Thursday, March 21, 2024

SEVEN = 7 : Seven Deadly Sins

 WAR IN VIETNAM > The most controversial and the bloodiest war ever! 

Based from all the war movies I watched on our TV, the Vietnam war story is the bloodiest, gory and unforgettable. Que horror!

I had seen PLATOON, 

THE KILLING FIELDS

RESCUE DAWN

WE WERE SOLDIERS

HAMBURGER HILL

 GOOD MORNING VIETNAM

 APOCALYPSE NOW

BRIDGE ON RIVER KWAI

TO END ALL WARS

 FULL METAL JACKET, and recently 1968: TUNNEL RATS. 

In those two movies above there are survivors but in TUNNEL RATS nobody survives. This movie is brutally, wickedly produced. OMG! What kind of tunnel is that?

It all started with troops of American soldiers arrival in Vietnam to help with insurgency to help Vietnamese defeat Vietcongs (North Vietnamese - Communists). However, when the troops of soldiers camped inside the deepest of the forest unknowingly that underground is a mysterious tunnel where the Vietcongs live and hide. The soldiers found a hole and curiosity aside, one soldier volunteered to get in and find out for himself what's in there. He crawled in to the dark tunnel with a flashlight and a gun in his hand but the Vietcong had shot him. He died. The troops got mad and panic, two soldiers volunteered to get in and crawled to the dark tunnel carefully and almost got blown by grenade but was able to see the line that connects to the pin of the grenade. Good thinking for his good vision. They (2 soldiers) crawled to the end of the tunnel while there's another level down below that tunnel, the Vietcongs having a meeting. At the end of that tunnel another hole, up the ground, an opening and the soldier had his head up and out of the hole and too late to even say a word, a sharp bamboo spear already got her neck bluntly struck to his neck and the dead soldier got stuck in that opening. Then the female Vietcong cold blooded killer showed no remorse, dropped the grenade down the hole and the second soldier left behind in the tunnel was buried with the soil. More killings followed when the Vietcongs raid the American soldiers camp and deaths followed until a depressed, injured, hopeless American soldier ordered for air strike. Air strike arrived with a vengeance! Everybody got blown away. THE END.

Why Vietcongs too harsh and too barbaric? Vietcongs thought the Americans are invaders and they had witnessed some of them raping the Vietnamese women and they hanged one of their fellow Viets from a tree. That's what it is in the story. 

Conflict with the language. Who are Vietnamese & Vietcongs? They looked a-likes. There's no difference unless if the Vietcongs wear some kind of uniform. The problem with them is: turned out the majority of the Vietnamese liked Communism. They are in favor of the Communist Party movement. That it was a mistake for allied forces to be in there actually. Lives lost! So many Americans died and injured in that war. They should have known. WAR is something the country's leaders should think not twice but many times over as in 7x7x7x7x7x7x7

THE WAR IN VIETNAM was a very controversial war and intriguing that it opened so much political debate and had been in Psychology Textbook for many generations to study: Chapter 18: Social Influence (Just Following Orders in Vietnam) page 576-577 INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY by Atkinson, Atkinson & Hilgard.


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