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Coming Home (1978)
In Hal Ashby's definitive, Oscar-winning anti-war
Vietnam film:
- the tender love affair between housewife Sally
Hyde (Jane Fonda) and embittered and partially paralyzed, wheelchair-bound
war veteran Luke Martin (Jon Voight) while she was working as a
volunteer at a veteran's hospital
- her subsequent violent breakup with returning husband-vet
Bob (Bruce Dern) (Sally: "It happened. I needed somebody. I
was lonely..." Bob: "Bulls--t...if it's over with us, it's
over...What I'm saying ISSSS! I do not belong in this house. And
they're saying that I don't belong over there")
- Luke's "there's a choice to be made here" speech
to high school students about the futility of war: ("...And
now I'm here to tell ya that I have killed for my country, or whatever.
And I don't feel good about it. Because there's not enough reason,
man, to feel a person die in your hands or to see your best buddy
get blown away. I'm here to tell ya it's a lousy thing, man. I don't
see any reason for it. And there's a lot of s--t that I did over
there that I find f--king hard to live with. And I don't want to
see people like you, man, comin' back and having to face the rest
of your lives with that kind of s--t. It's as simple as that. I don't
feel sorry for myself. I'm a lot f--kin' smarter now than when I
went. And I'm just tellin' ya, there's a choice to be made here")
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Love Affair Between Sally and Luke
Breakup Between Sally and Husband Bob
Luke: "There's a Choice to Be Made Here"
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