![]() ![]() It's entirely possible that the writer and director could truthfully deny that they had intended to make a pro-Reagan film. The use of sex and nudity marks what has been incorporated from the counter cultural revolution, but the politics have shifted to the right so quietly that no one noticed. ![]() ![]() The most significant feature of "An Officer and a Gentleman" is that contemporary reviewers saw nothing unusual about it. This is a great time capsule and probably the film you should watch if you want a taste of the Reagan revolution of the early 1980s. That and cheaters (Lynette) never prosper. With the final scene being somewhat iconic - I won't spoil it for you but I'm sure you'll recognize it being parodied somewhere before - it does seem to be that my review title is the lesson for young women here. The catch - they are only there for 13 weeks, and isolated on base without leave for the first four. or at least that seems to be the lesson to working class girls like Paula (Debra Winger) and Lynnette (Lisa Blount) who have the problem of only having a high school education and thus limited employment options in the remote rural place in which they live, but access to the droves of young men going through officer candidate school nearby. Reviewed by calvinnme 8 / 10 If you sleep with enough strangers you too can find a man with a good future to take you away from all of this.
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