Stone is arguably the most political director. Looking at the list of movies he directed, almost all follow the footsteps of the times and are closely connected with politics.
Lonnie's patriotic dream grew in his body since he was a child, and became almost crazy after he entered adulthood. He can abandon his studies, love, and family. If his country needs cannon fodder, he will rush to the battlefield without hesitation. There is no concept of politics in his mind. Even if there is, politics is not about right or wrong. He puts the glory of the country above all else and ignores his own outlook on life and values. It is estimated that the German soldiers during World War II had an idea with him. Their thoughts and behaviors may only be understood by the "angry youths". The difference is that the "angry youths" are only keen on talking online every day, while Lonnie is brave enough to go to the battlefield.
What really changed Lonnie was not the piles of terrifying corpses of the Vietnamese people, the missed shooting of his comrades, and the bullet that left him crippled for life. All of this is his paranoid patriotic dream. The result that brought him, or in the words of director Stone, was that this generation of young people paid for the mistakes of the US government. When Lonnie returned to his hometown after a period of unbearable hospital treatment, he thought that his disability was an indelible medal of military merit, and of course he should be respected: I was fighting for the country, and you would only hide in The rear complained. It’s a pity that Lonnie is not a hero in people’s eyes. It is just a war tool used by the government, a poor creature whose body was destroyed by the war and never had sex... a friend in his youth, who was not on the battlefield, should make a fortune. Those who deserve to go to college go to college; and those who go to the battlefield with a dream of heroes like him and send them home are either the urn or a crippled body like him.
If Lonnie’s change came from the heart, it is better to say that his own life state and the anti-war ideology that is increasingly occupying the top in the country forced it. One of the scenes that affected me the most was when two wounded soldiers who had experienced the Vietnam War were thrown into the wilderness by a taxi driver, they quarreled and spat each other. The actors’ performances were explosive. If they turned a deaf ear to other people’s views before Think of yourself as a hero, so now, the erosive life, the fact that they are in a wheelchair, and the crude attitude of the people around them make them soberly aware that they are really just abandoned waste on the battlefield.
General Vietnam War movies will distorted human nature very thoroughly to highlight the cruelty of war, such as Kubrick's "Full Metal Shell" (but this is not a general movie, it can be called a great), but Stone makes Lang Lang Ni has evolved into an anti-combatant. This awakening is more in line with reality. Let’s take a look at the number of veterans who wear military uniforms and lack arms and legs in the parade on Memorial Day every year. Their experience and perception are the best. Of anti-war materials.
This is the closest movie to the Oscars of Liang Tang, and I personally think that it is the most outstanding. I don’t know if it is because of the role or his performance at that time is really so explosive. In short, I think it is better than "High Aspiration" and "Night Interview". "Vampire" must be outstanding, unlike now, I only know how to be handsome, and to see how handsome you are, it is better to watch our classmate Reeves, ha ha.
Think of Stone's two recent films "Alexander the Great" and "World Trade Center". The gap is really big. I was asleep when I watched "World Trade Center", let alone moved. No matter how good these kinds of political films are made, they can only touch ordinary people like me. In the foreseeable future, the US government will provide a steady stream of materials for such films.
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