anyway; while working on the essay series that became this book, I tried to find any american film that centered the experience of Vietnamese people, who were, after all, the main victims of the war.https://www.amazon.com/Yet-Another-Heart-Darkness-American-ebook/dp/B07GYBHQ1G …
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There may be some indie film I missed, but I really didn't find any. I did write about a N. Vietnamese propaganda film; the contrast with American depictions of the war is stark.https://www.amazon.com/Yet-Another-Heart-Darkness-American-ebook/dp/B07GYBHQ1G …
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I like Roger Ebert a good bit, but his review of Apocalypse Now Redux just underlines all these problems. Like the film, the review just helplessly spews racist garbage.https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/apocalypse-now-redux-2001 …
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Ebert says Kurtz leads his own band of "tribesmen," as if tribes were a thing in Vietnam. It was a heavily urbanized country! they didn't fight with bows and spears.
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Ebert babbles about the mystery of the Congo and the mystery of Vietnam. They're not mysteries to the people who live there, you know?
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"When you get to the bottom of who Kurtz has become and what he is thinking, you can see how the war transformed the original American idealism." okay...but was the real tragedy of the war the transformation of american idealism?
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Was the American war effort in Vietnam ever idealistic anyway? we went in there for realpolitik reasons, which were stupid, but not idealistic in any meaningful sense.
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anyway. I kind of hate Apocalypse Now.
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Ebert talks about the film's overwhelming visual power. The film's epic sweep is tied up in its racism though. The Ride of the Valkyries is not nearly as ironic as the movie pretends it is.
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several people have pointed out that the US did work with some indigenous groups in Vietnam.https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/11/the-green-berets-and-the-montagnards-how-an-indigenous-tribe-won-the-admiration-of-green-berets-and-lost-everything.html …
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Yeah, I always assumed Kurtz's "tribesmen" were a comment on CIA's recruitment of Hmong & other hill people.
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