i think this movie be a 10 plus . the flashback format be interesting and watch the character life and attitude progress through the present day dixie reminiscence . this be why it be puzzle to me that another person comment contain the following criticism in regard to bette character dixie represent she be perhaps nave and oblivious to what war be about and maybe even think it just one big party and nobody really die or suffers . by the end when she go to vietnam she be a vulgar and disgusting and embittered slob who harbor some anger that the gi no longer swoon over her a they do a quarter of a century or so earlier . the gi be of a different generation and she can not relate to them or why they have the attitude they do . she be perhaps also angry with herself for not be able to be enthuse about perform for the fight men of this war the way she be year ago . how do she end up like this . huh . dixie be an angry and embitter woman because eddie spark sell out on her uncle . her volatile reaction to his betrayal begin the systematic annihilation of her career . she do not want to go on tour with him and only do so because he talk her into it and for the boy . if anything and it be eddie spark who be oblivious to the change of the time during the vietnam war and be unable to make the leap from the uso tour of the previous war to this strange and confusing part of our history and it be dixie who take control of the out of hand situation in her inimitable style by get the rowdy soldier back in line and then not only sing them the quintessential song of the era and but cap her low key performance with the peace sign . my god and she be the one who be truly in tune with the confusion these soldier be experience . so and i have to ask . do we see the same movie .