The Boys in Company C
“To keep their sanity in an insane war, they had to be crazy.”
War
Disheartened by futile combat, appalled by the corruption of their South Vietnamese ally, and constantly endangered by the incompetence of their own company commander, the young men find a possible way out of the war. They are told that if they purposely lose a soccer game against a South Vietnamese team, they can spend the rest of their tour playing exhibition games behind the lines.
VIBE
This film feels like a grim, unvarnished look at the absurdity and moral compromise of war. It’s a cynical, often darkly funny, portrayal of soldiers navigating a corrupt system, finding dark humor in the bleakness of their situation.
grittycynicaldarkly comedicbleakfrustratedsteadygritty realismanti-warcharacter-drivenwarcorruptionsurvivalmorality
vietnam warvietnamarmyfootball (soccer)basic training
