I wonder if a movie like Heroes will have added significance because it didn't feature 'heroic' war activists but instead the mechanic next door and the kind misfit you meet on a bus. The movie crosses my mind occasionally because of the impact on my youth but also more now because of the large number of veterans that will become a returning part of our society. As a kid in the seventies, veterans were always seen as men that were just walking around with the constant threat of exploding, one-dimensional beings of violence. Legendary heroes and villains from Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo are summoned to the Nexus. I thought it was much subtler than some of the other Viet Nam films of the era and portrayed more everyday people. Harrison Ford's performance gave a great glimpse into the personal demons of the war, and coupled with Henry Winkler's fellow veteran offered a range of the complexities of the impact of the war and the responses of the public to our soldiers coming back. When I saw this film I was quite young and it gave me a humanizing portrait of Viet Nam veterans for the first time.
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