few good men
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In the film, A Few Good Men, characters such as the lead role, Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee (played by Tom Cruise) are portrayed to be leaders in society. I believe the movie's main focus was actually on how different a person can be because of something one person says to them. I also believe that one of the movie's main ideas was how to work people with words. This is especially true when Colonel Nathan R. Jessup (Jack Nicholson) is interrogated by Cruise. The way that Nicholson answers Cruise's questions is with such sophistication and knowledge that even though you know that he had his speech written out for him, it was delivered with such eloquence that it allows the viewer to understand what Nicholson is really feeling at that particular moment.
It is hard to watch a movie and really understand everything completely the first time through, and you always know that you will catch different parts of it if you watch it again. Especially in A Few Good Men this is very visible. There are many parts in the movie that you will not understand the first time. One particular scene is when Cruise and Lieutenant JoAnne Galloway (Demi Moore) are discussing the case when Cruise is in a rage...