johnny got his gun

Director: dalton trumbo

Actor: timothy bottoms,kathy fields,marsha hunt,jason robards

Data Published: Wed Aug 04 1971

Genres: Drama,War

Key Words: nonlinear timeline,black and white and color,voice over inner thoughts,adaptation directed by original author,independent film

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067277/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Got_His_Gun_(film)

Description: Johnny Got His Gun is a movie starring Timothy Bottoms, Kathy Fields, and Marsha Hunt. In this tragic, dark, anti-war satire, a patriotic young American in WW1 is rendered blind, deaf, limbless, and mute by a horrific artillery...

Plot: Joe Bonham (Bottoms), a young American soldier hit by an artillery shell during World War I, lies in a hospital bed. He is a quadruple amputee who has also lost his eyes, ears, mouth and nose. He remains conscious and able to reason, but his wounds render him a prisoner in his own body. As he drifts between reality and fantasy, he remembers his old life with his family and girlfriend (Kathy Fields). He also forms a bond, of sorts, with a young nurse (Diane Varsi) who senses his plight. Eventually, Joe tries to communicate to his doctors, via Morse code by nodding his head, saying "help." He wishes for the US Army to put him in a glass coffin in a freak show as a demonstration of the horrors of war. When told that his wish may be impossible to grant, he responds begging to be euthanized, repeatedly saying "kill me." He ultimately realizes that the Army can grant neither wish, and will leave him in a state of living death. His sympathetic nurse attempts to euthanize him by clamping his breathing tube, but her supervisor stops her before Joe can succumb. Joe realizes that he will never be released from his state of entrapment and he is left alone, weakly chanting, "S.O.S. Help me."