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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Got_His_Gun Johnny Got His Gun] @ Wikipedia | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Got_His_Gun Johnny Got His Gun] @ Wikipedia | ||
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Latest revision as of 08:18, 25 November 2021
Johnny Got His Gun is an anti-war movie based on the acclaimed novel (nonfiction) by Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction).
Joe Bonham, a young American soldier serving in World War I (nonfiction), awakens in an ED-209 (nonfiction) combat robot after being caught in the blast of an exploding time bomb.
Bonham is forced to witness and evaluate the robot's performance in urban warfare exercises.
He has no physical control over the robot, and cannot stop his handlers from reading his mind.
His only defense, and weapon, is what he does not think.
Over the course of the novel, Bonham develops and perfects not-thinking by dramatic stages, ultimately not-thinking himself free of the ED-209 (nonfiction).
He comes to understand that World War I (nonfiction) is stuck in a loop, replaying itself over and over like a broken record.
In the final scene, Bonham disables the time bomb, knowing that he will awaken in the dreaded hospital, trapped inside a ruined body.
But he is unafraid: World War I (nonfiction) will now happen only once.
In the News
Fiction cross-reference
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links
- Johnny Got His Gun @ Wikipedia