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"In spite of everything, we felt a strange attachment to Vietnam and, even stranger, a longing to return." These words from ''A Rumor of War'' is closely related to Tom Cruise's character. He joins the war initially b/c he finds the thought of combat "attractive" (a term used by this reading). Upon his return, he encounters a brother who has gained liberal thoughts on the war, but Tom Cruise struggles to understand this opposition because of his nostalgia. Furthermore, the reading explains that the overall mission in Vietnam was not to gain position or territory, but to simply "kill communists." These are very powerful words and something Oliver Stone was able to depict well in the movie. - David F. | "In spite of everything, we felt a strange attachment to Vietnam and, even stranger, a longing to return." These words from ''A Rumor of War'' is closely related to Tom Cruise's character. He joins the war initially b/c he finds the thought of combat "attractive" (a term used by this reading). Upon his return, he encounters a brother who has gained liberal thoughts on the war, but Tom Cruise struggles to understand this opposition because of his nostalgia. Furthermore, the reading explains that the overall mission in Vietnam was not to gain position or territory, but to simply "kill communists." These are very powerful words and something Oliver Stone was able to depict well in the movie. - David F. | ||
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| + | This movie does not really fit in well with what they carried in my opinion because it does not show a real variety in the soldiers in Vietnam. The point of that reading was that they didn't all carry the same things and quite a few things they took were personalized, but this was not shown in the movie. The movie never go anywhere near the depth of the readings in conveying the Vietnam war experience for soldiers. - Jonathan Bell | ||
== 3 Movie as primary source about makers/time/setting/genre == | == 3 Movie as primary source about makers/time/setting/genre == | ||
