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Throughout the movie, there was an ever-present tone painting the fight against communism as a ludicrous, illogical one. The scene where Kovic's mother tells him he is doing the right thing for going off to war to fight, because God is against communism really captures that tone. I think because this movie was made at the very end of the Cold War, when Americans had grown tired of the Communist fight, some contemporary criticism on foreign policy had definitely made its way into the movie.~Juliann Boyles | Throughout the movie, there was an ever-present tone painting the fight against communism as a ludicrous, illogical one. The scene where Kovic's mother tells him he is doing the right thing for going off to war to fight, because God is against communism really captures that tone. I think because this movie was made at the very end of the Cold War, when Americans had grown tired of the Communist fight, some contemporary criticism on foreign policy had definitely made its way into the movie.~Juliann Boyles | ||
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| + | Its really interesting how the film shows the treatment of soldiers. Comparing the 2 parades and the treatment of the soldiers... flicking him off as he drove by, the spitting in the faces of protesting vets, the basic degradation of vets, people calling him pathetic and having lost his ability to walk for "nothing". I think this film adds to the sentiment that grew out of that anti-war movement and the negative qualities of it. Today we separate the soldiers from the war better when we start condemning. Although, we can still see many instances of American soldiers doing horrible, horrendous, in human things to detainees--like in the instance of Abu Ghraib--because of what the soldiers are told to do by the superiors and the mental climate in which they become accustom to--something unfamiliar, unrecognizable, and very primeval like how the soldiers felt in Vietnam when they committed atrocities. Granted this happened years after Stone's film was made... but it is still relevent--Jackie Reed | ||
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