The film can be divided into two parts from the end of the training. The first part is the demonic training of the recruits by the instructors, and the latter part shows us the whole picture of the Vietnam War from the perspective of the war correspondent.
The first and second parts satirize the Vietnam War in which the United States fought for freedom from two angles. The first is that when recruiting, there is no clear standard, whether it is overweight or short-sighted, everyone can enter the army. Then the training method of the instructors is the workplace pua, by trampling on the dignity of the recruits and degrading the personality of the recruits to make the recruits obey the orders. This way of training is simply an insult to the military. In the end, Fatty couldn't bear the pressure and beat the instructor to death. If I did, I would beat all the people who bullied him to death. But running a song is fun.
When it comes to the Vietnam War, the focus is on the injustice of the war. The first is the dialogue between the captain and the clown. He said that the helmet of the killer and the badge representing peace cannot be worn together. The Americans participated in the Vietnam War to bring them freedom. When the photographer asked a soldier who was an Indian, the soldier replied that it was Vietnamese. In fact, it is satirizing that the so-called freedom of the Vietnam War was just an excuse, but it was actually a massacre like the Indians. Then when the clown took the plane to the front, the soldiers in the plane shot and killed a lot of civilians, and one soldier said he didn't want to go back to the continental United States because there was no one to shoot. Soldiers have been trained by that training system to become emotionless killing machines. Normal war is like a picture captured by a documentary photographer, a one-sided slaughter. The most terrifying thing is that many soldiers were interviewed and believed that their war was just. The last reconnaissance battle shows us the disciplinarianship of the American army, the soldiers ignore the orders of their superiors, and they are emotional. In the end, the gourd baby saves the grandfather and is killed by a female Vietnamese soldier.
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