An Officer And A Gentleman

Bought As A Gift For The Mrs's But A Great Movie None The Less. If Your A Fan Of Debra Winger Look Here As She Doesn't Make Movies Anymore.

Look closely this is not a movie about the military but about life. More specifically about being lucky enough to find one self when you're young. A movie about status, social mobility, class, relationships, troubled young men and women, suicide, and love.This is also about the card game as Ernest Hemingway would have described it that is played out between men and women whereby men attempt to seduce women and women wish to be valued for more than as prostitutes. And how some times that game can end in true love, but some times it can unleash forces beyond our control that can even kill.The main protagonist is Mayo played by Richard Geer. A navy brat with a troubled history.Who's not a team player because he's been hustled for so long and hustling for so long that he doesn't know when to recognize in life when you can start trusting people. His best friend is played by David Keith as Sid Sorley a troubled kid who has all sorts of emotional baggage who begins swimming in the deep end of the pool called the game of love before he's even aware of it. As we will find out later this has tragic results.I'm not afraid to admit that I began to tear up as I saw where this movie was headed. Sid Sorley is a great kid. He's an all American kid who got carried away having what began as a sexual vacation. Young-men who are immature are known to do this. What I found especially tragic is that the women who wants to marry him and whom he later is willing to give up everything for both carry a common psychic scar. They both lost sibling in the Vietnam war. Sid a nice kid is unwilling to open up about this as well as other emotional problems hes having.This is very sad to me because medical as well as testimonial evidence is now coming to light that shows that the families and children of veterans of not just the Vietnam war but possibly all wars some times inherit emotional scars from their families service to our country. If you don't believe me check out a book titled, 30 months with my father, by the daughter of a Vietnam vet and visit her website. I must admit I just found out about this book a few days ago and look forward to reading it I may up date this review after reading this book.I teared up as I saw the inevitable closing in around Sid Sorley. Military bases must have there share of young men and women like him. Kids really who have an emotional roller coaster in their heads cascading out of control that threatens to destroy them. And they have no one to trust no one to talk to. They must feel so emotionally stranded, so hopeless, so alone. The darkness chasing after them wanting to grasp them in it's eternal embrace. And the hart breaking thing is that they are the best and the brightest we have as a society to offer.I felt greatly for Sid Sorley he just wanted to be loved for who he was he was an emotionally damaged kid. who commits suicide. Sadly, suicide in our society is completely misunderstood. People think that it is the act of a coward. An act of volition. It isn't suicide occurs according to the medical data in people who have 95% of the time a preexisting mental illness. Their are chemicals in the brain and spinal column that if they ever dip below a certain level anyone no matter how tough you think they are, how religious, disciplined, will begin to have suicidal thoughts. This is why I ached as I saw Sorley hurt so much for no good resason. Modern medicne now has medications which prevent this from happening. Theirs therapy. I wept as Sorley needlessly killed himself how easily it could have been avoided if he had just been under the care of a professional.But this movie is to some extent about the redeeming power of true love the love felt between Richard Geer's character and the beautiful girl next door female lead. I cheered as I'm sure you did when he swept her up and carried her away like some dime store romance novel hero. Mayo who has emotional issues do to the suicide of his mother, his raising and intimacy issues do to being raised 'on top of the raunciest whore house in the Philipine Island.' Overcomes his issues and shows maturity in sweeping his love away.But that's not even my favorite scene. Mine is when Geer wakes up after a night of love making and find his now girlfriend making breakfast in the kitchen. This demonstrates that love is not always an epic quest depicted in romance movies or novels. It is for more ordinary people, well, more ordinary waking up and realizing that some one cares for you because they made breakfast. I love the conversation that ensues in that scene that was when they had both stopped playing cards and were really falling in love. This is a wonderful movie. About very adult topics if it's suitable it could be shown at the H.S. senior level or college freshman level.

Must watch movie

Who can resist watching this movie over and over? Classic movie! Great love story.

Descent love story

The story wasn’t as well told as I suspected it would be…

On of my all time favorite movies....ever!!!

Richard Gere played a very role in the possibilities of someone coming from a sad background fighting up the ladder to better himself and also finding someone to love!

Great viewing

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