The man next to him is going to duck down behind an anti-tank obstacle and have his legs cut off by shrapnel. The camera keeps looking at the faces. Fish in a restaurant tank. The landing craft pulls into the shallows, the door drops down. Everyone in the front line of the boat is killed.
Men jump desperately into the water, off the sides.
We see one man drop into eight feet of water, struggle desperately for a moment with his 60 pounds of gear, then drown. Men are shouting out orders, but we can't make out what they're saying. We're surrounded by death, jiggled gently in the palm of his hand. As if in a hallucination, we keep thinking there's some kind of logic here, some master key. Over there, it's safe over there.