Directed by: Dalton Trumbo
Cast: Timothy Bottoms, Kathy Fields, Marsha Hunt
Time: 111 minutes
During World War 1, Joe Bonham is a young American soldier who gets
severely injured by an artillery shell. He wakes up in the hospital having lost
his eyes, his mouth, his ears, his nose, and his limbs. He is presumed to be in
a vegetative state, but his mind is alive, and he finds himself stuck in what
is left of his body. As he alternated between fantasy and reminiscing about his
past, he tries to find a way to communicate again with the outside world.
This film is based on the 1938 novel of the same name, by Dalton Trumbo. It gained cult status after being used by Metallica in their music video for the song One. This is an epic anti-war film. It rattled me to the core. You can feel the plight of the main character, who is stuck in a shell of a body. It might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but I adore this one.
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