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  • what caused him to be like that ? step on landmines ? or get shot by artillery ?

    (sorry 4 my bad english before)

  • @hiddenbehindthemask landmines

  • @hiddenbehindthemask Actually it was an artillary shell

  • docs want his for experiments-and other stuff--- but they cant show u that

  • So he got his limbs blown off and his face scooped out, but at least he has a nice head of hair!

  • @TheVoodude much women are into curls ^^

  • Every time i see a johnny got his gun video i feel like crying :'(

  • Every time i see a johnny got his gun video i feeel like crying :'(

  • johnny got his gun... but got no face

  • Im afraid to see this movie,it would disturb me so deeply......

  • @14Srb88 It would. I had to stop reading the book at points because it was bothering me so much. This movie was the same way.

  • @scraps992 Ive seen the movie,its really sad and horrifing...

  • @14Srb88, Ik how you feel. I wanna see it too but then I think to myself, I'd rather enjoy a good nights sleep.

  • @GermenWarfare ^_^ Its not that haunting,but it really will make you sad....

  • im balling after this

  • It must be hell to live like that...I mean he has no legs,arms mouth or anything. He`s just a moving piece of meat. This movie has to be the best saddest movie I ever seen.

  • Nothing, dimemberment, death, blood, nothing has ever bother me.

    This made me cringe and made my stomach turn.

    After this i still have a bad feeling.

  • I don't get it. Nurse sees his head moving, so he must be alive. Why isn't she doing anything?

  • @Marjoyyh1 they know hes alive but he cant speak or anything so they dont know wat he wants obv if i was a doctor id kill him its cruel leaving him like that

  • @motordeo Oh, thanks. I really must see this movie, even thought it makes me cry

  • @motordeo everyone in this world should see this movie just to know that every time they feel pain that the only way it can get so bloody bad to the point it cant get any worse is this

    to me this is true "oblivion" and my biggest fear in this entire world

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  • @motordeo agreed. Can't imagine that there's 1 person one this planet that wants to live like Johnny.

    Best thing to do is to free hm from his suffering

  • @Venom1246 Unless, he found a way to cope inside his own mind. And communicate with doctors. It would be suffering either way, but can you imagine if he WANTED to live? And someone decided for him, to pull the plug? Laying there in bed, unable to communicate, begging to be allowed to live, but no one hearing his pleas..... It really goes both ways. In real life, I think people should do whatever they can to find a way to communicate. Remember Helen Keller?

  • METALICA ONE

  • @Hammiams METALLICA

  • Heartbreaking.

  • I could not live like this, i could never see a family member live like this, i could never see anyone live like this, why would they let someone live like this!!!!???

  • i really feel sorry for this poor bastard

  • where's the hot nurse from the metallica video? ;)

  • awesome movie. one of my all time favs

  • God, why do they keep him alive? It must be like torture for every second.

    No arms, legs, ears, eyes, mouth. He cant do anything. Hes trapped inside his dark mind. What the fuck thats worse than torture

  • @theblackbull55 he cant live, he cant die.

  • Mmm, mmm. Dinner.

  • WHAT A NIGHTMARE!!!THANK THE HUN FOR THE BEAUTY OF GAS!20th centurys legacy mechanized warfair!so horrible 2 horrible 4 words!

  • Why do I identify with this guy?

  • i dont see why they would want to keep him alive if he has no arms,legs,hearing, cant talk and cant see. it would suck to live like that. id rather want to die

  • @gangman42 they only kept him alive because they thought he was in a coma but i know what you meen so would die. but the worst thing is he cant contact the doctors .

  • @pugNdrum yeah, thats gotta suck

  • "there is no peace without war" Aristotle

  • I would even dare to say that it is an instinct. Uncontrollable. That is what makes us human. That is what makes us a life form part of the whole living on Earth.

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  • Calm down dude, i'm not ranting about anything, chill.

  • Well leshager, seeing as it's been around a month (a little late for your reply) don't you think i would have found out it was because of metallica (besides i couldnt even find a torrent for this before i posted my comment)

  • this really makes you go insane once give it a thought... I got cold sweat running over me after watching this short cut out. It's too much of a psychological pressure to bear. By far the MOST depressing and frightening movie I have ever known. I mean from the psychological perspective. Oppressing.

  • I just read the news about this man named Rom Houben who lived like Johnny, complitely paralized for 23 years, while the doctors thought he was in a coma..

    He said "'I screamed, but there was nothing to hear"... poor guy :-(

  • @RideTheLightning316 actually his name is joe in the movie but u know that is similar though.

  • @RideTheLightning316 yeah he said all he could do is dream of being somewhere else

  • @RideTheLightning316 Thanks for that story, but the main character's name is Joe, not Johnny.

  • this is prbably the best acting i've ever seen

  • what's more extreme is that these guys were completey hoodwinked by the concept of warefare! no inet access, primitive information exchange, war was a rosy picture on the face of it, and governments of many nations made a superb job of it!

  • I could not agree with you more. Ironically nothing has changed today - government promotion of war feeding people with invisible threat. Pure war mongering nothing more. It's a cynical joke which George Carlin (let his soul rest in peace) made but it is so true ''We like wars. You know why we like wars? Because we're good at it'' by G.C.

  • ah well, it could be much worse: we could could all be overrun by an absurd natzi population. lets give credit to the anglo-amercian alience!

  • Gotten rid off one problem the 'big men' created another one. It is no good today anyways, neither it was then... Yup, I admit that we can search out a lot of pluses today but at what cost these benefits (if I may say so) humans earned? That's another question.

  • yea, nowadays we can be more refined about the implementation of 'force'. Presumembly we can be safe sitting in the 'green zone'. How you would coordinate a multipolar world - in a realm where politicalisation is the linchpin of diverse motivations - can surely only be recognised through these horrible histories. However, you will always get those who want to get their face dirty, no matter what cost!

  • @Valdinsh I watched this as a young kid on T.V once, this clip, and it really disturbed me. But I think.... Personally, after enough time, it would be possible to come to terms with it. I read about a girl named Hellen Keller, who grew up blind and deaf (a real woman), and she learned to communicate and write, even finding joy and happiness in life. I believe there is almost always hope, and it bugs me (not that you were saying this) when I hear people talking about just, giving up. :(

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  • How can he feel to know he has no face? With what is he feeling?

  • Probably just the sensations in his face or lack of in his case.

  • This makes me cry.

  • @chriscooke109 same here. its hard to watch after reading the book

  • Why is this film not available for purchase in the US??

  • there is a scene in the movie "saving private ryan" where a soldier gets hit in the face by a shrappnell at the beginning on omaha beach. he is the radio operator. i think that is the way johnnys face looks like.

    but in the end, it is not necessary to know how ot looks

  • sad...he can cry or anything

  • Hurry mother hurry hurry hurry and wake me up. I'm having a nightmare mother where are you? Hurry mother. I'm down here. Here mother. Here in the darkness. Pick me up.

  • Ok so dont get hit by a mortar and i wont lose my fricking mind.

  • What is this movie rated? I can't seem to find that information anywhere. Also, which is better, the movie or the book.

  • both the book and movie r good the movie just gives a better feel too it

  • i think 2/1 stars

  • God thats horrible

  • do you actally see his face without the white box thing?

  • no he's like that throughout the whole movie but i think you get a description on how he looks

  • you probably all know this but metallicas one is based on this movie

  • Well, the book technically. I read it and some lyrics are based on specific parts.

  • that did happened. In Germany there were after the war so called silent hospitals, in which vets were housed. These vets couldn´t live outside.Not only because of their own pain, but because it was not possible to show the public these gruesome injuries. Another story here in a near village they knew bout one vet, that also as "Johnny" had no limbs and face. He just had a hole where his mouth was. And that guy screamed all the day.They just gave him morphine.He lived in one of these dark places

  • i saw clips from this movie the metallica music video 'one',and it looks really creepy

  • i want this movie...where can i get it and whats it about

  • where can i get this movie?

  • Why would you put this scary moive on youtube?

  • its a fantastic film

  • do u see his face in this movie it seems scary and freaky

  • In the story he has no face anymore, no eyes, ears or anything, his face is a crater. And in 1972 they probably did not have the special effects to show anything like that.

  • However, in the book it says that he has the bandage over his face as well. Joe theorizes that this is so the doctors and nurses won't have to see what remains (or doesn't) of his face. The film is fairly close to the book as it was written and direct by Dalton Trumbo who also authored the novel.

  • I think that having shown his 'face' in the movie wouldn´t have been the scariest part. In fact there are no scenes including blood etc.

    But what makes it scary is his state of being alive/dead..of not being able to see or feel the difference between thought,dream, reality, night, day,,..He´s basically just lying there in complete darkness all by himself which is driving him insane.

  • He's in what they call "Locked in Syndrome". Its scary to think of.

  • yeah i read about it but this guy cant see talk smell or ear, most of the people with that syndrome see smell ear and those kind of stuff they just dont move

  • father , what is democracy?

    I belive it has something to do with young men kiling each other <33

  • as you can see not the killing part is the most horrific death is nothing only life can be tragic and war makes life tragic for guys like him

  • This is scarry to me because think if it happend to you

  • where can i rent this movie? it seems good but sad

  • y is he like that and what is that on his mouth?

  • while he was hiding in a hole in world war 2 he got hit bye a mortar so he lost all feeling, all of his face including his eyes mouth nose ears,his ability to speak and all of his limbs and the thing of his face is a mask to keep you from seeing his face i dont think you'd want to see that...

  • does it show you his face at any piont during the movie? it seems pretty gruesome. this a true story or anything?

  • It is sorta true, let's put it that way.

  • this has happen to people, but it isnt based on any one person, and no, they never show his face

  • Actually, Dalton got the idea when he read about a Canadian solider like this in the paper If I remember correctly.

  • this always reminds me of slipknot - purity a song about a woman who got buried alive but this is worse

  • listen to one by metalica, and read Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo. It's hardcore anti-war, and it's brilliant. Any possible chance of me joining the army is gone.

  • desperately sad

  • is he strapped on 2 the bed?? why doesnt he just roll over the bed and try 2 to something from there?

  • He has neither any arms nor legs, and in the book it is said that he attempts to roll on his belly to suffocate himself by blocking his tracheotomy, but fails.

  • (Ok, that was a reply to an old post, don't know why it appears here.)

  • In the end of the movie i still hear "S...o...s...help...me...s...o­...s...help...me..."

    for hours,this got to be the saddest movie in existance.

  • If not, the most erie.

  • Fantástico! Simplesmente para pensarmos sobre o que somos... Ímpar, em todos os sentidos.

  • this had to be one of the saddest movies i ever seen

  • i never saw this, what happened to him?

  • he was hit by a mortar shell during WWI. he lost all of his limbs, face and all senses except feel. doctors keep him alive for the purposes of science thinking he's braindead, but he's not.

  • ohh wow thanks.

  • look at 02:43 and listen the dialog for metallica - one (videoclip)

  • What confuses me is how does he know where she is, and even that there is a nurse in the room, without being able to hear, speak or see?

  • He feels the vibbs from the bed.Like for example if you close your eyes and hold for your ears and lay down on the floor you will feel footsteps

  • oh cool cheers :-)

  • he senses it

  • hes able to hear padzyfoley

  • In this movie, is the body or face of the guy ever revealed to the audience?

  • no, you never see anything of his after he is injured.

  • thanks

  • This is so sad. I am going to the book store tomorrow and buy a copy of this book

  • terrorific!!!

  • why did they killl him?

  • they didn't in the book they never kill him it just ends

  • i know a nightmare is coming tonite about this

  • You have to feel sorry for this guy I mean he lost his face, senses, limbs, practically everything. If someone were to laugh at this, then I would like to tell them this: Put yourself in his place. Being kept alive like a freak at some twisted carnival show. The nurse was actually nice enough to try and kill him, but the general wants him still alive. Why would they still want him alive is what I would like to know.

  • the only thing that never made sense....

  • It was illegal to kill a patient then; same as murder.

  • Thats not the point of the book or even the movie at all. The point is that the military finds it cheaper to attempt to repair a soldier than to train a new one.

  • He wanted to like a freak ina twisted carnival show, to show everyone the worst war has to offer

  • Pisses me off that they don't kill him. Metallica did a good job portraying this movie. War is cruel, but it is impossible to avoid. Peace in one place is hell in another. The world has no balance point.

  • I was inspired to track down this movie after seeing The Diving Bell and the Butterfly last night. It's a French-made film (subtitles) based on the biographical account of a guy who'd suffer a stroke and could only communicate with his left eye. Excellent movie.

  • This movie really makes you think... not just about war, but about life in general. We get mad at stupid stuff that doesn't even matter, and we don't know how good we've got it. We could be stuck in a lifetime of absolute hell like this guy, yet we take for granted what we already have. This movie really makes me stop and think before I get mad at something that doesn't really matter, and remember how good we've really got it.

  • who ever gave this guy a negative vote needs a life .

  • How did he feel the inside of his face if he didn't have a tongue? I don't get that.

  • He tried moving it, but nothing reacted.

  • Upload the whole movie!

  • fuck now im gonna go to bed and dream about being like this lol hope not

  • ive been searching for this movie all over and i just found out that the university im at has this movie in vhs at the library! cant wait to see it, seems pretty thought-provoking

  • woops now i know

  • did his whole face get blown up?

  • unfortunetly yea

  • This movie/book could make anyone feel better about their life. Cause nothing in the world is worse than being a living chunk of meat. It's even worse than being a vegetable.

  • being a vegetable isn't all that bad <.<

  • whats the point in keeping him alive if all they're doin is fucken makin him suffer

  • the goverment is keeping him alive as a example of the horrors of war.

  • And if the doctors killed him, it would be a murder charge.

  • Why would they keep someone alive when the landmine has taken their sight, taken their speech, taken their hearing, taken their arms, taken their legs, taken their soul, left him with life in hell?

  • thats straight from metallica...

  • Which is straight from this movie...

  • ah !!!! touche.....

  • ok no need to steal mettalica lyrics

  • Stealing a bit of metallica, aren't you?

  • poor show old chap nicking of with metallica lyrics...:(

  • what happened to him?

  • whats a summary of this movie?

  • Some guy gets hit by an artillery shell in the war and is left as a torso. He lost his arms, legs, hearing, sight and most of his face. He's essentially a social experiment.

  • this is a sad sad movie

  • does he ever die

  • you'll just have to find out XP

  • no they let him live and they jus leave him in a warhouse and the movie is over

  • Deep. This just goes to show you, if we go on with this war there won't be just One like this there will be many.

  • good new for you if i get the film i try to put it to download on internet if there is a place to download already tell me plz

  • He killed him self in rl

  • wht u mean?

  • I'm the only person in my school who is reading the book

  • You think reading a book makes you cool or something?

  • i read the book this summer and cant wait for the new version of the movie next year. this might be the scariest story i could imagine. and what makes it even worse is to consider how many times this has probably happened.

  • No dude One is not about Cliff Burton The other guys r right its about this moive. Lokk at the lyrics... Cliff burton died in a bus accident and the lyrics have nuthing to do with tht.

  • in 2008 there will b a new 1 with Ben McKenzie :D i will defenatly watch it

  • thank you for posting this.

  • Woah thats intense

  • if somthing like that happens to me I would rather fuckin be dead case all those cocksuckin activist say its a sin to kill someone in that state i got news for them. a god that alows them to do something like that is a sick god or there sick for doin it

  • i read a book bout this movie with da exact title and its bout the guy who stepped on a land mine and lost his legs arms and his face but still lives, man thats amazin yo thas crazy

  • actually, the Metallica song "One" is based on the death of their bassist, and sorry about marking you as spam colmMICHEAL, I meant to press reply lol.

  • thats depressing

  • So is the Metallica song about this movie? Coolio

  • I think the metallica song (that is great by the way) "one" talks about the movie.

  • it does

  • this is IN METALLICA ONE YES!!!!

  • snookums; Can't remember the very end, but he does begin to communicate via morse code saying he wants to be paraded as a freak show attraction.