Recommended DVD: "The Beautiful Country"

Posted by Bible Probe on March 27, 2006 at 21:01:06:

The liars say America lost the War in Vietnam, when actually America just lost the will to sustain the fighting there. Over 50,000 Americans died there. Forgotten, however are the over 2 million Vietnamese refugees who have risked their lives to come here, and most have proven to be excellent citizens. Damien Nguyen was extraordinary in this film.

The film opens with the statement: 'Bui Doi' meaning: "less than dust." The phase is used to describe the children of a Vietnamese mother and an American father.. One of the consequences of America's involvement in the Vietnam war, was the children of GI's by their Vietnamese wives and lovers. For years those women who were involved with Americans were social outcasts, treated as collaborators while their children, even when living with grandparents, endured taunts and abuse. This is the story of one such love child, Binh (Damien Nguyen), being forced from his village at 17, going to Saigon to find his mother, then trying to escape to America with his much younger half brother, Tam (Dang Quoc Thinh Tran), in 1990. The film lingers on the rigors of the voyage: the sampan, the Malaysian detention camps, the illegal refugee ship, and the underground economy with near slavery in New York City. It finally opens up when Binh leaves New York for Houston to find his father.
2005. Letterbox. 125 minutes.

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