Good movie but managed to make completely the opposite point
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Sidewindr — 10 years ago(November 05, 2015 10:04 PM)
Are you presently ready to sacrifice your daughter or neice for such a position in SF? I'm not, I don't think you or anyone else is either.
It is not up to you, once a person is of legal age then it is THEIR decision and not yours or anyone else's .. this is the point of the movie, everyone should be able to make their own choices.c -
Miss_Kitty89 — 13 years ago(April 10, 2012 01:44 AM)
Sorry but women have long been raped in front of soldiers and men during war and times of violence. Women have been killed and tortured and killed destroyed as simple bystanders or "collateral damage." There is no difference in the situation except that a female soldier knows exactly what she is getting into and fully accepts the dangers of her job rather than being a helpless statistic of war time gendered violence.
Theres no one on IMDB I care enough for to use spell check- suck it grammar Nazis -
Ithilfaen — 13 years ago(February 24, 2013 09:48 PM)
It's BS. They conveniently didn't show any male soldier being tortured in front of his buddies. I doubt they would find that any more palatable. And men can be raped too. They are.
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Promontorium — 11 years ago(January 22, 2015 05:07 AM)
You arbitrarily decided you knew what the movie wanted to portray, then criticized it for portraying something different. You are quite wrong.
The movie didn't make any final conclusion one way or the other. It allowed the characters to make their arguments. It portrayed a scenario where a woman, not every woman, but A woman was capable of doing the job, and it presented the positive and negative components of this event.
The main antagonist in the film doesn't finish by saying "Oh you were right, I was wrong, women can do anything." However he does grow great respect for her as an individual, but says that it is everyone else who has the problem. This is profound, because it's simultaneously acknowledging this might work, but that there are still standing social-psychological barriers. So at least to him, he sees it will cause trouble, but it might be worth it, and people have to change. The supposed supporter turned out to merely be playing politics, and the protagonist, "GI Jane" herself simply wanted the challenge. So ultimately the film doesn't give a definitive answer, it astutely notes the controversy, it counters the claims of absolute inability, but concedes there are weaknesses in men and women that may be a problem, but also may be solved.