Johnny Got His Gun

[mia]

A powerful movie. Free on YouTube.

He was the future he was a perfect picture of the future and they were afraid to let anyone see what the future was like. Already they were looking ahead they were figuring the future and somewhere in the future they saw war. To fight that war they would need men and if men saw the future they wouldn't fight. So they were masking the future they were keeping the future a soft quiet deadly secret. They knew that if all the little people all the little guys saw the future they would begin to ask questions. They would ask questions and they would find answers and they would say to the guys who wanted them to fight they would say you lying thieving sons-of-bitches we won't fight we won't be dead we will live we are the world we are the future and we will not let you butcher us no matter what you say no matter what speeches you make no matter what slogans you write.

[Journeyman]

1. You plan the wars you masters of men plan the wars and point the way

and we will point the gun.

[3Hotdogs]

2. Book was much better

[LeftInTX]

3. About 10 years ago, this was on Netflix

I plop my 25 yo son down and said, "Watch this!"

His reaction was like, "What on earth am I watching?"

Hey, he enjoyed on A Clockwork Orange and The Human Centipede so whatever........

[nuxvomica]

4. We read the book in high school

It really stuck with me. Trumbo's writing is so evocative that every so often I get a craving for a hamburger sandwich like the guy was selling on the street. That's the part my brain holds onto because it was a pleasant memory among all the disturbing descriptions in the story, like my subconscious needed to use that to anchor the experience because reading that book was so important. It's one of a handful of books I read in my youth that has shaped my worldview. In this case, the ant-war part. To those who think maybe young minds should not be allowed to read disturbing books, I say there is no hope for civilization unless they do read them.