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Tigerland spielt ausschließlich auf amerikanischem Boden; insofern unterscheidet er sich wesentlich von Vietnam-Filmen der Marke Platoon und Full Metal Jacket. Stattdessen handelt er von den Ängsten und den moralischen Dilemmas, die in Erwartung eines bevorstehenden Umgangs mit dem Tod und dem Töten aufkommen. Diese aufwühlenden Emotionen spiegeln sich in der Figur des Gefreiten Bozz (Farrell) wieder, dessen Unfähigkeit, sich beim Training in Fort Polk, Louisiana, unterzuordnen, ein eigenartiges Führungstalent verrät. Bozz ist ein aufsässiger Einzelgänger -- von seinen Vorgesetzten gerade so geduldet und von seinen Kameraden entweder herausgefordert oder verehrt -- der schließlich zum außerordentlich viel versprechenden Soldaten geschliffen wird. Eine intensive Abschluss-Trainingswoche mit scharfer Munition im Ausbildungslager "Tigerland" bereitet den Zug auf den Kampf vor und definiert Bozz' Position.
Obwohl der Film den emotionalen Eindruck von Platoon vermissen lässt, beschäftigt er sich intensiv mit den inneren Konflikten, die ausgefochten werden müssen, bevor der äußere Konflikt ertragen werden kann. --Jeff Shannon
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At various points in the film, the commanders in charge of training announce to the platoon that has just made another snafu that they are all dead. 'I'm still alive,' the upstart Bozz (played by Colin Farrell in one of his earliest roles) will almost always announce. At one time, a sergeant tells Bozz that men can't just quit the Army. 'I'm not quitting, I'm just not playing any more,' Bozz calmly announces.
The plot revolves around a platoon at training during the early 1970s, when the horrors of the Vietnam war had been played out on television for the greater part of a decade, and no one really wanted to go as a lowly grunt private. The ultimate in training was Tigerland, a Louisiana swamp area converted into Vietnam-like terrain, for realistic training. Recruit Bozz is almost like a zen master, taking nothing in the training very seriously other than the potential deadening effects it might have on his (and the others' souls). Bozz is a troublemaker to the lock-step training mentality; like many troublemakers, he is in fact a diamond-in-the-rough for leadership, as men naturally follow his lead, and he eventually gets rewarded (or so one might think) with responsibility. However, his primary, self-chosen responsibility seems to be to save people from the Army if they don't warrant being there -- to this end, he helps arrange in ambiguous fashion various types of hardship and disability discharges for others in the platoon, but fails to escape the fate of going to Vietnam himself.
Colin Farrell is the only big 'name' in the film, and when it was filmed, he wasn't yet as well known as he is in the post Recruit/SWAT days. Director Joel Schumacher, known for big-budget blockbusters such as Batman & Robin, filmed this in grainy, shorter film, with no steady cams and harsh cinematography, reflecting the harshness of the training and the unsteady nature of the reality of war. For a Vietnam war film, this film is unique in that it never actually goes to Vietnam; everything is a home-grown re-creation -- perhaps this is another statement on the reality of war?
The roles of Paxton (Matthew Davis) and others recruits in the platoon are played with honesty and integrity; the officers and trainers are bit less realistic at times it seems, but then such officials must needs put on a persona when in such roles, so perhaps this is reflected in the actors' performances as actors in a very different engagement.
The DVD has a few extras, including Colin Farrell's screen test. A fascinating film, enigmatic in its ending and the overall meaning, save to say that perhaps all of war, and most of life generally, is absurd.
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