We Were Soldiers

Rating: 2/10 (22 April 2007)

There is no questioning of the Vietnam war in "We Were Soldiers" whatsoever. It is one of the ground rules in telling a story: To understand one person's actions you have to get to know one's motives, one's aim. But if the film tells us that the soldiers were only fighting for each other and not so much for their country, so why didn't they stop fighting. This film is 100% pro-war and doesn't even know why. It also draws an interesting view on gender topics. All the women in the film are depicted firstly as loving wives to their brave husbands and secondly they are doing the classical household works. And if you are asking, also in their caring for the widows they are acting as loving wives to their brave husbands. It's unbelievably reactionary. They are not even trying to hold their men back from fighting in Vietnam, because they know what the United States are fighting for. It's good that they know, because after 130 minutes the viewer of this movie won't.