Kit Lazer’s review published on Letterboxd:
My Dad was almost 40 when I was born, so he was old enough to fight in Vietnam. He joined the army in 1969. I remember thinking of him the first time I watched this, trying to imagine what his life must have been like — not in the military, but in the town during the first act of this film, before they leave.
My Dad never went to war, he broke a Sergeant’s jaw with a mop wringer and went to prison for a few years instead. It ruined his life but it’s movies like this that make me wonder if he wasn’t still somehow lucky.