The soldiers are portrayed as being manipulated by their leaders – through vicious racism and religious derision – into brutal action against the non-aggressive “hostiles.” When the villain, the American military leader of the attack, plans to bomb flat the indigenous people’s sacred tree, he boasts that he will blow such a massive hole in their “racial memory” that they won’t come “within a thousand clicks” of the place again.
电影里，这些士兵被描述为是受他们的领导人 —— 这些人运用恶毒的种族主义和宗教嘲讽 —— 所指挥而对当地毫无侵略性的“敌人”展开无情的攻击。当剧中作为反派的美国攻击部队领导人计划炸平当地人的森林时，他傲慢地说打算在这些人的“种族记忆”中炸出一个巨大的裂口，让这些人再也不敢靠近该地一千步的范围之内。