Rambo By Ted Kotcheff: Song Analysis

All around the world, people have been betrayed and it has been going on for a long time. I have chosen three songs and one movie to write about in this report. The first song is 21 Guns by Green Day, the second song is Fortunate Son by a band called Creedence Clearwater Revival and the third song is Hero Of War by a band called Rise Against. All these songs show betrayal toward soldiers and how they are treated like nothing. This is also shown in the movie Rambo by Ted Kotcheff and how he respects while fighting, then was treated with relentless discrimination when he returned home from the war.

At the beginning of the song 21 Guns, the man has come back from war and has been shown betrayal and was not in the right head space. I personally think war can be really bad for the soldiers, both mentally and physically when they get back. In the start of the music video there is a man holding a bullet. When Green Day made this song they wanted us to think that when he was holding that bullet he was reminding himself of all the bad things that happened, all the betrayal he had

All these soldiers wanted to fight for their country and thought that their country would be proud and see them as heroes. Later on it the song the lyrics start to change, for example “they took off these clothes they pissed in his hand I told them to stop but then I joined in”. The soldiers have lost their minds and were mislead by the government 's’ propaganda to lure them into fighting the war. Personally think that this is really bad because propaganda like this often targets the lower and middle class who need the money. Like the song Fortunate Son I believe if you start a war you should fight in it not the people in a lower or middle