I wanted a combination of american soldier footage in vietnam of the gruesome bombings and gun fire, but also to conflict and juxtapose found footage of them smiling to humanise them and show that they are just normal men out there fighting. I chose to use footage of the ' american dream ' style footage, with a couple dancing, memories on the beach and a reoccurring image of a girl to show nostalgic memories that would be playing in the soldiers mind, fragments of there life back home collages and ' overtook ' by horrific violence and war