I may. But I've read a fair bit about that war and seen a lot of the previous docs and not sure I can handle more. It's so infuriating on so many levels.
One criticism of American documentaries and films on the Vietnam War is that we tend to focus only on how much it messed up America and American soldiers and we don't talk much about Vietnam or the Vietnamese. Oliver Stone made a decent movie out of When Heaven and Earth Changed Places by Le Ly Hayslip, but it bombed commercially and wasn't as well reviewed as Platoon or Born on the Fourth of July.
And even that story was a lot about Americans. She married an American and came here. In the film, her husband and his PTSD is a big subplot (not in the book/reality).
Part of that is simply that it wasn't as easy to get the stories of the Vietnamese as it was to find stories of Americans, both because of the language barrier and that it wasn't a very open country for a while. But I suspect all of that has changed somewhat.
One criticism of American documentaries and films on the Vietnam War is that we tend to focus only on how much it messed up America and American soldiers and we don't talk much about Vietnam or the Vietnamese. Oliver Stone made a decent movie out of When Heaven and Earth Changed Places by Le Ly Hayslip, but it bombed commercially and wasn't as well reviewed as Platoon or Born on the Fourth of July.
And even that story was a lot about Americans. She married an American and came here. In the film, her husband and his PTSD is a big subplot (not in the book/reality).
Part of that is simply that it wasn't as easy to get the stories of the Vietnamese as it was to find stories of Americans, both because of the language barrier and that it wasn't a very open country for a while. But I suspect all of that has changed somewhat.
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