Only in the USA, the greatest country of all!

Rating: 8/10 (28 January 2009)

Wow, I am really impressed by this movie. After all, unlike those typical war movies made from Hollywood, even though the government probably don't pay them any money, most of the war movies are trying to tell the whole world how great the US soldiers are. whatever the wars they are fighting for, it seems that they are always fighting for the right cause. And the US audiences generally like to pay money to watch that kind of movies.
This movie is entirely the opposite, from what I watched from the DVD extras, not many studios were interested in financing for this movie. And it didn't make a lot of money, either. Michael J. Fox talked during the interview, at that time, a lot of people paid money to watch "honey, I shrunk the kids", look at it now, who actually remember that movie.
In those socialist countries (aka communist countries, known to the westerners), those governments always like to teach their students that in capitalist countries, greedy capitalists only goal is to make money. Only in socialist countries, can the real people make movies for all the working classes. In reality, with this kind of theme, this movie can never be made in the socialist countries. Even if it was filmed, it can never pass the government's censorship, and the directors, actors might be banned for a long, long time.
Only in USA, can people have the freedom to make a movie like this. Even though money talks in the court room, at least, some of the soldiers got sent to prisons for a long time. Those are the reasons why there are so many people say that they are proud to be US citizens.
These kind of things probably happen all over the world. In other countries, some people might even protest against the director just for making such a movie because it is not "patrotic".
I watched the extended cut on DVD, so it felt a little long. The performance is solid. The girl was very real, it felt as if she was really the girl from that real story. What a tragic story, it made me cry. From what I have seen in the extra interviews, the director seems to be the first super nice director I have ever seen, who has some high moral standards. Because of that, he was the one who actually made this movie a reality.
By the way, it seems that my comment is the 100th for this movie, great!