I’ve seen this movie at least four times now, but it’s equally great every time. Its depicting of the “dehumanification” of military training still chills me to the bones; the scene where the grunts beats Gomer Pyle is still heart-wrenching to watch; and the war part continues to strike me as realistic — to the extent that I know anything about such things.
I honestly can’t think of a single weakness about it, neither thematically, dramatically nor filmatically, so I have no choice but to give it a perfect 10/10. Again.
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Its best to agree to disagree, but I find it very weird that you at least don’t find the movie to be quite front heavy?
21. May 2007 @ 10:52 ( Permalink )
Front heavy? Why should I do that?
Sure, the first part is extremely good, but the final scenes during the retaking of Hue during the Tet Offensive aren’t much worse. Like the one where they’ve “neutralised” the sniper. She lies there, begging them to kill her, and the only one of these self-proclaimed “killers” who has the nerve to show mercy, is the one who all the time is portrayed as relatively weak, namely Joker.
23. May 2007 @ 13:55 ( Permalink )
Bah…
Even though I think I’ve got a sound argument, I don’t feel much for it any more. You remember my Blade Runner Analysis? My teacher docked me an entire grade because I had spent too much time describing the plot than I had analyzing the movie. When I asked her if she was unsatisfied with the content of the analysis and what exactly I should have taken out of the synopsis, she just shrugged. Shrugged! My best guess is that she thought that both parts should have had the same amount of words, but that’s just bullshit. If you’re over the moon in love with the work, you don’t go criticizing technicalities, especially when she well knew why I had stuffed so much info into the start. How can you judge an analysis if you haven’t seen the object I’m analyzing? I simply had to go in depth with synopsis, or she wouldn’t have known what the movie was about.
This goes twice for SF movies, cos they contain things that need explaining. I can’t just write “Voight-Kampf test” and expect my teacher to know what it is.
Argh!
I’m pissed off.
23. May 2007 @ 15:23 ( Permalink )
And with good fucking reason!
If it’s any consolation, I think your teacher is a moron. In order to analyse something and have people who haven’t read/watched/heard that something understand it, you need a thorough synopsis. And if the work in question is complex, you necessarily need a complex synopsis. Meaning that the synopsis might be longer than the analysis. Not ideal, granted, but that’s the way it is, right?
So you got a 5, then?
23. May 2007 @ 20:34 ( Permalink )
5 +, actually.
Not that it matters anyways. This years grade doesn’t count for shit.
24. May 2007 @ 14:53 ( Permalink )
Dude, it buys you goodwill with the teacher. If you’d happen to screw up next year, your teacher might go easier on you that he or she otherwise would, because he or she knows you’re good. Goodwill is always a nice thing to have.
24. May 2007 @ 21:16 ( Permalink )