Female warrior
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Female warrior |
| Original title | A Soldier's Sweetheart |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1998 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Thomas Michael Donnelly |
| script | Thomas Michael Donnelly |
| production | William S. Gilmore |
| music | Gary Chang |
| camera | Jacek Laskus |
| cut | Anthony Sherin |
| occupation | |
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The Warrior (Original Title: A Soldier's Sweetheart ) is an American drama film directed by Thomas Michael Donnelly from 1998 . The script by Thomas Michael Donnelly is based on the short story Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong from the book The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien .
action
The events are shown from the perspective of Rat Kiley, who tells the story to an officer in the field.
A paramedic unit is deployed in the Vietnam War in 1967 . Council Kiley mockingly describes the situation that the enemy is leaving the unit alone because they are sending wounded soldiers back to the United States, which is helping to demoralize the Americans. The unit shares its camp with the Green Berets , a special unit.
Fossie calls in his girlfriend Marianne, who lives in Cleveland , Ohio . She quickly wins the sympathy of the soldiers. One night Fossie wakes Kiley and says Marianne has disappeared. Kiley looks to see if she's spending the night with one of the soldiers, then they search the camp without finding her. In the morning, the armed Marianne returns with a patrol of the Green Berets. Fossie talks seriously to her, but she disappears with the special unit for three weeks. After returning, Marianne moves in with the Green Berets. She tells Fossie how alive and electrified she feels on the job.
Marianne sometimes takes on missions that are too dangerous for the other elite soldiers. One day she goes into the jungle and disappears there without a trace. A body or Marianne's weapon is never found. Kiley is transferred to another unit.
The narrative is interrupted by an attack by the Vietnamese. Kiley is cut off from his unit during the fight in the middle of the jungle. Suddenly he sees Marianne sneaking through the jungle. He follows her wordlessly.
Reviews
Elspeth Haughton wrote in the Apollo Guide that the film is a metaphor for the lost innocence, as we know it from numerous other Vietnam films. The film is characterized by the fact that a woman is in the traditionally male-occupied area. Her “Amazon-like” psyche represents human brutality. The concept is “clever”, but the implementation of Donnelly is bad. The narration of the voice-over disturbs the identification with the participants in the story (“a strategy that yanks us from the story's substance”). The allegories are often too "clichéd". Most characters are poorly developed.
Awards
The film won the Golden Reel Award in 1999 for sound editing and was nominated for an Emmy Award .
background
The film was shot in New Zealand . It had its world premiere on June 9, 1998 at the Seattle International Film Festival . On September 16, 1998, he was presented at the Toronto Film Festival .
Web links
- The warrior in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The warrior at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ apolloguide.com ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Criticism by Elspeth Haughton ( memento of the original from October 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Locations according to the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ Premiere dates according to the Internet Movie Database
