Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wielding tourists in the Yard and soggy French fries in the dining hall. As they progress throughout their years at Harvard, choosing concentrations, moving into Houses, running for elections, writing theses and donning the cap and gown, she will continue to beg and beg, mooching her way through life...
...Denied any of the war's action, these four soldiers enthusiastically seek their last chance to blow things up, now that the war is officially over. Russell goes out of his way to emphasize that his heroes are reserve soldiers; they read like a random cross sampling of American life. Chief (Ice Cube) is described as "on a paid four-month vacation" from his job as a baggage handler at the Detroit Airport. Conrad Vig (Spike Jonze), is a boyish, impetuous redneck, and Troy Barlow (an impish Mark Wahlberg), a new father, is his best friend and role model...
...their way to the buried treasure, the magisterial Gates tells his fellow mercenaries that the most important thing in life is necessity. By calculating what the most necessary thing is to each side in a conflict, one can predict an enemy's actions. While Saddam's troops are fighting rebels among their own people, he reasons, they are not going to bother about a small band of Americans pillaging. For the Iraqis, survival is the necessity; for Saddam his survival as a dictator and tyrant, and for the Iraqi people, simply their lives. For the American soldiers, necessity is riches...
...thus fitting that the gold is found in a bunker whose entrance is hidden in a well. Instead of water, which is the difference between life and death in the desert, we find money, appliances and rolex watches. We find that these items, too, are important for survival; as currency value is deflated, luxury items and automobiles are traded for food...
...However, the threat of a Court Martial hangs over their heads, and this element of self-interest in their pact with the refugees gives the movie added moral dimension, as we realize that this adventure is not as separate from real, post-war life as it may appear...