After some posts tonight on (some real) christian values (IMO) in the 60's related to Vietnam protests, I happened to view a portion of "Good Morning Viet-Nam". Though not a great film, it has some great cinematic moments. Though we may bicker and have some different points of view. I appreciate your love of films. I have such too, though I am sure not as extensive and as refined a sensibility as you have.
There is a one minute sequence in this film, that is IMO, awesome in conveying the power of cinema, while devestating to the heart. Back ground music is Louie Armstrong's great... , or i should say the great Louie Armstrong's rendition of "Its a Wonderful World". With footage of the real ironies and contradictions of Viet-nam: beautiful landscapes, pastoral villages, sweet people, then with US soldiers propositioning young girls on the street, indigant protests being met by brutal repression by vietnamese police (smelling of US training ), helicopters napalming villages, etc. All of which, ironically brings to mind the sweetness I feel for Viet-nam still today -- even amid the horror of the war and, IMO, US arrogance -- similar to Iraq today. Perhaps such memories are influenced by the Vietnamese reastuarant I use to eat at in France when I lived their in the early 70's. The sweetness is for the Buddhist soul of the country, co-mingled with French and catholic sensibilities -- while imperialist and nauseating, still the mixture of a sweet gentle buddhism with french design, culture and tastes, to me leaves a fragrant feeling for that era and the country. Not so much a question or point to make. More an observation -- which made me think of you, in Paris, a Buddhist of sorts, and a fan of cinema. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
