So here we have a storyline that is quite simple as the south Vietnamese right-wingers run away to the USA a young man from the Communist side sneaks amongst them and goes to the USA with them the idea being to report on HQ back in Hanoi about their shenanigans planning etc etc so far so good it is quite a nice clever plot
A lot of the time the language of choice is Vietnamese as suits the story so we flit between American English and Vietnamese sometimes 10 times in one episode there are seven episodes of one hour each about
It feels as if this could've been a hugely brilliant piece of work and instead it is a very adequate piece of work which feels as if it has fallen short of the mark for some reason which we cannot quite pinpoint
Totally worth seeing for originality and also the subject matter I do not see many films/series made about what happened to the ones who fled in 1975
PS wrote a separate piece about episode 4 Give Us Some Good Lines (2024) which struck me as the best one out of the 7.
- We are given oodles of Robert Downey Jr. I think and I lost count he plays four different characters in there with totally different outfits Robert Downey Jr. Is a great actor but his enunciation is very very poor it is almost impossible to understand what he says at times subtitles were extremely welcome here I have seen that before with him in different films.
- The storyline is very original because you have the young Vietnamese man the Communist in the States and parallel to that you have the tale of him if he had stayed behind we think and he's in a prison and recounting what happened to him when he went to the USA and writing it up as a confession for the Komissar so there is a kind of dream world alternative story line running alongside the main story it is a tad confusing at times but quite creative and original
A lot of the time the language of choice is Vietnamese as suits the story so we flit between American English and Vietnamese sometimes 10 times in one episode there are seven episodes of one hour each about
- It is well put together very well stitched a tad confusing at times due to the aforementioned parallel storylines it is quite humorous I think we get rather oversaturated with Robert D but since he is such a great actor it is okay in the end
It feels as if this could've been a hugely brilliant piece of work and instead it is a very adequate piece of work which feels as if it has fallen short of the mark for some reason which we cannot quite pinpoint
Totally worth seeing for originality and also the subject matter I do not see many films/series made about what happened to the ones who fled in 1975
PS wrote a separate piece about episode 4 Give Us Some Good Lines (2024) which struck me as the best one out of the 7.
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