Southern Comfort1981
“It's the land of hospitality... unless you don't belong there.”
Directed by Walter Hill
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The premise
A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.
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When a ragtag Louisiana National Guard unit crosses the wrong locals during a routine swamp exercise, what begins as a weekend drill rapidly descends into a desperate, deadly game of cat and mouse. Armed only with blank rounds and hopelessly outmatched in an alien landscape, the soldiers find the bayou itself becoming their enemy. Director Walter Hill crafts a slow-burn thriller that uses the Cajun wilderness as a haunting mirror for America's misadventures in Vietnam. The tension between the men is every bit as dangerous as the threat lurking in the fog-shrouded trees.
Content: Violence, Animal Killing, Gore
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