Post by joekiddlouischama on Mar 31, 2017 7:56:43 GMT
... true in a sense, but the myth of the disdained Vietnam veteran fit into a popular reactionary narrative of the seventies and eighties. The odd part, as you indicate, is that the film targets some yokels and their sheriff as the villains, thus 'complicating' that reactionary narrative and making First Blood a politically ambiguous film—to the extent that it is political at all. I concur that the movie is not particularly patriotic.