Taking Chance
Who says that movie should
have conflict in it? Taking chance will show you how a simple and flat movie
could bring you into tears. This movie tells a story of a marine named Lt. Colonel Michael Strobl who escorted the body of marine
name PFC Chance Phelps that died in the Iraq war. This movie starred by Kevin
Beacon, the one who has played in many outstanding movies, such as a few good man, x-man, footloose, and
many more. This movie was premiered on HBO on February 21st, 2009 after it was
selected to be shown at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.
It tells a story of Colonel Strobl, a behind the
desk-type of marine that never participated in any wars. One day, he took an offer
to escort the dead body of PFC Chance Phelps to his hometown. He said yes to
that offer because PFC Phelps came from the same hometown as he did while in
fact he did it because he felt guilty to see many marines who died in wars
while he was living in comfortable life with his family. After he discussed
this offer with his wife, he then went to Dover Port Mortuary to get some
instructions before doing his duty. One of the most important instructions was
that he had to bring PFC Phelps’ personal stuffs with him no matter what. Off
he went to the airport to escort Phelps’ body. Along with the road, Americans
gave many salutes to the fallen marine, PFC Chance Phelps, in many ways. For
example, a flight attendant gave Colonel Strobl a crucifix, later on he
realized that it was not meant for him, it was given by her to honor Phelps.
These small yet touching scenes are the reasons why viewers get so emotionally
attached with this movie.
Through this movie, we are shown how Americans do
really salute their heroes no matter who they were. It is really touching to
see another side of Americans that we have never seen before. Most of the time
we are only shown how individualistic Americans are, how apathetic they are,
and how careless they are to their surrounding, but this movie does the
opposite of it. We can see soft-hearted Americans who united together as a
nation to grieve the fallen body of PFC Phelps, even they did not know him
personally, but they knew that this guy had made USA proud.
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