People / Joe Watanabe / Keywords
based on novel
grenade
prologue
vomit
blood
corpse
severed leg
grass
existentialism
accidental suicide
lawyer
accidental death
main character dies
color in title
insanity
duality
hill
nature
visual metaphor
multiple perspectives
philosophy
stabbed to death
uniform
honor
general
lieutenant
captain
sergeant
u.s. soldier
world war two
multiple narrators
fighting
battle
hearing characters thoughts
inner voice
internal monologue
voice over inner thoughts
jungle
courage
u.s. marine
spirituality
spoken inner thoughts
absent without leave
corporal
grim reality
infantry
dead soldier
commander
tropical island
japanese army
bunker
casualty of war
awol
private
brigadier general
pacifism
refusal to obey orders
crocodile
lieutenant colonel
budding friendship
combat casualty
battalion
beach landing
charlie company
guadalcanal
landing craft
melanesia
reed
relieved of command
ridge
solomon islands
spontaneity
transcendence
troop ship
death
military
shot in the stomach
shot in the back
shot to death
soldier
explosion
machismo
severed arm
cynicism
voice over narration
stabbed in the chest
husband wife relationship
shot in the neck
pursuit
voice over letter
machine gun
stabbed in the back
underwater scene
shot in the chest
invasion
skepticism
rifle
survival
steel helmet
u.s. army
shot in the head
no opening credits
river
pistol
japanese