Delmar's widow - The first person to wrong Rambo?
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strntz — 9 years ago(September 28, 2016 09:37 AM)
She's not being cold on purpose, she's just sad and bitter at the manner in which her son died.
^^This.
And she wasn't just bitter, she was effing bitter. Delmar served his country proudly and bravely and got cancer for his efforts. Even if the government didn't know the defoliants sprayed during the war would cause cancer later on, did they help mitigate the damage when the soldiers returned?
She saw her big strapping son waste away to death.
Sure she was bitter, and Rambo was just another cog in the war machine to her. Fair? No, but her bitterness is understandable if not condonable.
Is very bad to steal Jobu's rum. Is very bad. -
TheLordofTheHarvest — 9 years ago(December 20, 2016 09:46 PM)
I'm all for understanding her bitterness but she had no reason to be a bitty to Rambo though at all. It's not his fault Delmar got the cancer; nor is it his fault they were even in the war together to begin with. She was just being a rude C word and was rather disrespectful. Maybe it was her personality in general but she could have handled that so much better.
I've seen plenty of widows and mothers who lost sons and husbands before due to both war and fate but I've never seen one that bad.
I'm sure Delmar would have been angered she treated John that bad; it seemed they were the best of buddies. She could have at least gave him lunch or something. He wouldn't have been so moody or hungry when he got to Hope and wouldn't have had the incidents happen.
But then again it makes the movie work too; the whole world's out to get him pretty much. -
strntz — 9 years ago(December 31, 2016 04:04 AM)
I'm all for understanding her bitterness but she had no reason to be a bitty to Rambo though at all.
I didn't justify the level of her bitterness, only explained it:
Sure she was bitter, and Rambo was just another cog in the war machine to her. Fair? No, but her bitterness is understandable if not condonable.
Is very bad to steal Jobu's rum. Is very bad.