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...surface, Coming Home is the story of a love affair between the wife (Jane Fonda) of an unflinchingly patriotic Marine Corps captain (Bruce Dern) who is sent off to fight in Vietnam and a disabled and disillusioned veteran, played by Jon Voight. But beyond that, this film is about the aggression, insensitivity, and sexism; about the types of thought (or lack of it) that render these things acceptable. Although the film is set in Los Angeles in 1968, at the beginning of the Tet Offensive, it is not a specific criticism of our Vietnam policies. Rather, it attempts to prove...
...movie centers on Sally Hyde (Jane Fonda), the wife of a volatile Marine captain (Bruce Dern) who goes off to Viet Nam determined to bring back a Communist machine gun as a souvenir. Sally had been a typically docile service housewife, living in a ticky-tacky base apartment, but her husband's absence forces her to change her ways. She takes up volunteer work at the base hospital, makes new friends and asserts her independence by renting a beach bungalow and buying a sports car. More daring still, she falls in love with Luke Martin (Jon Voight), a bitter...
...Even Dern, stuck with the same crazy-soldier role he played in Black Sunday, manages to keep his anguish from seeming canned: as he realizes that both his wife and the war have betrayed him, the character's manic energy evaporates. Dern perfectly captures the unnerving calm of a man who has lost the will to live...
...were chopping [the Viet Cong's] heads off," Dern announces, almost matter-of-factly, "and that's what they were into." In another, Luke speaks before an assembly of high school boys, counseling them to avoid the draft. "There was a lot of shit over there I find f- ing hard to live with," Luke tells the kids, as his voice starts to crack. "But I don't feel sorry for myself. I'm just saying that there's a choice to be made." At such moments Coming Home, like Shampoo before it, reminds...
...with "Holes in the Sky," a 32-bar rendition of a poem by Louis NacNiece. The next four songs formed a cycle beginning with the straightforward harmonic piece, "Velvet Sportcoat," followed by "Ode to the Apocalypse" and its fast-paced thematic cousin, "Ark Tangents," whose music dances upon Daniel Dern's surrela lyrics...