Cutter operates on two things: Despair and Cynicism.
Robert Stone wrote Dog Soldiers in 1973. Karl Reisz adapted it for the screen in 1978. Again, it’s three f****d people.
Marge, hooked on pharmaceuticals. Her husband, John Converse, a war correspondent, and Hicks, who brings drugs into the States. John Converse sells out his friend to the DA and realises fear was extremely important to him. Morally speaking, it was the basis of his life. I am afraid, therefore I am. Hicks, pursued by villains and agents, dies in an old hippie cave. Written on the wall is:
THERE ARE NO METAPHORS
I watched these movies back to back and felt, as I had felt all my life… f**k it.
“One door I passed revealed a man
fully dressed in an antique zoot suit
and a white ten gallon hat
As I parsed by we regard
