A Lot Of Stuff

Madness is only the beginning of what these soldiers are going through. Just by the opening scene in the hotel room, when Captain Ben is going insane, it shows the psychological effects of what the war was capable of. In terms of madness, the scenes during the war showed what I believe to be was craziness. The incident into how the soldiers treated (well, mostly the Lieutenant Colonel) the Vietnamese forces once they had killed them, was horrific. For example, the scene when Kilgore marks who he had killed by throwing cards on them. He wanted to make it known that he was a force not to be messed with. He plays the entire role as if he does not even care that the war is being fought. All of these soldiers are risking their lives, and they expect to be brought back home, alive, with hope that what higher powers were commanding, were to be true. Instead, these higher powers seem to care more about surfing the perfect wave, rather than care for their own soldiers.

Some themes I see throughout this film are ones of death and idiocy. For one, it seems as if the whole war being fought were as if it were in a video game. The commanding powers had no real idea of what was actually going on during the war. They were sitting back making all of the plans, while the real soldiers were the ones who were having to trust these plans. Some of these people to me seemed pretty idiotic in their ways of handling certain situations as well. Also, in terms of death, that is all I see happening in the entire film. The scene when they are driving by boat to the beach shows a young Vietnamese child who's face is covered in blood. If that does not scream insanity, I do not no what will.