Colonel Coates thought he was right to fight his own war on his own will, not on the minds of four-star idiots commanding and vying for military exploits in a safe place. He believed that soldiers with morality, good military training, and no distinction between right and wrong in execution, Colonel Coates only needed ten battalions of soldiers to end the war, but it was the kind of killing Discrimination has led to the failure of the current US military. How hypocritical it is to knock down an opponent with one's own gun and then bandage it, how shameless it is to knock down an opponent with one's own bullets and then give him water to drink.
Colonel Coates has finally found his freedom, and this freedom is true freedom, and he is not dominated by anyone, not even himself, because he has become a god to some!
In the middle, the male protagonist meets a group of French people to protect his manor. A dialogue between them at the dinner table satirizes that the wars that Americans fight have nothing to do with American interests, not to protect their own things. Twenty years ago, Americans wanted to Getting the French out of Vietnam created Vietnamese independence, including the Viet Cong. Now the Americans have got their wish and replaced the French, so now the Vietnamese and Americans are fighting, but the French feel that the American war will fail like Dien Bien Phu, like an egg, after breaking the white first Flow down, and what's left is yellow, what a brilliant metaphor!
Colonel Coates said: You can kill me, but you can't say I'm a killer, you can kill me, but you can't judge me, you can kill me, but you can't interrupt me. As a film, the failure of this film is a large number of narrations and declarative dialogues. The film uses the camera to make the audience feel something. Occasionally some dialogues can be spoken directly, but they should not be too much. The time is so long but the plot is too procrastinated. The depiction of the Vietnam War battlefield is not brutal but focuses on the absurd.
At the end, the male protagonist finally killed Colonel Coates, but the native tribes gave up their resistance and let them leave safely. I think it's even more ridiculous. I don't understand at all. If the end is the male protagonist who replaced Colonel Coates as his successor, he became one of those people. The new god of man may be more acceptable to me.
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