Taking Chance

Chelsea 2022-04-19 09:03:13

American film Taking Chance (escorting Chance), a minimalist story: transporting Iraqi soldiers killed in the war to their hometown for burial. Like a documentary, it calmly uses a number of very moving conversations with moving details to record the heroic treatment and respect, solemn, sacred and great.
Every minute is touching!
The most unforgettable special military salute with many close-ups: the hand is slowly raised and slowly lowered. So handsome, so cool! Like a totem, like an ideal country, it reflects people's inner impulse for dedication and heroic complex.
"He died like a hero; more importantly, he lived like a hero!"
Even the US military propaganda film is impeccably brilliant.

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Extended Reading
  • Roselyn 2022-03-27 09:01:23

    Respect for the dead is respect for the living

  • Madelyn 2022-04-24 07:01:25

    Those military salutes and attention salutes again and again. . . . . . .

Taking Chance quotes

  • Rich Brewer: Nobody in my family's in the military and none of my friends. But I thought about joining up. Yeah, but I was too chickenshit.

    [chuckles, then silence]

    Rich Brewer: Sorry, I mean too chicken.

    LtCol Mike Strobl: You can say shit.

    Rich Brewer: Oh, cool. And plus the whole haircut thing. I'm in a band and, you know, you gotta keep it long to keep the ladies happy.

  • 1st Lt. Dan Robertson (Chance Phelp's platoon commander): [voiceover, from his 09 April 2004 letter to the Phelps family] It's ironic, but I am certain that if the world had more men like Chance Phelps, there wouldn't be a need for a Marine Corps.