Hearts and Minds
Hearts and Minds, winner of an
Academy Award for Best Documentary, presents a provocative examination
of the U.S. involvement in Vietnam. It chronicles the war more from a
psychological than political perspective, tracing the cultural forces
and attitudes that led and kept us there. The film offers personal recollections
from all sides of the conflict - generals, presidential advisors, a deserter,
an ex-POW, limbless casualities, Vietnamese and French government officials,
peasants from the North and South, and from a Vietnamese coffin maker
who had lost seven of his own children. Hearts and Minds portrays
the war as a manifestation of misguided patriotism and blind ignorance
buttressed by racism, self-righteousness, and anti-communist hysteria.
It strongly expresses the brutality and dire human consequences of war.
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