影片怎一個"簡"字了得： 劇情簡單，敘述簡潔，結尾簡率。 鏡頭簡約，特效簡陋，配樂簡樸。 正是由于"簡"，反而突出了上校指揮官查里蒂·亞當斯(Charity Adams)的大將風范和非凡氣場。尤其，是她那慷慨激昂的犀利言辭，簡明精煉 、字字直擊、句句要害。 這要歸功于她的扮演者凱麗·華盛頓（Kerry Washington）扎實的臺詞功底，她精彩絕倫的表演，令人敬佩。 三場精彩的表演如下： 一、在激情澎湃的戰前動員中，她剛勇堅定，鏗鏘有力，給女兵們鼓舞與力量，令人振奮： ladies，we have been ordered to provide hope and communication and care packages to our exhausted soldiers on the front lines and to let their families back home know if they are safe or if they have died in battle ... This is our mission and we will not fail ...

女士們，我們奉命提供希望、通信和愛心包助力我們前線疲憊不堪的士兵并讓他們的家人知道是安全的或是戰死沙場 ... 這就是我們的任務，我們必將完成 ... 二、對于軍隊牧師的傲慢無理、蓄意歧視，她直接開懟，立馬轟走，絕不留情： -I said those are my things. 我說那是我的東西。 -Yes, as are this, by your feet. 是的，你腳下的那些東西也是你的。 -You will be leaving here today. 你今天得要離開這里。 -I was sent by General Halt. 我是哈爾特上將派來的 -I don't care if the good lord himself sent you. 就算是上帝派你來的我也不在乎。

I am the daughter of a preacher, I know the Bible from Genesis to Revelations and backwards. I am a woman of faith and tremendous character and I lead these women with a stern hand and the love and understanding that I would think a chaplain should. Now I have had to endure the hissing and backstabbing of white men in the millitary. I have learned every law in this Army to defend myself and to get to where I am now, so if you think I am afraid of you or whatever you can write in a letter to anyone，then you are as wrong as you were in that so-called sermon today. This soldier here will take you wherever you want to go, but you will be on your way right now。

我是牧師的女兒，我熟讀《圣經》從《創世紀》到《啟示錄》我倒背如流。我是一個有信仰、品格高尚的女人，我領導部下時恩威并濟其中包含我認為軍隊牧師應該擁有的愛與理解。 現在，我不得不承認軍隊中白人男性的嘲諷與暗箭。在這支軍隊里，我學會了保護自己的所有法則好不容易走到現在，所以 你如果覺得我怕你或者怕你給誰告狀，那你就大錯特錯了，正如你今天所謂的布道一樣，錯的離譜。 這位士兵會帶你去任何你想去的地方，你現在就得立刻走人。 三、面對將軍的無端指責，她目光堅毅、毫無畏懼、直言不諱、擲地有聲: Sir, with all due respect，my battalion is working day and night in horrible conditions. We have no heat in most of time, gets so cold that the women have to put the water in helmets to wash themselves. You give us this place to turn into a barracks with no bed and no hope，and my women are harassed，and then they are befriended, only to be asked if they have tails under their skirts after midnight, because of the rumors of white soldiers. You set a chaplain, not to pray, but to spy on us. We just lost two soldiers to a UXB who were highly trained, and I know because I trained them, and you wouldn't even give the orders for them to have a proper burial. Now, I know we are fighting a war, but our war starts with being Negro, we are fighting on every front. So as I said，sir, over my dead body, sir ...

長官，恕我直言，我的營在惡劣的條件下夜以繼日的工作。大多數時間都沒有暖氣，天氣寒冷，女兵們只能用頭盔盛水洗漱。你讓我們把這里變成兵營，可連床鋪和幫手都沒有，我的女兵們受到騷擾，就算后來受到友好對待，也只是別人要問她們，午夜之后裙子下面是否會長尾巴，這都是因為白人士兵造謠。 你派來一個軍隊牧師來監視我們，而不是來做祈禱。 我們剛剛失去兩位被未爆彈炸死的士兵，她們訓練有素，我清楚這一點 因為她們是我訓練的，而你連讓她們體面下葬的命令都不下達。 我們知道我們在打仗，但我們的戰爭從生為黑人起就開始了，我們在方方面面上都要戰斗。 所以，正如我所說，除非我死了，長官 ...