This is not a fun movie. It talks about deep fundamental problems in the US of A. It won't be a box office hit because, for starters, the 30% of the population that loves stubborn, not too swift George Bush, won't go to see it. I predict Tommy Lee Jones will be nominated for an academy award for this movie. Other than being an extremely good drama, the movie talks to issues such as;1. Soldiers in their early twenties going off to pointless wars, police actions and the like . . . going on drugs after finally understanding that the war is all about oil, abstract domino theories and Presidential machoism, and never realizing what horrors, maiming and killing they will see . . . and what ugly positions they will be put in.
This is why many "vets" do not want to talk about their experiences after they come home. No one like to talk about being "taken" and made a fool of.
2. Young men and women, in their early twenties . . . mainly from the lower socioeconomic groups, being fed OUT-RIGHT lies in print and TV (emotionally directed) advertisements about the experiences they can expect if they join up.
3. How parents value system strongly effect the direction and or misdirection of kids who want to please their parents. In this movie (inadvertently) the parents of a kid get grief because the youngster tries to live up to the fathers image of what he should be.
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