It's all about being gay
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csue-palmer — 12 years ago(September 19, 2013 01:27 PM)
GAY? No. Why does someone wanting to "fly away from it all" (escape from reality) have to be gay? This is about someone who can't handle his homelife, then finds VietNam to be an even worse situation. His obsession with flying is just that: Escape
And his best buddy(also not gay) hates seeing his friend like this. They go way back and he can't bear to see his friend in this condition.
If you use these metaphors as being "gay", I suppose one could take any subject or any film/book, etc (on the human condition) and apply it to homosexuality.
A GREAT film about the frailty of life and how some people just "fold" and some don't. Not a judgment on those who do buckle. Just that we are all different. Modine's character is so very sensitive; his mind finds "flight" as his defense mechanism.