Southern Comfort (1981)
Country: US
Technical: col 106m
Director: Walter Hill
Cast: Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward, Peter Coyote
Synopsis:
An exercise among the bayous by the Louisiana National Guard turns nasty when one of the detachments rubs the local cajuns up the wrong way and becomes the prey in a ruthless game of cat and mouse.
Review:
Often touted as an allegory of Vietnam (this is credible and may well be true), the film unfortunately recalls Deliverance and many a Western, and more often than not to its disadvantage. The setting, with its swamps and everglades and foreign-tongued inhabitants, is a novel ingredient, but the undisciplined wastrels and psychos of which the platoon consists is all too familiar and one feels, like Boothe's Texan interloper, that one would rather be somewhere else than in their company. Consequently, one awaits the next cruel demise with an uncomfortably pleasant sense of anticipation. Cinematography and Ry Cooder's music spruce up the atmosphere; most of the performances have dated badly.
Country: US
Technical: col 106m
Director: Walter Hill
Cast: Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward, Peter Coyote
Synopsis:
An exercise among the bayous by the Louisiana National Guard turns nasty when one of the detachments rubs the local cajuns up the wrong way and becomes the prey in a ruthless game of cat and mouse.
Review:
Often touted as an allegory of Vietnam (this is credible and may well be true), the film unfortunately recalls Deliverance and many a Western, and more often than not to its disadvantage. The setting, with its swamps and everglades and foreign-tongued inhabitants, is a novel ingredient, but the undisciplined wastrels and psychos of which the platoon consists is all too familiar and one feels, like Boothe's Texan interloper, that one would rather be somewhere else than in their company. Consequently, one awaits the next cruel demise with an uncomfortably pleasant sense of anticipation. Cinematography and Ry Cooder's music spruce up the atmosphere; most of the performances have dated badly.
Country: US
Technical: col 106m
Director: Walter Hill
Cast: Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward, Peter Coyote
Synopsis:
An exercise among the bayous by the Louisiana National Guard turns nasty when one of the detachments rubs the local cajuns up the wrong way and becomes the prey in a ruthless game of cat and mouse.
Review:
Often touted as an allegory of Vietnam (this is credible and may well be true), the film unfortunately recalls Deliverance and many a Western, and more often than not to its disadvantage. The setting, with its swamps and everglades and foreign-tongued inhabitants, is a novel ingredient, but the undisciplined wastrels and psychos of which the platoon consists is all too familiar and one feels, like Boothe's Texan interloper, that one would rather be somewhere else than in their company. Consequently, one awaits the next cruel demise with an uncomfortably pleasant sense of anticipation. Cinematography and Ry Cooder's music spruce up the atmosphere; most of the performances have dated badly.