Comparison of Bao Ninh's book The Sorrow of War and Oliver Stone's film Heaven and Earth
War has always been destructive, both of land and people. The war in Vietnam was no different, and the testimony of the people that lived it makes the events memorable and tragic. In later years the voice to speak for the people involved in the war changed, and so did the point of view. There is no longer just the American side of the story, the hardship that American soldiers went through or had to deal with on return home, but there is also the Vietnamese story, and in no way is these people's story less dramatic or moving. Both Bao Ninh's book, "The Sorrow of War", and Oliver Stone's film "Heaven and Earth" deal with the war in Vietnam as a story told from the perspective of the Vietnamese. In doing so they offer a unique understanding of the people that were involved in the conflict on first bases, the people that lived and fought the war. "Because of the media bias with regard to the Vietnam conflict, readers and movie goers world wide know about how the American's suffered in Vietnam and about how it's war veterans have trouble adjusting to life back home in the US. But the American's lost less than a million men in that war and their social institutions and infrastructure survived relatively the war relatively intact. The
He fights for his country, and to do so he gives up his way of live, his family and love. This changes them and their actions and responses. It concentrates on a character less exploited in other renditions of the war in Vietnam, and that is the Vietnamese people. At first the film presents the idyllic life in the countryside, but as the story progresses the atmosphere grows darker. The way they see life and relationships with other people is also shaped by their experience of war. Unwelcome in her village, she flees to Saigon with her mother. It is structured as a series of reminiscences, jumping backwards and forwards in time between the events most salient in memory, events which take on a different hue each time they are examined. In Danang, the dislocated farm girl peddles cigarettes to GIs, becomes a bar hostess, and is finally rescued by Steve (Tommy Lee Jones), a U. )After her two brothers join the Viet Cong, she volunteers to help the Communist cause. Ngor), a farmer who has suffered under the successive invasions of the Japanese and the French. " 8In Oliver Stone's film "Heaven and Earth" the story again focuses on the Vietnamese point of view of the war in Vietnam. He abandons his lover and spends years plodding through the jungle where everything dies. Apparently the director felt that the conclusion of his "Vietnam Trilogy" should present the story from another point of view than his previous films.
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