Rambo: First Blood Part II is a movie about a Vietnam War veteran who is sent back to Vietnam to go look for POW’s from the war. He is highly qualified for the mission but also he explains how he is “expendable” to the military. This meaning that they are not very concerned with his life.
The movie shows the point of view of a soldier who has a grudge with the war and to how the soldiers were treated after it. When Rambo is first approached about the mission he asks Colonel Trautman, “Sir, do we get to win this time?” This shows Rambo’s grudge with the war and how the American side was not a winner. When in Vietnam on the river boat with Co he tells her how after returning to America he was faced with another kind of war. He says he was in a “war against all the soldiers returning, it’s the kind of war don’t win.” Rambo feels mistreated as a veteran of the war after returning home. The idea of Rambo being an “expendable” soldier is also seen when the helicopter is ordered to abort the rescue. The movie is showing how the soldiers were mistreated by corrupt government officials.
Although the political aspect of soldiers versus the government is shown throughout the movie, the main motivation of the movie, like other Stallone movies, is just action based. Rambo performs almost impossible maneuvers in order to survive the movie with barely any harm done to him. This is all done while killing dozens of Vietnamese practically by himself. It is a movie that would entertain action loving people and without much more depth than a soldiers resentment. Rambo ends the movie by explaining that he just wants the country to love the soldiers as much they love it.
Rambo: First Blood Part II is a movie about a Vietnam War veteran who is sent back to Vietnam to go look for POW’s from the war. He is highly qualified for the mission but also he explains how he is “expendable” to the military. This meaning that they are not very concerned with his life.
ReplyDeleteThe movie shows the point of view of a soldier who has a grudge with the war and to how the soldiers were treated after it. When Rambo is first approached about the mission he asks Colonel Trautman, “Sir, do we get to win this time?” This shows Rambo’s grudge with the war and how the American side was not a winner. When in Vietnam on the river boat with Co he tells her how after returning to America he was faced with another kind of war. He says he was in a “war against all the soldiers returning, it’s the kind of war don’t win.” Rambo feels mistreated as a veteran of the war after returning home. The idea of Rambo being an “expendable” soldier is also seen when the helicopter is ordered to abort the rescue. The movie is showing how the soldiers were mistreated by corrupt government officials.
Although the political aspect of soldiers versus the government is shown throughout the movie, the main motivation of the movie, like other Stallone movies, is just action based. Rambo performs almost impossible maneuvers in order to survive the movie with barely any harm done to him. This is all done while killing dozens of Vietnamese practically by himself. It is a movie that would entertain action loving people and without much more depth than a soldiers resentment. The movie serves for the soldiers who felt that they lost the war to get some sort of a win. Rambo ends the movie by explaining that he just wants the country to love the soldiers as much they love it.