Beaux is a handsome and responsible man who supports his family by running a bait shop and looks after Pemon, who is mentally handicapped. Beaux Dupuis (Jonathan Schaech) lives on a houseboat with his brother Pemon (Fred Koehler) in the swamps of Cajun country. Here is a fact to ponder: a large portion of Chinese POWs refused to go back to China and were sent to Taiwan.Two brothers are victimized by a weak and jealous man in this drama shot on location in Louisiana. For the westerners who generally do not know what happened in Korean War, and what kind of soldiers were sent over to fight. This is the same old practices of the Chinese war movies, showing how brave and effective killing machine the Chinese army is. But the fighting scene predominately shows US soldiers got blown up into the sky, with very few scenes showing Chinese soldiers getting killed. The movie showed the huge loss to the Chinese army only in numbers, when casualties were reported by the soldiers. I don't know if this is because they can't get good US actors, or because they don't want US soldiers look more humane than the Chinese. However the US officers and soldiers characters are just like movie props, with little personalities or emotions. The movie did not demonise the US troops. This just show the mindset of the Chinese elites nowadays. They presented the battles as glorious, heroic and patriotic acts. ![]() The problem is, unlike in Save Private Ryan, the Chinese directors and actors did not show the war as human tragedies, where countless young lives were lost. This is just an expensive imitation of the great war movies like Save Private Ryan.
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