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Soldier's Girl, a tragic love story like no other
(by endochic) on 25/01/2009, 8:29pm		 100%  vs  0%  

I watched this movie the other night on TV and although it was 1:30 in the morning, I could not turn the TV off because the movie is quite tragic but beautiful at the same time.
The movie was based on a true story of Private First Class Barry Winchell who registered in the army at Airborne Divisions in 1997. They started to fall in love with a transgender club performer Calpernia Addams after a visit encouraged by this room mate Fisher to a 'deviant'club in Kentucky. Addams and Winchell started dating and Fisher ( who was a psychotic) started spreading rumours of Winchell's sexual orientation through a fellow soldier, Glover.

The tragedy begins....

Glover and Winchell had a fistfight a couple of days before the 4th of July in which Winchell prevailed. Fisher manipulated and convinced Glover to kill Winchell with a baseball bat while he slept in the hallway outside his room. Glover brutally beat Winchell in the head repeatedly, eventually killing him.

Meanwhile Addams discovers Winchell's death on the news after returning from a transgender beauty pageant.

It touched me...and worried me. I've always thought that soldiers returning home with a mental illness are due to the images and their experiences at war. I'd never thought that soldiers can already be mentally ill before dispatchment. This movie shines a light on the enrolment of soldiers, some come from troubled backgrounds and sees the army as a haven and a career. Many enrol for patriotism, others enrol because they have no other options.
And it worries me greatly that men or women enrolling in the army from a disturbed background are more likely to commit brutality out on the field.
These are the men and women who we see on the news about inhuman treatment of suspects or civilians. such as the brutal torturing of terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay.

Barry Winchell was brutally murdered because of his sexuality. Can you imagine what goings on at these detention centres for suspects. We are all human, we are all different, yet we are capable of being so INHUMANE.

This is a great movie.



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