Review of Casualties of War (1989) by Anthony S — 23 May 2004

[font=Times New Roman][size=3]The theme of this movie is right on the money about some of the stuff that went on in Vietnam. There is so much that has not been told yet, and probably won't be. Like Platoon and some of things that happen in that movie is that this movie shows that even the U.S. could can be just as bad or even worst than the enemy. Not many people realize that Sven Eriksson is a real person who actually experienced much of what Michael J. Fox's character went through in this movie. This is easily the most true to life of all the Vietnam war movies. Casualties of War is probably the closest American cinema will get to the obvious atrocities of My Lai an analogy is clear with the lenient sentences given to the(What really happen to them)offending soldiers here who rather than be given the death sentence that such acts(rape and murder)denote they get a few years in prison and are set free shortly after. The message is, the Geneva convention apart, that "foreigners" (in this case the Vietnamese, but they could be Afghans, Iraqis or Haitian) don't really matter at all. [/size][/font].

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[font=Times New Roman][size=3]If you're not moved by this movie and what happens in it, you may not be human at all.[/size][/font].