One of true benefits of motion pictures

Rating: 10/10 (28 August 2006)

Motion pictures are great story telling medium and this movie really illustrates the benefits it can bring. We could all share the experiences of Ron Kovic, and this picture can serve as a reminder of the brutality and futility that war can bring upon human beings even years after the movie was made and will continue to do so in the years to come.
I have to say that Ron Kovic is extremely courageous human being and though he has lost so much of the joyous side that life can bring and suffered tremendously through not necessarily no fault of his own, he has made a greater impact than he would have done otherwise by deciding to share his life story with us. God will judge him and even be appreciative for what he has done for the others.
National pride can have effective results but is ultimately evil because by believing in that you automatically create another adversary, that "You are not one of us".
So many people get naturalised into citizens of countries where they are not originally from, in the twenty first century romantic patroiticism must be considered evil and imposes an adverse effect in evolutionary process as a whole.
Tom Cruise's delivers one of the greatest performances of his life, well at least that's before he'd gone nuts.
I also like Willem Dafoe's performance as a paralysed vet, he is one of the gifted actors of our generation.
In short if you join a war to kill other human beings there is just likely possibility that you will get killed too. And in this equation the difference between being killed and being maimed is just an arbitary variable.