A Few Good Men Analysis

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The movie I chose to watch was A Few Good Men directed by Rob Reiner and written by Aaron Sorkin. A few good men is about military law primarily. The case that the movie revolves around starts off with two marines stationed at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. In the first scene of the movie it show’s marine Lance Corporal Harold W. Dawson and PFC Louden Downey beating up one of their fellow marines on base. The movie begins with the scene of the crime. The marine being beaten was PFC William T. Santiago a marine who was never good at being a marine in general. Santiago would fail miserably on runs and workouts which would only make the rest of the marine squad look bad as each marine depends on one another. The night that Dawson and Downey beat up Santiago they shoved a rag into his mouth. Santiago started bleeding and within hours died. Corporal Dawson and PFC Downey were …show more content…

Kendrick showed Kaffee and the crew around where he was told that kendrick told the squad Santiago was not to be touched in a meeting at 1600 hours. According to Kernal Jessep Santiago was set to be transferred and there was paperwork to transfer him prior to the night he was killed even though there really wasn’t, when Kaffee asked for the paperwork Jessep made a big deal for Kaffee to ask him nicely. When Kaffee asked Dawson and Downey if Kendrick ordered them to preform a code red to which they both admitted it was true. After the meeting with the other men that kendrick had with the squad he went into the room of Dawson and Downey and told them to commit the code red. Dawson makes it clear to Kaffee that he does not want to plead guilty and take an easier punishment. He wants to fight in court because he feels like him and Downey did nothing

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