Hearts and Minds
Be still my beating heart. Hearts and Minds, Peter Davis's absolutely incredible documentary on Viet Nam is online. There are a lot of great documentaries, butHearts and Minds does so much more than virtually all of them. It sidesteps preaching without submitting to artificial "objectivity" and choreographs information in such a way as to simply beam and transmit. The movie has few peers and the fact that it is online must both be a mistake and something to be exploited immediately.
However, Hearts and Minds deserves a non-jumpy full quality viewing that the internet can't fully provide. Not to plug The Criterion Collection, but there is an excellent DVD available. Nonetheless, Hearts and Minds is so so so so good.
However, Hearts and Minds deserves a non-jumpy full quality viewing that the internet can't fully provide. Not to plug The Criterion Collection, but there is an excellent DVD available. Nonetheless, Hearts and Minds is so so so so good.
Labels: documentary, Hearts and Minds, vietnam
posted by History Is A Weapon at 6:31 AM
1 Comments:
Thank you very much for pointing out this documentary, it is truly a great peace of war-reporting. It lets the viewer judge for himself, which makes it much more convincing than, for example, the present M. Moore's anti-war propaganda.
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