At its core, the film is a study of two different types of "soldiers." Allison is a man defined by his loyalty to the Marine Corps—a literal soldier who lives by a rigid code of combat and physical survival. Sister Angela is a soldier of God, whose life is governed by spiritual discipline and her upcoming final vows.
When the war ended, when the sea finally let him step ashore for a long while and the world spun like a coin on a counter, he returned to the island. The reef was patient and indifferent, the coral rearranged itself in ways remembering never manages. There was no house where there had been a cairn, but there were traces—pots, a child’s carved figure, a patch of scorched sand. He walked the shoreline, letting the ocean’s small rehearsals erase his own footprints, until he found a woman with a kindergarten of children at her side, hair threaded with gray but a smile intact. Heaven.Knows.Mr.Allison.1957.INTERNAL.BDRip.x26...