With the Vietnam War as the background, the film exposes the brutal crimes of the US military and expresses the hatred of war and the cherishment of peace
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"Casualties of War" uses parallel montages to describe events to show and highlight the fierce inhuman desires of soldiers in the Vietnam War under the slack military discipline. In the film, Eriksson is the embodiment of axiom and justice caught in the conflict between officials and people, inhumanity and humanity. His behavior is a challenge to inhumanity, and this challenge is from an extreme calmness of reason. Starting off, its perspective is always contrasted with the tyrannical irrationality. In a pathologically closed structure, the war between humanity and inhuman morality has clearly surpassed the reality of the war in the general sense. Therefore, an in-depth analysis of the truth of the crimes after the war has become the theme of gravity rendering that "Casualties of War" emphasizes. With an open artistic pattern, the character image behavior and thought structure bearing the narrow conceptual level, and the opposition and resistance in the "that closed fierce battle" is undoubtedly the focus of the film
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