Men of Honor.....

Heroes are hard to find...

This is the one of those movies that I will always call “A Great Movie” I have enjoyed movies for many years, but the carefully crafted story, brilliant actor, De-niro was superlatively as always and Cuba Gooding Jr. demonstrated the true character that made him prevail in the World of Oscars. Movies that are based on the Military Surrounding are many,   but this one I will recommend to all my friends to watch from the beginning to the end, and this is one movie that, I believe many of my friends may easily watch as many times as I do….

Here I agree with Steve Simels' review of the Movie as he takes it as follows; LINK

Heroes are hard to find, so it feels churlish to carp about a film that tells the true story of sailor Carl Brashear (Cuba Gooding Jr.), who overcame systemic racism to become the U.S. Navy's first African-American deep-sea diver. On the other hand, it's a little odd that nobody involved — certainly not screenwriter Scott Marshall Smith or director George Tillman Jr. — seems to have noticed that it's also the story of a guy who literally cut off a limb to achieve a career goal. No disrespect to the real-life Brashear intended, but reasonable viewers might see this act as more masochistic and creepy than uplifting. In fact, the film raises all sorts of questions it seems disinclined to answer. Like, why do doctors let Brashear amputate an only slightly injured leg? Nary a clue is offered. 

What keeps Brashear's sadistic, racist training officer (Robert De Niro) and his gorgeous younger wife (Charlize Theron) together? Ditto. And, most crucially, what does the title mean? If most of the characters are creeps and there's nothing inherently honorable about self-mutilation, who are these honorable men? To be fair, the actors are by and large terrific, including a shockingly ancient-looking Hal Holbrook in the role of another sadistic, racist officer. The underwater sequences are both spectacular and scary; for what it's worth, this is the first film in recent memory whose hero gets run over by a submarine. But at a certain point, it's hard not to compare Gooding's character to Lemuel Pitkin, the Candide-ish protagonist of Nathaniel West's A Cool Million, whose good cheer increases exponentially as his arms and legs are hacked off........

With this movie, I suggest few more…. These are “Pursuit for Happiness”and “Two Can Play That Game”   As for the the “Pursuit for Happiness”... It reveals that; by far the majority of homeless are men. However, services seem to be skewed towards homeless women. So, to see a film about homelessness, and that it was a man, and he's a father and determined to do what is right for his son while getting very little support from his employer, the community, and a wife who never had a positive thing to say about him, even in front of their child, was a memory that will be imbedded in my mind and will be forever cherished. If a man treated his wife the way she treated him, he'd be labeled an abuser. But enough about her.