Word: sergeant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film opens as a group of American combat soldiers stand before a C-130 transport plane ready to carry them to the Vietnamese front. A voice from above the plane perhaps that of their sergeant tells them that they are the best soldiers that America has to offer and that they are about to go out and teach a bunch of "communist gooks" to respect America...
...scene then briefly changes to a swamp in Vietnam where that group of American soldiers is quickly shot down by the Viet Cong. It changes again to a high school graduation in 1989 where the commencement speaker tells his audience in words hauntingly reminiscent of that wartime sergeant that the class of '89 is the best America has to offer and that by struggling hard, they can forge an America that the world will respect once again...
...Wyandotte detective sergeant Dan Galeski found problems in DeLisle's story. The father reportedly said he got out of a car window only after the wheels touched the bottom of the river. In fact, the current had flipped the auto onto its roof. Some witnesses said they saw DeLisle in the water while the taillight was still visible. Others reported that a day earlier, a car with one taillight had moved slowly along the dead-end street...
...story, recounted in a grinding, realistic style that is unlike Brian De Palma's usual manner of playing fast and loose with death, is simple to describe. A small unit under the command of a Sergeant Meserve (Sean Penn, in an uncompromising performance) sets off on a long-range reconnaissance mission. On Meserve's orders, it stops at a peasant village, where it abducts a young girl and sadistically binds and gags her for the many awful hours of their trek. The girl, who is heartbreakingly played by a delicate newcomer named Thuy Thu Le, will serve as "portable...
...script, by playwright David Rabe (Streamers, Hurlyburly), introduces some complexities into this schematic story. Eriksson owes his life to Meserve's military skills. The sergeant, who is not presented as a psychopath, and the other men are in a furor because a buddy has been killed in an ambush at a supposedly pacified village. Eriksson has an interesting speech in which he argues that the standard rationale for bad wartime behavior ("We might at any second be blown away") is exactly wrong. It is precisely because soldiers live inches from death that they should be "extra careful about what...