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One thing that really bothered me was the music for the film. John Williams has done an awful lot of first rate scores, but I don’t think his style of music was appropriate for this movie. Sure, it was pretty, but it kept pulling me out of the scenes. I’m pretty sure “they” say that the best scores are the ones viewers don’t really notice. --Taylor Brann | One thing that really bothered me was the music for the film. John Williams has done an awful lot of first rate scores, but I don’t think his style of music was appropriate for this movie. Sure, it was pretty, but it kept pulling me out of the scenes. I’m pretty sure “they” say that the best scores are the ones viewers don’t really notice. --Taylor Brann | ||
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| + | Taylor, I think the meaning behind the desert scene was to show how ridiculous blind vindictiveness can be. Willem Dafoe's character was angry for the sake of being angry, while Kovic was angry for being abandoned. Both of them ran away instead of confronting the issue, and I think this was Stone (or Kovic's) way of saying "running away is still running away. You still have the same problems, they just have a different mailing address." The verbal fight over "how many babies did [they] kill," was also important, in that it showed how the war created a value system so twisted that the only way these menw ere able to validate themselves was by a kill count. -Cash Nelson | ||
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| + | Also, the catheter scene was, in my opinion, Ron Kovic forcing his family to accept what he is. His mother refuses to accept what the war did to him, and Ron refused to be ignored. This was one of the most soul-crushing scenes in the movie, I thought, because it showed just how alone he was in his torment. -Cash Nelson | ||
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