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This is a tragic story in which a soldier falls in love with a trans woman and has to fight to keep it a secret during the "Don't ask/Don't Tell" era.
I don't know whether anyone else picked up on this but it appears to me that the motive of his roommate having him killed was jealousy. When you look at the various scenes in which the roommate behaved as though Barry's first allegiance should have been to him (like expecting him to stay in the barracks instead of going out, or wanting him to get up and clean the place with him) it seemed pretty clear that he secretly wanted a relationship with Barry and couldn't admit it because of how strict the policy was in the military. I think as the relationship between Calpernia and Barry got deeper and more committed the roommate became incensed and felt that if he couldn't have him he'd make sure nobody would one way or another. He was just waiting for the right opportunity and manipulating a younger kid who already had criminal tendencies suddenly seemed to him like the perfect crime. His telling him about cross-dressing as a child and his kissing the other trans woman at the club, and probably frequenting it regularly in the first place was a clue and his rage was an externalization of his own inner conflict over his gender identity. Deflecting this onto Barry he thought he would keep the attention and scrutiny of superiors off of himself.
Even though this focused on Barry from his point of view I would have liked to have known more about Calpernia's background and whether she had grown up with similar bullying. It did appear that she was accepted in the neighborhood she lived in based on the fact that the barbecue included some from the club but also other non-trans people in her neighborhood.
Aside from these deeper issues covered in the movie it seemed that the combat training these airbone infantry were getting was more akin to the army. I assume "airborne" means Air Force, so all the ground training didn't make sense. You would think they would be learning how to fly fighter jets.
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