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There are ghosts everywhere. Sparkling incense marks the entrance to the ! "Jungle of Screaming Souls," where the trees and plants "moan a ghostly music," and where Kien watches his battalion wiped out in hand-to-hand combat. He returns years later as part of a Vietnamese team to collect the remains of his men and finds that their souls are still loose, like his memories, "wandering in every corner and bush in the jungle . . . refusing to depart for the Other World." In Kien's mind, asleep or awake, in battle or in peace, the dead talk, and he talks back...
...revolution, I must qualify. I do not equate non-conformity with Volkswagen vans, Maoism or World Music. Joining the priesthood or the Peace Corps, a farm or the Foreign Service are all valid rejections of the increased homogeneity of the Harvard community. The pocketbook might suffer, the parents might moan. Individualism does come at a price...
...film. Granted, the film makers could pointing to the absurdity of the killing that occurs, but it could be done in more subtle, or at least meaningful ways. The climactic next-to-last scene of mass killing made the woman next to me duck her head and moan "Come on" with disbelief. At this point two men, disgusted with the inanity of it all, grabbed their coats and stormed out of the theater. Fortunately for them they missed the ridiculous miraculous ending which made the audience throw up their hands and scoff with disbelief...
...pine away. If you get depressed, don't hang around. Unless you enjoy misery, of course, which is perfectly understandable. If you want to wallow in self-pity, spend every moment around them, moan to your friends and write sappy poetry. But if I were you, I'd get a life. Watch TV, go for a bike ride, whatever; my guess is no one is worth that much heartache...
Before any Crimson fan could moan, "Uh-oh, we're in for it now," Harvard scored the winning goal 21 seconds after the game had been tied...