The original intention of this film was to counterattack John Wayne's self-directed and self-acted film "The Green Berets" 20 years ago, because the film extremely beautifies and demonizes the Viet Cong. In this film, looting, rape, indiscriminate killing, and burning of villages are all done by the US military; drug abuse, incompetence, calculating each other, and even killing each other, challenge the audience's moral bottom line time and time again. There are a lot of desperate and profound lines in the film: "If you die in Vietnam, it is best to die in the first few weeks so that you don't suffer too much"; "-Do you believe what you do? -1965 Years? I believe. Now? Don’t believe.”; “We are not against the enemy, but ourselves”. This is the real war. Right and wrong are as vague as blood and flesh exploded, leaving only physical incompleteness and mental breakdown.
The classic of this film is that it shows the cruelty of war like a textbook, and it is not as obscure as "Apocalypse Now" or "Full Metal Shell". The success of the film is inseparable from the director's one-year Vietnam War experience. In fact, the protagonist Chris Taylor's life experience comes from the director himself-from a prestigious school, rich family, and prosperous, he rushed to join the war with a fever. The subtitles at the end of the film read-I would like to dedicate this film to the people who fought and died in Vietnam. This is equivalent to not only including the director himself and countless unknown martyrs, but also including murderers like Barnes in the film. It can be seen that the director criticized the war itself. As for the individual, whether it is Elias who has a conscience or Barnes who is psychopathic, they are just victims of the war. Taylor was lucky, and finally got out of the war alive. But from Elias-like kindness to Barnes-like revenge, he will be entangled in two souls from then on.
In terms of actors, the lead actor Charlie Sheen was a blockbuster with this film, but later he was not lucky enough; on the contrary, the humble translator in the film eventually became popular, and he was Johnny Depp. In addition, the director himself also played the role of a commander in the film, but the phone was blown up by a human bomb before the call was made for a minute.
The poster is cool. That is the most tragic character in the film Elias sighed when he tried to escape the roundup but was unable to return to the sky.
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