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Given the fact that it is about a 'mined resource' you could just as easily see it relating to the Middle East - especially since the US is actually engaged the
by dejb 17y ago
Given the fact that it is about a 'mined resource' you could just as easily see it relating to the Middle East - especially since the US is actually engaged there at the moment and the troops are modelled on US Marines.
From an Australian perspective it would seem to be about the 'aboriginals' (the word is actually used in the film).
I'm sure there are many other interpretations.
Edit : I just read a review that thought it strongly evoked the Vietnam War.
- gaius 17y agoI don't see the Vietnam connection (apart from "being in the jungle") - there was nothing in the Vietnam conflict that was about resource extraction.
- billswift 17y agoYou must be fairly young; there was a lot of Leftist crap being spouted in the seventies about Vietnam really being about American access to Vietnamese tin. One problem was that Vietnam didn't really have more tin than many other places.