a man by see this alone he sent to vietnam to free american prisoners gilmer single handed you loser moved in in real life the united states had lost. sleep. forever. one of those people called him the teacher told all the good. news the dividing line between propaganda and patriotism between glorification and deterrence is very theme in many films. you know. they are probably. the fallout from the american disaster in vietnam caused more and more filmmakers in hollywood to take a clear stand against war and they were successful on the stone one for oscars with platoon but can a film really be anti war will have a pacifist message with all the slow some. believe the whole problem with a pacifist war film is that this is a contradiction in terms. i think it's definitely possible to make war films in such a way that at the end of the film people are filled with what classic tragedy called pity and ah or shock and horror but i think that only works by virtue of the narrative if you tell a strong story like the bridge it shocked audiences 15 years after the end if it were to whisk him in