Southern Comfort [VHS]
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Movie Review: Little known, but fascinating psychological drama!
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a raw, surprising psychological adventure in which a group of weekend Army reservists deteriorates in terms of their organization, discipline, friendships, and trust in one another. It's like an adult Lord of the Flies!!Movie Review: A Must See
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a fantastic movie. This release is long overdue. This movie has alot of suspense and keeps you wondering how it will end. Also, could this REALLY happen????Movie Review: Deeper than Vietnam!
Summary: 5 Stars
'Southern Comfort' is frequently viewed as being an allegory to the Vietnam War. This is not entirely true.Although there are references to Vietnam in the film and the stock squad-of-grunts-patrolling-the-jungle motif, in reality the film touches two essential elements of the Anglo-American psyche, beliefs that are rooted all the way back in Colonial days.
The first belief is in the American citizen-soldier, the 'minute-man' who (unlike mercenary professional soldiers) bears arms and submits to military discipline only because he believes in God and Country, and is willing to drop his plow and bear arms to defend his family and property.
The second is the old Puritan hatred of North America's vast wilderness areas, the deep-seated idea that the dark woods must be the abode of Satan, and therefore the forests and anyone living in them is evil.
So you take a squad of these good old-fashioned National Guardsmen, put them in the primeval Lousiana bayou on a training exercise and watch what develops.
Although it is easy to draw parrallels with Vietnam in 'Southern Comfort,' (in fact, when I first saw it on t.v. several years ago I came in halfway and first thought it was in Vietnam), I find it is a much more disturbing film if the viewer keeps in mind that it is set in (relatively) modern day America and questions the validity of our nation's perception of itself, independent of any foriegn influences.
Movie Review: Underrated Vietnam Allegory
Summary: 5 Stars
Clever, suspence filled Vietnam allegory that may be Walter Hill's finest film. Very no-frills, like John Carpenter's "The Thing" a bare bones approach to ordinary men suddenly thrust into an extraordinary situation.Movie Review: Paranoid? There's reason to be...
Summary: 5 Stars
Southern Comfort is one of those brilliant films that no one has heard of. The director is Walter Hill and this is one of his best films. Unfortunately, it is also one of his least well known. The film stars Peter Coyote, Powers Boothe and Keith Carradine, among others. You will see a lot of familiar faces. A group of National Guardsman are on a routine training mission in the Louisiana bayou (of course, they have just blanks). They are to go to a specified location but when they get there, there is just water. They "borrow" three canoes to continue their mission, leaving a note. As they are paddling down stream, they see the owners of the canoes on the shore. They yell to them to look at the note they left and one of the guardsman fires his machine gun filled with blanks at the crowd as a joke. The men on shore return fire (with live ammunition) and kill the ranking officer. The men get out of the canoes and into the forest as quickly as possible and soon come to realize they are being tracked by the killers. They happen upon a cajun who they just know is one of the ones who fired upon them and take him captive. As they continue through the bayou in search of the highway, they are hunted and picked off one by one. It is soon evident that the remaining ranking officer is not capable of leading them out of the wilderness alive. Eventually, only two are left and they happen upon some "nice" cajuns but trouble soon follows. It is do or die and they are in for the fight of their lives. The story is tense and exciting, the picture adequate, but the sound is substandard. If they had taken the trouble to remaster the sound in Dolby Digital, this DVD would have been simply outstanding. Look this one up, you won't regret it!