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The bridge scene

posted 14 years ago by Levtones
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Was I the only one that cried like a girl?

The build up to the inevitable murder of the girl is what did it for me. The score is also a huge factor.

[–] robtakendall 14 years ago

That scene gave me nightmares for a long time - and I still can't watch that movie again. That scene is horrifying.

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[–] ceethismove 13 years ago

I actually said OUT LOUD "O MY GOD"..and I was just sitting alone in the room watching this movie. Very tense!

[–] WesternEyes05 13 years ago

This film is one of the few to actually make me weep openly whenever I happen to see it. I cry when Michael J. Fox unties the girl and sees the carnage that his fellow soldiers have done to her as she begs and pleads to him in Korean. Then her killing just makes it all even more emotional. This is just a sad, sad, disturbing film. One of the few films to ever TRULY disturb and upset me.

[–] DrakeStraw 13 years ago

... as she begs and pleads to him in Korean.

Why would a Vietnamese girl be speaking Korean? Are you in the right war?

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Drake

FYI

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[–] WesternEyes05 12 years ago

Woops, I WAS in the wrong war there while writing that! Hahaha! Sorry about that! Flaky moment! :P

[–] SeanDx 12 years ago

***SPOILER ALERT***

For me the power of the scene was ruined by realising that the girl stood between Meserve and the rest of the squad on the track, all of them on the track when they opened up on her from both sides. The squad would have surely ran serious risk of hitting Meserve, and he fired a burst at the girl (from a hand-held M60 machine-gun) with the squad right behind her.
They just wouldn't have fired. Hate to nit-pick on a fine movie but surely they could have set that up differently.

[–] jgroub 11 years ago

Yup, just came here to post the exact same thing. They were all in each other's line of fire. They would have killed themselves off, saved us from having a movie.

I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.

[–] jtdeclercq 12 years ago

OP, you surely weren't the only one crying. The scene is horrendous, and haunted me for days. This movie is by far one of the most intense movies on the American war in Vietnam I have ever seen.

[–] buddyboy28 12 years ago

Ennio Morricone's music haunted me for ages.So powerful.

[–] rocko8 11 years ago

The only thing I was thinking about was that they fired the rifles at each others general direction since she was in the middle of a straight train track.