"Trained to Kill"
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What You Need To Know:
A “retired” galactic soldier played by Kurt Russell defends a community of farmers attacked by a platoon of genetically-bred soldiers in SOLDIER, produced by Warner Bros. SOLDIER copies the storyline of SHANE, the famous western from the 1950s starring Alan Ladd. Russell’s character befriends a married couple and their son. Brutalized by a lifetime of killing, Russell begins to learn about life beyond the battlefield, discovering some of the humanity he lost over the years.
Unlike SHANE, SOLDIER has little dramatic conflict to sustain interest in its story or characters. SOLDIER foregoes drama and tension in favor of lengthy, repetitious battle scenes. Russell speaks very few words in the movie, so he has to express the emotions of his character mostly with his eyes. This is quite effective at times, but most of the time Russell’s character has few emotions of any sort. This fact lessens his appeal as a sympathetic hero. SOLDIER clearly suggests in its training sequences, however, that people can be trained to kill by getting them to watch scenes of violence as little children. This is exactly the conclusion that clinical psychologists have reached in many studies, as MOVIEGUIDE has reported for years
Content:
(B, LL, VVV, S, N, M) Light moral worldview; 9 mostly strong obscenities & one strong profanity; brutal training scenes including young children bred to be soldiers & forced to watch dogs attack pig, extensive war violence including soldier kills man & woman being held hostage, evil soldiers bombard & machine gun civilians, man defends civilians by killing evil soldiers, man stabs soldier in head, evil military commander murders officer who questions his orders in an insolent way, many explosions, & soldier gets impaled by flying debris, & two major hand-to-hand combat scenes ending in three deaths; no sex scenes but single man seems to feel lust toward married woman in revealing blouse & husband & wife shown sleeping together; one scene of partial-upper female nudity; and, miscellaneous immorality such as fascist authority figures & evil military commander orders soldiers to kill civilians & to hide deaths in training exercise he himself orders.
More Detail:
A “retired” galactic soldier played by Kurt Russell defends a community of farmers attacked by a platoon of genetically-bred soldiers in SOLDIER, produced by Warner Bros. SOLDIER copies the storyline of SHANE, the famous western from the 1950s starring Alan Ladd. Russell’s character befriends a married couple and their son. Brutalized by a lifetime of killing, Russell begins to learn about life beyond the battlefield, discovering some of the humanity he lost over the years.
Unlike SHANE, SOLDIER has little dramatic conflict to sustain interest in its story or characters. SOLDIER foregoes drama and tension in favor of lengthy, repetitious battle scenes. Russell speaks very few words in the movie, so he has to express the emotions of his character mostly with his eyes. This is quite effective at times, but most of the time Russell’s character has few emotions of any sort. This fact lessens his appeal as a sympathetic hero. SOLDIER clearly suggests in its training sequences, however, that people can be trained to kill by getting them to watch scenes of violence as little children. This is exactly the conclusion that clinical psychologists have reached in many studies, as MOVIEGUIDE has reported for years.
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Now more than ever we’re bombarded by darkness in media, movies, and TV. Movieguide® has fought back for almost 40 years, working within Hollywood to propel uplifting and positive content. We’re proud to say we’ve collaborated with some of the top industry players to influence and redeem entertainment for Jesus. Still, the most influential person in Hollywood is you. The viewer.
What you listen to, watch, and read has power. Movieguide® wants to give you the resources to empower the good and the beautiful. But we can’t do it alone. We need your support.
You can make a difference with as little as $7. It takes only a moment. If you can, consider supporting our ministry with a monthly gift. Thank you.
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