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Casualties of War
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| Amazon.com | Based on a true story, this Brian De Palma film casts Michael J. Fox as a soldier in Vietnam in a squad led by Sean Penn. While on patrol, in the wake of an ambush that has left friends dead, they kidnap and rape a Vietnamese woman--then murder her. But F More |
| "[The film] manages to churn out an effective moral conflict..." "...A superb film. DePalma may have found here the perfect arena for his darkly voluptuous expertise..." "...CASUALTIES OF WAR is the strongest, the simplest and the most painful of all the Vietnam movies....It's about the agony of seeing terrible things too clearly..." "...A portrait of hell so harrowing it's impossible to shake....De Palma's merciless vision is unblinking..." |
| Journalist Daniel Lang's story on which the film was based ran in "The New Yorker" magazine in 1969. The actual events depicted in the article and film took place in 1966. Lang's story was later released as a book. Shot on location in Phuket, Phang-Nga, and Kanchanaburi, Thailand. It was also shot in Canada and San Francisco. Filming took place over a four and a half month period from April to August 1989. Film was screened at many festivals, among them The Deauville Film Festival, the Tokyo International Film Festival, and the London Film Festival. The film is a prequel to the 1972 film "The Visitors" by Elia Kazan. Budget approximately $22 million. First film directed by DePalma since his 1987 "The Untouchables" which launched Kevin Costner's international stardom, and won the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for Sean Connery. |
| A young soldier arrives in Vietnam and is assigned to a unit of men who have been in the jungle for many months. Their sergeant has only one more mission to complete before he can go home, and though he has been a successful soldier, he has lost his will to fight or to care for his troop. When soldiers on duty prevent the sergeant from going to a nearby town to visit a prostitute on the night before his last mission, the enraged sergeant tells his unit that he will seek revenge. He concocts a plan where his troop will accompany him to the village, kidnap a woman and force her to come with them on the mission in order to furnish the group sexually. The newest soldier in the troop does not want to go along with the plan, but the sergeant's charisma convinces the rest of the men. When they eventually reach the village, the young man again protests, which fuels the sergeant's rage, and prompts him to initiate a brutal gang rape and murder of a young village woman. The film then moves to events after the troop's return from Vietnam, where the young soldier has decided to have his unit court martialled. |
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