How War Changes an Individual

Rating: Null/10 (27 December 1999)

This might be another film about the unpopular war that Americans should never have participated in, if JFK wasn't killed in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Watch for an early performance by Vincent D'Onofrio (of Men in Black fame) as a boot camp cadet abused by R. Lee Ermey. The boot camp scene is just a barrage of foul language and racial slurs, and a portrayal of how young men, fresh from high school, are being stripped of their civilian lives, and becoming soldiers.
Even the scene that takes place with the Vietnamese prostitute would later surface again in 1989, when a hip-hop group (The 2 Live Crew) would sample several lines that the prostitute said (e.g. Me So H*rny), for a hit song that would be a testament of the validity of the First Amendment. Overall, the film is just another portrayal of an unpopular war.