They're coming through the wire.

After a trip to the gym with Courtney and Bobbie, we arrive home to wind down for the evening and disappear into the couch for another night's movie. Briefly catching up on the day's events we spend a series of seconds blabbing while the DVD finds it's title screen.

As the disk player launches the show, we blast into the past because we've chosen to view:

Courtney wasn't too enthralled with this one at first. She would sputter a few paragraphs about something that made up her day from time to time. As the movie progressed, the paragraphs became shorter and shorter till soon, she was engrossed with the flashing scenes on the television. Once the village sequence arrived, she was watching with intently at what was unfolding. Empathetically her eyes welled with extra moisture as Barnes delivered his questions to the village elder while holding his daughter at gun point. Bobbie vocalized how she was disgusted by the sights-But she says that every time we see this part of the film. Max had even pulled himself from the draw of his Playstation 3 to complete our nuclear family because of the impact of this movie. Here we all were, occupying a living space and staring into an electric screen. It was wonderful.

Well, what can I say about Oliver Stone's vision of the Vietnam war. For those that have seen it, it's one of the most compelling tales of this category. The narration of Chris is soulful and poetic in comparison to the horrors of war. Yet through the grief and the fear, a bond that is made between brothers in arms is brilliantly conveyed and poignantly felt by the viewer. We watch the main character grow from a naive new grunt to a battle hardened warrior who tries to make sense of the jagged world around him. In the end, he begins to find the truth in himself, of what the war has taken from him, and what he'll never regain from the battles that have scarred him.

I'm sure you've probably seen this film and others like it. If you want to make a day out of this, you can follow up this DVD with; Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket.

This movie will always be compelling if it's being watched the first time or if it's being watched the 100th time. For this, I'm ranking this narration as an 8 out of 10 M-16's.