![]() It’s like a Norman Rockwell painting in which everything, including the hue, is a bit off. ![]() Stone employs his bludgeoning tactics right from the opening credits, depicting a Fourth of July parade in the late 1950s in garish slow motion, with saturated colors and ghoulish grins. It’s one man’s political disillusionment, depicted with the aggressive intent of creating disillusionment in us all. The movie asks what it really means to be an American, but it’s also asking-with unexpected rawness and vulnerability, given that the director is Oliver Stone-what it means to be a man.īased on the autobiography of Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic, who shared co-screenwriting credit (and an Oscar nomination) with Stone, Born on the Fourth of July tells the tale of an eager recruit who jumps at the chance to fight, comes home paralyzed, and after deprogramming by misery becomes a leading voice for veterans against the war. A blatant deconstruction of American iconography, Born on the Fourth of July operates more elegantly as a repudiation of masculinity.
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