One of my favorite

Rating: 10/10 (9 January 2014)

I adore this movie, not only for the remarkable performance of Demi Moore and Viggo Mortensen, but also for the way it handles its message. It's not a movie about feminists, Moore's character just want to be on the front lines, she doesn't care for equality or women's rights. The movie doesn't shy away from anything, it is brutal but not overly so. It's about much more than the army letting women fight. It's about how everything is political, how you can become a symbol without wanting to be, how the fight is never over. Moore has to fight to enter the program, and then she has to fight the Senator to stay there once she finally belonged, how even when he knows how strong she is, Mortensen still can't bring himself to risk her becoming hurt. It's a movie about how one person can change things without even wanting to. But that is not why I love this film. I love it because the main character don't take anything from anyone, be they her superior or a freaking senator. Demi Moore is a total bad-ass in this and that's why this movie is always glorious. I watched it a dozen times but I still find new things every time. This movie makes you think, but in a way where you don't even realize it. So many movies now shout their message loud and clear, but this one is more subtle about it, and you can watch as just another action movie about becoming a soldier, but you'll come out wiser or at least more prone to looking at sexism and feminism in a new way.