"When one falls, another brings him home".
Taking Chance is one of the incredible film from HBO. I felt very touched and sad when I saw this film. One word to describe this film, RESPECTFUL. I saw this film for several of times and still got the same feeling when I saw it for the first time. This film is about Lt. Col Mike Strobl (Kevin Bacon) escorting the body of a Marine, Chance Phelps back to his hometown after deceased from the Iraq War. From the starting to the ending of this film, you can see how firstly their tell Chance's parents, clean-up the body and Chance's personal stuff ( his watch, dog-tag and necklace etc ) and also the journey of Mike Strobl with the body back to the hometown starting with the airplane and changing to another airplane and ended up by drove a car. Every peoples that Mike met will show a respect to Chance. A strangers at the airport, stewardess, pilot, plane passengers, airport workers even the unknown people who drives passes Mike's car will show a respect to Chance. This film is totally not a film for people to judge about the war, the army, the leader or the cause of the war but to share some feelings that been through. I'm not a soldier, I live in a very peaceful country and I'm not a same religion as Chance but this film enough to brought all of the peoples in the world, whether you are Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Buddha or Hindu, this film totally tell a story about the meaning of the respect and to be respect. Mike totally didn't know Chance at all but he willing to escort the body back to his hometown. This enough to show that if someone died at your neighborhood either you know or not know them but if you take a part just to help even to give a penny to the family it will be meaningful to the family. Respect and helpful is a very big word and its enough shown in this film. And one last thing, Kevin Bacon did a very good job in this film and he feels the character very well. This is the film that people in the whole world want to watch. Its a true story, past story that not coming back but the director made this film "live". GOOD JOB!
