Must See Tonight: One of the most impactful anti-war films with one of Tom Cruise’s best performances

An ambitious biopic that follows Platoon ideologically and exposes America’s problems

Making a war film should, in theory, serve as a warning of the horrors that are experienced there. However, cinematic glory and spectacle sometimes get in the way of the prevalence of this message. Perhaps you need to get as far away from the battlefield as possible for your intentions to be completely unmistakable, something Oliver Stone applied with Born on the Fourth of July.

All for the motherland

The film features Tom Cruise committed to bringing the inspiring true story of patriotic (from birth) Ron Kovic to the big screen. A proud American, young Ron is willing to give his all for his country, so he volunteers for the Vietnam War. There he experiences horrors of all kinds, ends up injured and paralyzed from the waist down, cared for in the worst conditions and even without financial assistance when he returns. His vision of the war and of his country will change radically, giving life to a strong protest movement.

Stone, a veteran of the same war, made titanic efforts to try to portray the futility of the American presence in the Asian country, not only denouncing the war as an inhumane experience but also criticizing his country’s foreign policy. After the bloody Platoon, the director returns to the denunciation with a biopic as ambitious as it is overwhelming.

Born on the 4th of July exposes and denounces with all the f &

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