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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 | 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 | ||
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| + | Although I agree with Jonathan that the movie does not depict the soldiers in Vietnam as complex or diverse as the readings convey, one part of the reading really struck a chord with me after watching the movie. In "Things they carried," the author mentions Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, his love for Martha back home and his dramatic reaction to the killing of his man Lavender. Although in the reading Cross didn't technically kill Lavender, he felt responsible and he carried that guilt with him, leading him to tear up the pictures and letters from his love. In the movie, Kovic carried the guilt of having killed Wilson with him for a long time, leading him down a road of self-destruction, and ultimately a meeting with Wilson's family in a quest for forgiveness. Not all burdens are tangible in the cases of Cross and Kovic, but they can prove awfully heavy to bear. ~Juliann Boyles | ||
The movie fits in well with "A Rumor of War" because the author talks about how when he hears thunder all he can think about is "the roar of artillery", and in the movie when Ronnie heard a helicopter flying overhead, he had a flashback to fighting in Vietnam. ~Katherine Stinson~ | The movie fits in well with "A Rumor of War" because the author talks about how when he hears thunder all he can think about is "the roar of artillery", and in the movie when Ronnie heard a helicopter flying overhead, he had a flashback to fighting in Vietnam. ~Katherine Stinson~ | ||
