Coming Home

The film coming home was an interesting view on how different people dealt with the Vietnam war. I liked how the main story was between two people who were not actually in the middle of war but were directly effected by it. Jon Voight and Jane Fonda's characters had negative experiences that were brought on by the war, these experiences gave them a common bond and brought the two of them together.

It seems to me that from the beginning of the movie that Jane's character is not very happy in her relationship and that she does not support her husband's choice of career. It's almost as if when she started working at the hospital she was trying to fill some sort of a void that she feels her husband should fill. When Jon's character came in she found what she was looking for, someone who she felt understood her.

When we fist saw Jon's character in the movie it showed us that he was very bitter from his experience in the war. It seemed to me as if he felt that he was not getting the gratitude that he should after being injured in the war. It again seems like Jon was trying to fill a void, at first he would just drink to make himself feel better. Once he met Jane he too found exactly what he was looking for to fill his void.