Buffalo Soldiers

tbh the most thing I like abt this film that it's criticizing the u.s military and u.s.a in general rather than picture them as heros (it's not famous cuz of that- it has been released a short time after 9/11 so any criticism of u.s.a was unacceptable) Most of the characters aren't real soldiers most of them are prisoners has been offered to serve military instead so they aren't supposed to be in this place they should be in jail or some rehab rather than this place where they drown even more the propaganda abt the u.s military and how they picture them as heros to these young men and when they actually in- the awful truth releaved, racism,agony,poverty,stealing,balck market, etc That's making a character like knoll - who's enterd the militarily following his father's path and what he pictured this place would be like- lots of friends and honor, to be shocked by the truth , being an innocent easy target first and then developed to be a mf js like the rest of them - it's like a loop Also Lee's character is good it's representing a sadatic jerk person who's daughter reflect his conscience that he's afraid of, the ending when he left her and admitted freely of his true awfull nature was great, also he sees her as his last venerable connection to humanity, to not be completely alone, and seeing her prefer Elwood over him scares him so much that he hurts Elwood in any possible way even if it included hurting other innocent people like knoll to get what he wants (that made him also hurt other- the loop again) The ending of the film is soooo great and it reflect the propaganda of picture all soldiers as heros even if they were criminals-same propaganda that Nazis used as well, two faces of the same coin I like Elwood's relationship with Robyn- how it started to js piss her dad off (hurt loop again) and then it developed as he sees her clean, actually care abt him without wanting a thing in return so he relate to her even tho it caused him troubles-a big ones Also there are a lot of sences that reflects (in a perfect way) the idea of hurting yourself to prove to someone who hurt u that u didn't hurt, or hurting other people cuz u were hurt- or using your powers over someone weaker than u cuz someone more powerful than u used his power over u and so on I liked Berman's character soooo much - it's representing someone who's time already passed trying to hold into his old version while all those who around him don't belive in him-his wife also was good, representing someone genuinely trying whatever they could to help someone they love in their own way but it's already a done case so they js drown together even more and hurt each other , the ending is also great and how he accept his new self The trio -Elwood,Garcia and stoney- kinda reminds me of "la haine" trio, three young friends with different personalities being surrounded by this fucked up environment til they reach their inevitable ending - completing the cycle of war "In peace the warlike man attacks himself." "You see, life for me is about distractions. I try to keep looking up and forget about what's down. But when I dream... I fall" Elwood admitting that all those dirty things he does is js a distraction of facing his own fears which representing as fall-that saved his life when he overcomed n the ending "War is hell. But peace is fucking boring." representing what bordiem can leads a human to In the end of the review I don't have to say that phoenix's acting ( my fav actor ever) was great in fact the acting in general was good , and this film is full of plots UNDERRATED ASF