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The film is set just before the fall
of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and it examines the criminal sub-culture
among U.S. army units posted in what was then West Germany: Joaquin
Phoenix stars as a soldier who has joined the army in order to avoid
going to jail. A sergeant, and the clerk to the battalion commander,
he finds interesting ways to ward off boredom while developing a
very profitable business dealing drugs. Also with Scott Glenn, Ed
Harris, Anna Paquin and Brian Delate. Directed by Gregor Jordan. [1:38]
SEX/NUDITY 6 - A man and a woman are shown having sex:
she sits on top of him and thrusts up and down (he's bare-chested
and she wears a teddy top), the woman kisses down the man's chest to
below his waist and he moans. A man and a woman kiss, she takes off
her shirt and pants (we see her in bra and panties), they then kiss
while in a pool, she wraps her legs around his waist and they
presumably have sex. A man and a woman kiss, she lifts her top and
he kisses her abdomen. A man and a woman kiss a few times. A man
massages a woman's shoulders trying to seduce her. A man admires a
woman as she swims. People dance together in a club. We see a man
with a towel wrapped around his waist (from the back) and we see a
man in a T-shirt and boxer shorts. Women are shown in swimsuits that
reveal cleavage, bare abdomens and bare thighs. A woman wears a
negligee. A woman wears a low-cut dress exposing cleavage.
VIOLENCE/GORE 7 - Two men stab each other in the
stomach in slow motion. A man opens a cabinet, sees a grenade and is
thrown back by the explosion (he's killed). A man hits his head on
the corner of a table and falls to the floor (we see blood on the
floor and his head and we hear that he is dead). A man tries to push
a man out a window, another man holds them at gunpoint, the two men
fall out of the window and land hard on the ground (one dies and the
other is injured). From a distance we see a body fall from a
rooftop. A tank drives through a street market crowded with people:
it knocks down and drives over carts full of food, people run and
scream, and it drives through a gas station knocking down the pumps
and causing a huge explosion that blows two men through the air (we
see their charred remains smoldering later). Many men are shot
during a shoot-out between MPs and soldiers (we see men hit and
blood spurt). A group of men beat another man, another man holds a
gun on them, and he shoots at them. A man punches and kicks a man in
the face several times (we see him with a very bloody and bruised
face later). A man is punched hard in the face and we see him later
with a bloody and bruised face after a beating. A man is punched in
the face and threatened. Many men pile out of a truck with guns
drawn and aim at other men. A building shakes and explodes and we
hear that many people died in the blaze. Many men shoot weapons at a
car and it explodes. A man kicks a TV set and shatters the glass.
Two men argue aggressively, a man yells at another man, and a man
threatens a man. A man grabs a woman and carries her out of a
building while she struggles with him. A man imagines himself
falling through the sky like a bomb and he hits the ground (we see
this several times in his dreams). A man talks about his son having
been tortured and killed. People talk about a man having lost a leg
and the use of an arm. A woman has a large burn scar on her stomach
and we hear that a cigarette ignited her nightgown when she was
young.
PROFANITY 10 - 91 F-words and derivatives, 43
scatological terms, 11 anatomical terms, 14 mild obscenities, 7
religious profanities, 10 religious exclamations. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - War, peace, the Berlin Wall and
its fall, Vietnam, incompetence, the black market, dreams, drug
trade, bribery, fear of heights, trust, military operations,
charisma, John F. Kennedy.
MESSAGE - There is always a war going on. War is hell
but peace is boring. The best fighters are those with nothing to
lose.
(Note: People are shown smoking cigarettes and drinking
alcohol. A man shoots up with a drug and people get high from the
fumes of drugs being cooked. A man talks about cooking a drug to
make another drug and we see the cooking operation. We hear about
people selling drugs and see them conducting transactions.)
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