The film is about the scar Vietnam has left on America's soul and in the climax a damaged, sensitive, sweetly humanist Marine played by Stacy Keach gets confronted in a bar by a bunch of hippy/bikers. Keach doesn't want any trouble and sensibly tries to leave. The bikers say they will, but not before Keach says "All Marines suck". Without protest, Keach pragmatically says it. This causes the lead biker to shriek in outrage and frustration and it is clear that this outlaw, though he seeks to humiliate Keach, desperately needs Keach to uphold the American Male Military myths that Vietnam has wounded forever. But Keach refuses to fight back. This causes the hippy/biker to up the degradation, but Keach continues to relent causing it all to snowball. It of course eventually erupts into violence and chaos. I have trouble tying meandering thoughts into coherent statements, but I think you see what I'm getting at. There is an analogous battle going on for America's Sexual Soul in porn today. The one upsmanship between the sexes is not driven simply by arbitrary tastes and market forces. Something is clearly being worked out here. The more the women in porn are degraded and humiliated, the more they submit, the angrier and thirstier for more we become. It is awful and wonderful. I'm not saying these women are consciously trying to teach us a lesson, but once every shred of artifice has been stripped away (and it has), once the woman is nothing but herself, we are left with nothing but the pregnant meaning in an UPSIDEDOWN female head allowing itself to be assaulted in the most inhumane way imaginable with her body protesting in a variety of alarming ways and all on video forever...I lost my train of thought, but I imagine you get whatever gist is there. What I'm saying is that porn has never been so wonderful, sickening, stupid, fascinating, and vital. I hate myself for it, but I cannot look away.

Nothing short of brilliant.Thanks Simp.