The last time I watched Oliver Stone's movie was "Field Platoon", and I still have a fresh memory of that chaotic and dangerous battlefield. It was also after reading "Field Platoon" that I began to admire those soldiers who killed red eyes in the chaos of the army but still could distinguish between the enemy and me.
"Born on the Fourth of July" is called the second part of Stone's "Vietnam Trilogy", but in fact the story it tells has little to do with the main battlefield. Ron, a patriotic young man played by Tom Cruise, will Serving the motherland is regarded as the greatest ambition in life. In the first half of the film, he shows more of his teenage years: from the war role-playing with his friends at the beginning, to participating in various competitions (baseball, wrestling), his enthusiasm for victory The desire is also increasing day by day. In the wrestling team training scene, the film echoes the coach's rant—learning to sacrifice to win. So when Ron talks to a group of brothers about the great ambition to join the army and fight, what I see is not a group of warriors with "serving the country" engraved on their backs, but a group of reckless men who are obsessed with winning.
"To be a winner" - that's what Ron really espouses. It was the inculcation of "the country needs to win, and the country needs our dedication to win" that made the Rons see the ladder to victory. And when you think about it this way, serving the motherland has become an out-and-out joke: the government uses it as a passionate propaganda, and the youth use it as a high-sounding excuse.
After going to the battlefield, Ron found that this place was too far from the victory he dreamed of. First, he accidentally killed a woman and a child, and then killed his comrade by mistake, and then he was shot and caused hemiplegia. Soldiers on the battlefield often feel their own insignificance better. This experience is different from the wrestling that Ron participated in before. The latter is a competitive sport that can turn the tide on its own, while war is a struggle of millions of people. the behavior of.
Returning to his hometown, Ron has undergone tremendous changes both on the outside and on the inside. At first he showed no signs of breaking down, until more and more news reports, anti-war demonstrations and even his own brother openly raised the war to him. Ridiculous, Ron finally had a breakout. For the first time, he faced reality—he released everything he had built up on that drunken night. Failure - this is the thing that Ron fears the most in his life, his death before his apprenticeship, being scolded to a speechless government... all frustrated him, and the place that frustrates Ron the most is that name What the bar veterans say: It's your choice.
Ron lost everything including his faith in the first half of his life, but luckily he didn't get lost in Mexico, and he was able to ask "what should we do" questions. Nor did he lose the grit, loyalty and courage he possessed. And these three things can create a comeback and get him the next opportunity to make a free choice - there will be a first defeat, but there will never be a last defeat - Stone gives all the inner strength A hope for a turnaround.
2013.06
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