This movie was very difficult for me to watch because I am very sensitive to real-life stories and hardships. There were many scenes where I had to turn my head to shield myself from the blood or murder. This movie brought to life the Vietnam War, which I had regarded as just another war to add to the long list of wars ever fought. It showed me the conditions American, South Vietnamese, and the Vietcong went through, along with the aftermath the war had on individual people and communities.

Probably the most difficult scene to watch was towards the middle of the movie. The three of them were captured by Vietcong soldiers, and brought to a Vietcong station, where the

It made me depressed to see how the American soldiers had so much ranking in another people's country. Although there were South Vietnamese soldiers fighting alongside the Americans, I could tell that their status was lower because they had dark hair and a Vietnamese name. When Nicky went into the Vietnamese bar and nightclub, the women in there treated them royally (they wanted something in return, of course). The North Vietnamese seemed like they were not even people in the American soldier's eyes. When the soldiers were in North Vietnam, they would shoot any civilian, man, woman, child, baby, anybody.

This movie is similar, yet different to the movie "Born on the Forth of July." "Born on the Forth of July" showed more of the affects of the Veteran after they war and how the people in his community didn't see him as a hero, like they did to the WWII ve

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