... a sexual identification can be observed in films from all eras it is most profound when contrasted to the late 1950's and early 1970's American society. The 1950's are characterized as a banal conformist society scarred with the conclusion of WWII, suburbia lifestyle, nuclear energy, the cold war, limited Human Rights, and McCarthyism. This value system denied sexual exploration and rigidly defined sexual ... ...

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... is thinking between the good and evil in Vietnam and in himself. Bates writes on saying that "even critics who liked the rest of the film found the voice over banal dangerously romantic its as if Taylor were saying now I will become Oliver Stone and make films like Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, and Heaven and Earth."" In defence ... ...

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