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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Taking Chance quotes

  • 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.

  • LtCol Mike Strobl: [voiceover] Chance Phelps was wearing his St. Christopher medal when he was killed on Good Friday. Eight days later, I handed the medallion to his mother. I watched them carry him the final fifteen yards. I felt that as long as he was still moving, he was somehow still alive. When they put him down in his grave, he'd stopped moving. I didn't know Chance Phelps before he died. But today, I miss him.