With our renewed rapport with Vietnam, it would be good to view or review that area if the world.
This is a well-put-together film documentary of a seven-month trip around Vietnam. Not one of those glossy government or fancy travelogue films, but a personal trip that was documented with letters.
There are some parts that may be gory to some people during food preparation times. Others would be appalled at the wanton destruction of forests and wildlife.
I was viewing it with my wife to show her a little bit of what it was when I was there. She immediately said that the villages (especially the huts) looked surprisingly like the dwellings in the Yucatan.
Even though this was a well put together documentary, I was disappointed as my time there was mostly in the central highlands Pleiku, An Khe, Kontum and thereabout. And when she went up the coast she missed all the high spots.
The Montagnards she interviews were Mongol invaders; they were not the Montagnards I was aquatinted with. The Montagnards of the central highlands are approximately 14 to 16 separate people that were in the highlands before the people that call themselves Vietnamese invaded from China thousands of years ago. In essence, they are to the Vietnamese the equivalent of our Native Americans.
The film was still worth it as I was able to see places that I missed and the rundown state of the country today.
This is a well-put-together film documentary of a seven-month trip around Vietnam. Not one of those glossy government or fancy travelogue films, but a personal trip that was documented with letters.
There are some parts that may be gory to some people during food preparation times. Others would be appalled at the wanton destruction of forests and wildlife.
I was viewing it with my wife to show her a little bit of what it was when I was there. She immediately said that the villages (especially the huts) looked surprisingly like the dwellings in the Yucatan.
Even though this was a well put together documentary, I was disappointed as my time there was mostly in the central highlands Pleiku, An Khe, Kontum and thereabout. And when she went up the coast she missed all the high spots.
The Montagnards she interviews were Mongol invaders; they were not the Montagnards I was aquatinted with. The Montagnards of the central highlands are approximately 14 to 16 separate people that were in the highlands before the people that call themselves Vietnamese invaded from China thousands of years ago. In essence, they are to the Vietnamese the equivalent of our Native Americans.
The film was still worth it as I was able to see places that I missed and the rundown state of the country today.
