I find it hard to say if this is an anti-war movie. Rather than anti-war, I think the director wants to capture the elusive state of human nature in extreme conditions. The film does capture the devastation caused by the war from beginning to end, but in some shocking shots, the director's mood is scrutiny and calm, rather than compassion and criticism. Not to mention the scene in which Pyle committed suicide, but to the depiction of the last Vietnamese girl's struggle before her death, hatred, indifference, hesitation, anger, intolerance, sympathy for herself, it's hard to say what the clown's emotions were at that time, while the ground kept struggling The moaning sniper is more like a dying beast than a human, and it is difficult to arouse the audience's empathy.
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