Casualties of War
19897.2movie
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Sony Pictures CoreDuring the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.
Sony Pictures CoreDuring the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.
By suppressing this, the film undercuts its own stark pessimism. ''Casualties of War'' has one splendid performance and another one worthy of special note. Sean Penn is extremely fine as Meserve, a natural leader with no great amount of…
Casualties of War. A powerful metaphor of the national shame that was America's orgy of destruction in Vietnam, Brian De Palma's film deals directly with the harrowing rape and murder of a Vietnamese woman by four GIs.Production: Columbia…
The movie is not so much about the event as about the atmosphere leading up to it – the dehumanizing reality of combat, the way it justifies brute force and ... “Casualties of War” is a film based, we are told, on an actual event. A…
