It is almost the 4th of July 2005, this movie's important message is applicable to Iraq.

Rating: 10/10 (3 July 2005)

I am a Canadian and I grew up during the Vietnam war. In the media, I read and saw it as it happened and also personally knew Vets, C.Os, dodgers, deserters; they all had their reasons for doing what they did and all suffered in their hearts and minds and it nearly tore America apart. The Vietnam war was a tragedy and Oliver Stone's film portrayed it in a very important way which should have made everyone very reluctant to pursue a similar military conflict. Now, many years after the war in Vietnam, the world is experiencing the war in Iraq (In spite of what Bush says, it's still an ongoing war). The message in Born on the Fourth of July needs to be retold, either by re-releasing the film or newly made to relate to Iraq. Although I am not an American (some of my family are and one of my brothers and his family has emigrated to the U.S.), every day I think about the agony and misery that Americans are going through in Iraq and in the U.S. for a war which is supposed to be about liberation and democracy but has turned out to be otherwise. I think about the U.S. soldiers and civilians who support them who are endangered, killed, and we must never ignore or forget the psychologically and physically wounded who will have to live with the terrible consequences of their experiences. Born on the Fourth of July resonates into the present.