This scene from 'Born on the Fourth of July' illustrates how combat veterans can experience profound psychological trauma and moral injury, where the psychological burden of combat experiences creates lasting emotional scars that manifest in interpersonal conflicts and struggles with identity, as demonstrated through the violent confrontation between Ron Kovic and Charlie Colby in the Mexican desert.
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Ron and Charlie Fight on the Side of the Road | Born on the Fourth of JulyAdded:
[screaming] >> I'LL KILL YOU.
I'LL KILL YOU, [ __ ] YOU CAN'T TALK TO ME LIKE THAT.
HEY, CHARLIE.
GET OUT. GET OUT. THE [ __ ] THINKS IT'S FUNNY I CAN'T MOVE MY DICK.
[ __ ] HER.
I'LL KILL YOU, [ __ ] KILL.
IT'S ALL YOU MEXICAN MOTHER YOU DON'T LIKE IT, GET OUT. YOU SYPHILITIC MOTHER.
GET OUT. DON'T TOUCH ME. DON'T YOU DON'T TOUCH ME. GET THE HELL OUT.
GET OUT.
I wouldn't be HERE IF IT WEREN'T FOR THAT IT'S ALL YOU IT'S ALL YOU.
YOU SURE THEY TOLD THEM THE RIGHT PLACE, MAN?
>> VILLA ROSA, I TOLD THEM VILLA ROSA.
>> VILLA ROSA? VILLA ROSA. YEAH, YEAH, Villa Rosa, senor. Villa Rosa. Beautiful place, you see. Wait till we get to Villa Rosa, man. Wait till we get there.
Senoritas with big tits, small tits, everything.
You let that Mexican scumbag Thanks, man. You guys saw a sign Villa Rosa 10 minutes ago.
Where you going, TACO HEAD?
I SAW A SIGN THAT SAID VILLA ROSA.
Let him meet her.
It's big tits with THE LET HIM MEET HER.
HEY, [ __ ] WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO NOW?
YEAH, SURE.
HOW ARE WE GOING TO GET out of here?
[ __ ] them all.
The horse.
[ __ ] the cab drivers.
Mexico.
[ __ ] Nixon, [ __ ] Vietnam, [ __ ] them all.
Yeah, Charlie, but how are we going to get out of here?
They made me kill babies, man. Little [ __ ] babies.
You ever have to kill a baby? Yeah.
Okay, come on.
We'll get a ride. We got to get back to THE VILLA. [ __ ] YOU.
>> GOT TO GET back to the villa.
What do you mean okay?
What do you mean okay? YOU EVER HAVE TO KILL A BABY? YOU EVER HAVE TO KILL A LITTLE [ __ ] BABY? WHAT THE [ __ ] DO YOU KNOW WHAT I DID?
YEAH.
I didn't think so. I didn't think so.
You're full of [ __ ] No, you are.
The Leave me the [ __ ] alone. You're nuts, you know that. You're nuts. The [ __ ] sun is going down. What do you know what the [ __ ] comes out here at night? We got to get out of here.
me, Colby. You never killed a baby. You never had to kill a baby because you never put your soul into that war. You never put your soul on the line, man.
>> know? How the [ __ ] do you know? Maybe I killed babies. Maybe I killed more babies than you did, you [ __ ] Maybe I killed a whole bunch of babies, BUT I DON'T TALK ABOUT IT. I DON'T HAVE TO TALK ABOUT IT.
>> WHY NOT? WHY WHY THE [ __ ] NOT? What are you hiding? What are you better than anybody else? You're a hero, is that what you are, man? You got a whole bunch of [ __ ] medals, but deep down you know you're full of [ __ ] You never fought that war. You weren't even there, man.
What the [ __ ] do you MEAN I WASN'T THERE, MAN? WHAT DO YOU MEAN?
>> NEVER MIND, HERO. Come clean. Why should I? What the [ __ ] are you hiding?
>> I'm not hiding nothing. You're the one that's hiding down here in Mexico.
You're the one that's hiding. What are you hiding from, you whiny Don't [ __ ] me. You never killed a baby, anybody, anything, did you, Colby? Did you? Did you? Did you? Did you?
>> You ever LOOK AT YOURSELF IN THE [ __ ] MIRROR?
>> Did you? [ __ ] you.
>> You. No.
You.
You. You.
[ __ ] get off.
Get off me.
Stop.
We need a ride.
Okay.
You okay, man?
[ __ ] you. You're full of [ __ ] You're okay.
You're okay.
We had a town once, Charlie.
Had a mother, a father.
Things >> [sighs] >> Things had made sense. Do you remember things had made sense?
Things you could count on.
Before we all got so lost.
What are we going to do, Charlie?
>> [snorts] >> I'm not going to do it.
>> [music] >> [ __ ]
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