In some steel town in Pennsylvania, there is a group of Slavic residents who are rude, belligerent, and unruly. Under the influence of wine and meat, they often make a mess wherever they go. Mike, Steve, and Nick are drafted into the army to take part in American ground operations in Vietnam. Steve is about to usher in his big wedding, and the young man's wife, Angie, became pregnant out of wedlock. This grand wedding and farewell party were held together, which may express the desire and yearning of the Soviet people for war. The tone of the whole movie is not so much the pain of the United States for the Vietnam War as it is to blacken the Soviets all the time. The Yankees used their film to once again discredit their then main rival, the Soviet Union.
Of course, this film is indeed anti-war. The director used the experiences of the Vietnamese and Nick to well confirm Sun Tzu's theory that "a militant must perish". Especially the Russian runner, an ingenious gambling game. No matter how daring people are, they will fall down on this kind of life-threatening game. The director seems to be criticizing the Soviet Union, which was attacking in the 1970s, and telling them not to play with fire. At that time, the Soviet leader, Brezhnev, showed a lot of military force and great success, which caused the Soviet economy, which already had many ills, to make things worse. It is this abnormal strength that has long predicted that the country of the Soviet Union will completely disappear from the earth. It is only a matter of time. In this way, in fact, the United States did not win the so-called hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union. It was the Soviets who brought themselves into the ditch.
The film's thinking about the Vietnam War still remains on the barbarism and killing of the yellow race, and the destruction of the American youth by the war. Due to the limitations of ideology, a neutral interpretation of the bloody and violent Vietnam battlefield. As the first live televised war, the real blood and blood shocks allowed defenders in the United States and around the world to find a way to vent. It is precisely because of one objective report after another that the US government is notorious, and it also forces them to start thinking and transforming. Fortunately, the Soviets eventually followed in the footsteps of the Americans and never stood up again after the invasion of Afghanistan.
For the friendship between Mike, Steve, and Nick, the film also focuses on the description. Whether it's in a battlefield full of death, in a horrific POW camp, or in Saigon, which is about to change hands. The deep friendship still binds the three firmly together. This kind of friendship has injected a touch of warmth into this chilling film. Including the love between Mike and Linda, this young man who was almost driven mad by the war slowly began to try a normal life. This may be the director, hoping that the society will not abandon those veterans, but use family, friendship, and love to find comfort and direction for these devastated souls in a foreign country.
The Vietnam War changed American society, and the pain caused Americans throughout the second half of the 1970s to lose their way. Therefore, the U.S. government has been working to restore the self-confidence of Americans, especially the white people in the middle and lower classes of the United States. The first step in recovery is to ease the pain and free everyone from the torture of ideology. You can also get a little inspiration for this in the best picture at the Oscars. A large number of films depicting white middle class and family problems gradually came to the forefront. This change also ultimately affects the world. The film ends with the American national anthem, and it is this American-style optimism that helps Americans defeat their opponents one by one. Although we have no way of knowing where he will go. But family, friendship, love, and the human desire to pursue beauty will help mainstream society get rid of war and killing.
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