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How often did soldiers go off to Mexico to avoid what was going on in the US? It seemed that there were a lot of the men, especially those in wheelchairs that were in Mexico trying to recover and avoid the criticism in the states. -- Kellye Sorber | How often did soldiers go off to Mexico to avoid what was going on in the US? It seemed that there were a lot of the men, especially those in wheelchairs that were in Mexico trying to recover and avoid the criticism in the states. -- Kellye Sorber | ||
| + | The only other Oliver Stone movie I have seen was ''Any Given Sunday'', a football movie where he used a lot of cuts and dramatized a lot of scenes where intense dialogue was taken place. So for this movie, I was expecting a lot of distortion and even complexity in the progression of the film. I actually don't mind how the film was made b/c it is very unique to Stone's style, and it seemed to fit in this story re-tell of someone's Vietnam war experience. By watching these two Stone movies, it seems he likes to integrate the past with the present. The way he seems to do this is, for example, in the scene where Kovic is speaking at a parade but he cannot continue b/c of the baby crying. Stone reminds Kovic (and the audience) about the baby crying in Vietnam and instills sounds of helicoptors and gun fire. Very powerful techniques. - David F. | ||
I felt that the jarring nature of the film was really unsettling - but I felt that this was a conscious decision by the film makers to portray how unsettling and choppy the experience of the vietnam was was for soldiers. -Elle | I felt that the jarring nature of the film was really unsettling - but I felt that this was a conscious decision by the film makers to portray how unsettling and choppy the experience of the vietnam was was for soldiers. -Elle | ||
