The debut picture of the young American director Danny Muni , instead of the name “ Young Hearts ” given by translators, would have approached the literal translation of the original English -language “Love and Honor” - love and honor. Indeed, in addition to the two stories of love, that they develop during the narrative, we can observe the internal conflict of the heroes that we flew to the native states from Vietnam.
The sun plays on boots,
Cigarette "Flight",
And behind the fence of the self -support,
Drings his head and waiting.
The film unfolds in 1969, in the month of July, during the first landing of a person to the moon, which gracefully rhymes with the main plot of the picture. The main characters of the film are two brave soldiers who are in the glory of a star -striped flag in Vietnam. Dalton Joyner ( Austin Stowell ) is an old warrior who knows firsthand what honor and devotion to the country, Mikey Wright ( Liam Hemsworth ) is rather a rake than a soldier, and in combination the main joker of the detachment. After the next operation, when the Joyner was almost killed, and their combat comrade was very wounded, he decides to escape to the dismissal to his girlfriend, who suddenly wrote to him that he wanted to part with him.
And you wait for me, good
I will come, you do not pamper.
Will be a ribbon machine gun
Beat a kiss
In the end, two old friends, albeit almost complete antipode, sit on a plane that flies to their homeland. But everything will not turn out to be as smooth as the brave private planned: in the house of his girlfriend, a squat of “children of flowers” formed, who have their own attitude to what is happening in Vietnam, exactly like to the to welfare in military uniform. Among the pacifist youth, there is a girl in which T -shirts falls in love, and we see how the love story of the ordinary joystick is already receding into the background, becoming just a complement to the main plot of the picture.
Eh, my cordial affairs,
Blood rages like a wave.
And on the mind all the topics are eternal
Yes captains wife.
A constant unspoken conflict is felt throughout the film: radical “children of flowers” with home -grown ideas about what is happening in Vietnam, they read pathos anti -war lectures to observe everything with his own own eyes and the Jemeter, and they agree exclusively to win the location of the squat members. What to give preference, love or duty to the homeland - both soldiers are asked with this question, and everyone finds their own answer for himself.
I have to dig a trench.
I dig like a slave.
Those for Stalin, for Lenin,
I am for all Russian women.

At first it seems that the director of the picture seems to justify betrayal and desertion, if it is completely under the influence of such an ephemeral and incomprehensible, but strong feeling as love. Six months of service and unconditional devotion to their homeland, combat comrades and many successful operations - all this is put under blow and is simply ignored when this feeling arises, which Burrose calls the disease. But the final choice of the main characters is fully justified, and, despite the atmosphere of the late sixties, which were the “era of the beyond reality”, even the largest pave and the joker was able to figure out exactly at the moment when Nile Armstrong approached the atmosphere of the Earth on Apollo 11.
The most very shebutny,
You are my most coveted friend.
The most ... such
My self -control.