'Code Red', A Few Good Men
example · film: A Few Good Men ·
retold in 3 talks
The film A Few Good Men depicts the military's 'Code Red', the network of unwritten obscene rules about how to deal with those who are 'not one of us', as the hidden core of military community that is never publicly admitted.
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As told 3
“every military community has a whole network of obscene implicit rules: how do you deal with those who are not one of us, how do you beat them... They have to remain—exact—”
“such a code must remain under cover of night unacknowledged unutterable not integrated into public symbolic universe”
“'Code Red'—an unwritten military rule that you can beat a soldier who doesn't behave in a solidary way, a rule which everyone follows but nobody admits publicly.”
What it carries
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Its cast and sources
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David Koresh1Gustáv Husák1Raymond Carver1Robert Epstein1Garry Wills1Sam Neill1Rob Reiner1Michelangelo1
alongside works
Every retelling 3
The film A Few Good Men depicts the military's 'Code Red', the network of unwritten obscene rules about how to deal with those who are 'not one of us', as the hidden core of military community that is never publicly admitted., illustrating social obscenity,obscene underside of an institution
In Rob Reiner's film, the 'Code Red' is an unwritten military rule authorizing clandestine beating of fellow soldiers who violate group ethics, publicly denied yet operative as the real bond of the marines' community, illustrating the split between written law and obscene superego underside., illustrating superego,public secret,community cohesion through transgression
The film's 'Code Red', the informal rule that soldiers may beat those who violate group solidarity, acknowledged by everyone but no one admits publicly, illustrates the unwritten obscene supplement of official military law., illustrating regulated violation,obscene underside of power