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Cash already mentioned this, but Oliver Stone himself was a Vietnam Vet, which I did not find out until after watching the movie. This makes me wonder about the motives behind making this film. The Gulf War began a year later in August of 1990, so how much of an influence did the build-up of that war have on Stone and Kovic? Was this more than just a re-telling of one veteran's story? Was this film a tool to try and get Americans to oppose the Gulf War? Kovic was arrested 12 times for political protests, and he was an active protestor against the Gulf War. - David F. | Cash already mentioned this, but Oliver Stone himself was a Vietnam Vet, which I did not find out until after watching the movie. This makes me wonder about the motives behind making this film. The Gulf War began a year later in August of 1990, so how much of an influence did the build-up of that war have on Stone and Kovic? Was this more than just a re-telling of one veteran's story? Was this film a tool to try and get Americans to oppose the Gulf War? Kovic was arrested 12 times for political protests, and he was an active protestor against the Gulf War. - David F. | ||
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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 | ||
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