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true absurdity
D'angelo 2022-03-23 09:01:55
In fact, the male protagonist himself is an ordinary person with high self-esteem, but fate will make you from a mortal to a hero, and then from a hero to a cripple. And heroes and cripple are relative. Everything you go through that you think is unforgettable is just shit in the eyes of others. You feel worthwhile, and you live. But when your faith collapses, how do you find the proof that you are alive, how do you find the reason why you are alive. What are you going through for what? This film indicts the absurdity of war from the life of a civilian.
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Born on the Fourth of July quotes
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Jamie Wilson - Georgia: What's done is done, sir. I can't ever forgive you... but maybe the Lord can.
Mrs. Wilson: We understand, Ron. We understand the pain you've been going through.
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Ron Kovic: We went to Vietnam to stop communism!... We shell women and children!
Mrs. Kovic: You didn't shoot women and children! What are you saying?
Ron Kovic: That was the war, communism, the incidious evil! They told us to go.
Mrs. Kovic: Yes, yes that's what they told us.
Ron Kovic: Thou shalt not kill, Mom. Thou shalt not kill women and children! Thou shalt not kill! Remember? Isn't that what you taught us? Isn't that what they taught us?
Mrs. Kovic: Stop it! Stop it!