A Soldier's Choice

It is a nice sketch of love and duty story . Not original, not moving but real decent, proposing familiar characters, not new dilemma and the fair solution. Sure, it is not satisfactory but it works as melancholic short drama about the superficial two days relation between a dark soldier and a full of life young man.

This was pretty dire. Effeminate men trying to act macho including the marine. It just wasn't convincing.

Nor was the plot. That a gay marine so far into the closet that he barely acknowledges that he's gay would find himself in a gay bar is highly unlikely. That he'd approach and spend time drinking with a gay guy who clearly wants him is even more so. I'm sceptical that he would have phoned the gay guy the next day too.

I'd thought that being gay was allowed in the USA military. That a soldier wouldn't even have sex because of some supposed sense of duty to the army didn't ring true. There are all sorts of rationalisations guys like that can and do make to get their rocks off.

Just something about the continuity. I couldn't understand why the film kept cutting away to the street. It was just strange.

This wasn't a success and I don't recommend it.