One of the Most Powerful and Emotionally Expressive Movies You'll Ever See

Rating: Null/10 (13 January 2003)

I haven't seen this movie in over a year, but today I was thinking about it, and I realized that Born on the Fourth of July, in terms of sheer emotional power, it really is in a class by itself. If any film surpasses this one as a cinematic expression of such tremendous passion, I don't know what it is.
It's funny - as graphic and as bold as this movie is, it still seems somewhat subtle. So much about what is right and what is important seems to be said through the words and actions of Tom Cruise's character, who is for a large part of the story, still a kid. That's quite a feat for a writer, a director and for an actor.
Even now, many years after I first saw it, I still think that the scene at the prom, before the kid goes off to war, with Moon River playing in the background, is one of the most emotionally penetrating things I have seen on screen.