He Vietnam War He launches a long shadow in one of the most fertile periods of the American film, and has led the filmmakers for half a century since then to take into account their complicated legacy.
These 10 films, assembled to mark the 50th anniversary of Saigon’s fallFrom indelible anti-war classics to resistance Vietnamese portraits, capturing the immensity of the still reverberant traumas of the war.
The war was more than a decade and about eight years after his conclusion when a 25 -year -old Martin Scorsese made This six minutes. In him, a man simply shaves a sink and a mirror. After some Knicks and Cortes, he does not stop, continuing until his face is a bloody disaster, an orderly but horrible metaphor for Vietnam.
A girl (LAN HươNG) looks for her family in the bombarded ruins of Hanoi in the Milestone of Hải Ninh Vietnamese cinema. It is a propaganda work in times of war (it begins with the introduction: “Honor the heroes of Hanoi who defeated the incursion of American imperialist bombardment B-52”) but also by pain of humanity. With the cinema of December 1972 in Hanoi, “Hanoi’s girl” is the cinema made in the middle of the war.
The controversy received the historical documentary of Peter Davis around its launch, but time has only demonstrated how clear it was. The clips of the news and the interviews for the home are contrasted with the horrors in Vietnam in this penetrating examination of the Gulf between American politics and the Vietnamese reality. His title comes from the line of President Lyndon B. Johnson, he said when climbing the war that “the final victory will depend on the hearts and minds of the people who really live there.”
It could be said that it is the preeminent American film about the Vietnam War. No other film is more great or tragic of American evolution from innocence to the disappointment that Michael Cimino’s epic devastating about the friends of the working class (Robert de Niro, Christopher Walken, John Savage) of a Steel city of Pennsylvania recruited in the war. The final song scene for “God Bless Bless America”, after their lives have changed irrevocably, remains a powerfully moving intestine.
Francis Ford Coppola bet everything in his masterpiece, and almost lost it. “Apocalypse now” that transposes the “heart of darkness” of Joseph Conrad to the Vietnam War, is an epic of madness that staggers on the edge of hallucination. Filmed in the Philippines and more faithful to Conrad than to Vietnam, “Apocalypse Now” does not illuminate the chaos and the moral confusion of the war so much to raise it to a great nightmare.
The 1980s saw a wave of Hollywood movies about Vietnam, including “First Blood”, “Hamburger Hill”, “Good Morning Vietnam”, “victims of war” and “born on July 4”. The main one is the best “platoon” winner of the Oscar image, which Oliver stone He wrote based on his own experiences as an infantry man in Vietnam. Widely acclaimed by its realism, Stone’s film is still one of the most intensely vivid and visceral dramatizations of war.
Stanley Kubrick should be considered more frequently as the Supreme Movimaker. His devastating World War film “Paths of Glory” and the subversive satire “Dr. Strangelove or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb” are classic in their own right. “Full Metal Jacket” carries the themes of dehumanization of these films to an even more brutal place. Divided between the heartbreaking tyranny of the starting camp of the drilling instructor of R. Lee Ermey and the urban violence of The 1968 Tet offensive“Full metal jacket” fuses both ends of the war machine.
How the former soldiers lived with their experience in Vietnam has been a subject of many fine films, from “Coming Home” by Hal Ashby (1978) to Spike “Da 5 Bloods” by Spike Lee (2020). In the Non-fiction jewel of Werner Herzog, outlined the amazing story of the German-American Dengler pilot. In the film, which Herzog then remake as “rescue Dawn” of 2007 with Christian Bale, Dengler tells, and sometimes recreational, his experience is demolished on Laos, being captured and tortured and then escaping the jungle.
Not long after the change of the century, the former Secretary of Defense of the United States and the architect of the Vietnam War, Robert S. McNamara, sat down for interviews with documentary maker Errol Morris. The result is a chilling reflection on the thought that led to one of the best American follies. It is not a mea guilt but a more thorny and more disturbing rummy about how rationalized ideology can lead to the death of millions, and not yet produce an apology. Of Mcnamara’s lessons, number 1 is “empathy with the enemy.”
Steven Spielberg’s moving movie Dramatizes the 1971 publication of Washington post of Pentagon’s papersA collection of classified documents that reported the 20 -year participation of the United States in Southeast Asia. While the government analyst Daniel Ellsberg (A moving participant in “Hearts and minds”) could be considered the hero of this story, “The Post” focuses on the editorial of Washington Post Katharine Graham (Meryl Streep) and the role of war of the fourth state.
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