What are you helping us with?

Clifford 2022-03-25 09:01:07

I watched the movie "Good Morning Vietnam" last night, about the Vietnam War in 1965. In the end, the teenager asked: "My mother died and all my neighbors and friends died. What are you helping us?" This question was asked by the local people during the Russo-Japanese War and the Korean War. I don't know why.

When it comes to Vietnam, I think more of Duras's "The Lover", a French girl with a pink male hat on the Mekong River and a rich Chinese young master. War, colonization, lust, this land is as humid and complex as its climate.

The heroine's white Aodai is beautiful. Just like the morning sun in Vietnam, it is pure, gentle, fresh and beautiful. The beauty of war and suffering also shines.


The photo is their farewell scene, their only contact.

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Extended Reading
  • Icie 2022-03-24 09:01:37

    The development of the film's plot is reasonable and expected, and the setting of the characters also set the tone at the beginning. Connor, the protagonist, has a better understanding of the situation in Vietnam after experiencing continuous ups and downs. My favorite episode is the chase and dialogue between Connor and his Vietnamese friend at the end, because the movie doesn't glorify them, it just exposes their respective paranoid thoughts, which is a sense of reality. So although I don't know much about Connor's jokes, I can totally feel the passion for life he shows from his performance. It's just that no matter whether Connor stays or leaves, the starting point of everything, the different cognitions and perspectives on the same thing have not changed, the paranoia still exists, so the contradictions still remain. It seems that enthusiasm has changed something, but in fact nothing has changed.

  • Garnett 2022-03-24 09:01:37

    On 7.8/10, I don't know if there was a Robin Williams in this Western film, but I think it is possible.

Good Morning, Vietnam quotes

  • Adrian Cronauer: [to the racist sergeant] I got to tell you somethin', you know? I've been all around the world, seen a lot of places and a lot of people. I have never, ever in my travels come across a man as large as you... with as much muscles, who has absolutely no penis.

  • Adrian Cronauer: Oh, Edward, don't you do anything that's not by the book?

    Edward Garlick: Not when I get into trouble. No I don't.

    Adrian Cronauer: You know, Eddie, sometimes you got to specifically go out of your way to get into trouble. It's called fun. What's that? Come on. Take some chances once in a while, Edward. That's what life's all about.