yemen, where they made the choice to shoot.
I would hope that any soldier – any human being, really – would choose not to harm a civilian, even if it meant their mission would be in danger. Bravo Two Zero, the SAS patrol in Iraq made famous by Andy McNab, were compromised by a goatherd and had to make that same decision. Not only is Lone Survivor based on Marcus Luttrell's account of a real 2005 Seals mission, there have been a number of similar incidents over the years. The Seals face a moral dilemma: kill a group of Afghans in order not to compromise their mission, or let them go unharmed. The mountains of Afghanistan we see in the film are very like the area of Kenya where British soldiers train today. Both involve highly trained soldiers operating in very small groups in remote enemy territory. There are several key similarities between the work of the SAS and the Navy Seals, the elite American soldiers depicted in this film. I served all over the world in the 1990s.
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