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I agree with Anna and Megan. Although the issue of African American civil rights was brought up briefly, I though as a whole it was underplayed. While many of the scenes neglected to have any blacks in them (which would have been accurate), the issue itself isn't brought up in many of the conversations or situations that Ron finds himself in with other African American soldiers. - Victoria Y. | I agree with Anna and Megan. Although the issue of African American civil rights was brought up briefly, I though as a whole it was underplayed. While many of the scenes neglected to have any blacks in them (which would have been accurate), the issue itself isn't brought up in many of the conversations or situations that Ron finds himself in with other African American soldiers. - Victoria Y. | ||
| − | Now this might be me just being nitpicky but after Tom Cruise was shot he was sent to the hospital. And in the scene they were using a defibrillator, which is fine because those existed then. However what bothered me was that they used this device over the top of the guys shirt (no!) while he was still drenched in his own blood (double no!). One of the things that was ingrained into my head during CPR training was that you never, never, never use any sort of AED device on a person who is wet. For some reason I think this would have also applied during Vietnam, even if it was the first war where soldiers were [http://www.cprawareness.org/history.html trained in CPR ]. | + | Now this might be me just being nitpicky but after Tom Cruise was shot he was sent to the hospital. And in the scene they were using a defibrillator, which is fine because those existed then. However what bothered me was that they used this device over the top of the guys shirt (no!) while he was still drenched in his own blood (double no!). One of the things that was ingrained into my head during CPR training was that you never, never, never use any sort of AED device on a person who is wet. For some reason I think this would have also applied during Vietnam, even if it was the first war where soldiers were [http://www.cprawareness.org/history.html trained in CPR ]. - Jenn |
== The movie as a primary source about the time/people who made it == | == The movie as a primary source about the time/people who made it == | ||
