It's about a 19th-century Italian love triangle between a handsome young soldier, his passionate, married mistress back home, and an obsessed, demanding invalid at his remote regimental posting who tries to turn his distaste for her into love.

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The Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul films with quiet care the slowly awakening love of a cool, composed soldier, Keng (Banlop Lomnoi), and an uneducated country boy, Tong (Sakda Kaewbuadee).

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She wants to bring him to a state where he can acknowledge that one of her two sons is his and not Ilan's and he can come to love the boy, now a serving soldier.

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There are those with an ideological bent against anything military that love the stereotype of the mindless soldier who can only take orders and never think for themselves (a favorite staple in most hollywood flicks), but our military today is better trained and more carefully selected than ever before in history.

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To him, his love of America and his devotion to our nation was far better exemplified by his service nearly seventy years ago as a soldier in World War II.

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