From the very beginning of the film, the story of a rifle and a man, and the black and white pictures, let people gradually understand that the man's story is the story of the protagonist's father. The story of a man who survived the Vietnam War but was completely insane.
War, war destroyed this man and destroyed this family.
Then the male protagonist began his military school life, surrounded by violence, changed various terms, and was shaped into a standard jarhead. After graduating from the military academy and joining the Marine Corps, I thought it was a great luck and became the best sniper. Unfortunately, he was a sniper who never fired a shot from the beginning to the end of the war.
The overall style of this film is very depressing and dark. Even the sun in the deserts of the Middle East cannot penetrate this gloom, and Swafford carried out his military career in this gloom. From the beginning of sniper training, he was excited, because this is the best position in the whole army, training the most outstanding soldiers, hundreds of shooting training every day makes him feel that he is one with the gun in his hand , the gun roared and fired, as if it was shooting its own anger. But these rages are not directed at any target, they just fly into the endless void, like empty fists, making people even more uncomfortable.
Finally, Swafford finally waited, and when the war came, when the potheads watched the Vietnam War movie in the movie, accompanied by the passionate music, the bombers on the screen dropped countless bombs, turning the ground into a A sea of fire. The soldiers watching the movie boiled, roared, and shouted, and they brought themselves into the scene on the screen, and their anger slanted out like the picture, destroying everything they could see. But at the HIGHest moment, the movie came to an abrupt end, the piercing alarm sounded, the war broke out, and the climax of the termination of the potheads was led to another country - Iraq.
It's a pity that war is not what they imagined, it can satisfy men's dreams of blood and iron, kill countless enemies, and shed blood on the frontier. They just walk, drink, and pee. The pent-up anger continued to expand, but there was no way to vent it, and they became more and more angry. Physically, they are far away from home, away from their girlfriends and wives, tormenting their thoughts, sexual desires, and worries about their other half's loyalty all the time. These potheads are going crazy. And their only purpose here is to support them, but they haven't come to participate in the war, and they haven't even had a chance to shoot a single shot.
This is irony, and the film uses this sky-covering depression to say this kind of irony. You think you want to defend your family and the country, but all the things you do are simply gathering your anger, but this anger has nowhere to go But go, all you can do is ignite yourself. The part where Swafford wanted to lose control of his emotions and wanted to commit suicide in the film was not only because he was punished and downgraded, but more because his anger was about to burn himself out. Just like the oil well that was set on fire in the film, the desert that was burning and raining black, "Mother Earth is bleeding", what the pot cover said is actually what the film wants to tell us, war will always hurt people, it is this tolerance Against our planet, what spews out of the ground is oil, and it is the anger in the human heart that can ignite everything.
At the end of the film, they finally have a chance to perform a mission, get to the sniper position, wait, the target appears, take aim, get permission to fire, put the trigger on the finger, like training, and finally shoot a person with their own hands. But just like the movie interrupted by the war notice, their chance to kill was cut off by a kick from an army officer. "Let's shoot it once, one more person or one less person makes no difference to your air strike!" The Swafford observer cried, saying that he was too embarrassed to shoot, from the military school to the present Their depression, the depression from the beginning of the war to the present, the depression in which the war scene in their hearts and the intense conflict between reality still cannot be shot in the end, and their anger is destined to only burn in their hearts.
The war was over, they didn't shoot a single shot, they burned their uniforms, because they didn't need to use them anymore, the poor helpless raised their guns and fired into the air, just like they had been doing masturbation, let themselves The anger shot into the air, let his anger slowly fry himself, swallow the bitter fruit of the war, destroy himself, and then destroy his future home.
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