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Clementina 2022-10-16 17:29:47
[Film Review] Coming Home (1978) 7.5/10
Hal Ashby's anti-war manifesto COMING HOME has a opening killer and ending - an improv conversation from real-life paraplegic Vietnam War vets, among whom, Luke Martin (Voight) remains silent, paying due respect to other's authenticated voice; and for the ending , Ashby goes understatedly poetic,...
William Johnson
Extended Reading
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Luke Martin: Are you nervous?
Sally Hyde: [laughs] Yes.
Luke Martin: Why are you nervous? This isn't "Have a gimp over for dinner, night" is is? You're not one of those weirdos.
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Luke Martin: Do you know that when I dream, I don't have, I'm not in the chair? I don't even have a chair in my dream. I have legs. When I was a kid, I used to jump in my mother's kitchen and touch the ceiling. She used to get pissed off because I'd leave my handprints on the ceiling, you know. I still check the snow reports, the conditions at Mammoth. I'm still the same person. It's funny, people look at me and they see something else; but, they don't see who I am.
