The United States Six Shooter

Rating: 9/10 (16 December 2009)

The director was saying that the draft was just like shooting yourself. This can be literal or figurative in that if you go to Vietnam you're going to get killed or at the very least psychological damage. One could say that the United States government was the French man offering the men to win some money. This is also very telling to how far the government was willing to go to fight communism during the cold war era. I think this worked particularly well with the movie because it continued with the somber mood that they were trying to maintain throughout the film. I agree with how he implemented the metaphor and i think it is telling to the times.