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    Hearts and Minds (1974) [The Criterion Collection #156]

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    Date: 1 Sep 2011 13:17:15
    Hearts and Minds (1974) [The Criterion Collection #156]

    Hearts and Minds (1974) [The Criterion Collection #156]
    DVD9 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Cover + Booklet -> 25 Mb | 112 mins | 6,69 GB
    Audio: English AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps + Commentary track | Subtitles: English SDH
    Genre: Documentary, War | Won Oscar | USA

    A courageous and startling film, Peter Davis’s landmark documentary Hearts and Minds unflinchingly confronts the United States’ involvement in Vietnam. Using a wealth of sources—from interviews to newsreels to documentary footage of the conflict at home and abroad—Davis constructs a powerfully affecting portrait of the disastrous effects of war. Explosive, persuasive, and shocking, Hearts and Minds is an overwhelming emotional experience and the controversial winner of the 1974 Academy Award for Best Documentary.

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    This controversial, Oscar-winning film about the the Vietnam War caused quite a stir when it was first released in 1974, and it remains a powerful piece of documentary filmmaking. Director Peter Davis tells the story of the American involvement in the War through the recollections of politicians, soldiers and everyday citizens.
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    The most impressive and courageous thing about Hearts and Minds is that it was made during the Vietnam conflict, not afterwards. Ignoring the controversy it would undoubtedly raise, the film simply presents a set of facts from newsreel footage and some of the people who created policy, and examines the effects of the policy on the people who lived it.

    Hearts and Minds (1974) [The Criterion Collection #156]

    No war is noble from some perspective, but it's difficult to find anything redeemable in the Vietnam conflict, especially after the 1971 revelation of the Pentagon Papers. Hearts and Minds' truth isn't very flattering to the United States. The docu takes pains to deglamorize the fighting by showing the pain and the cruelty of bombing, indiscriminate killing, and torture. The revered image of J.F.K. is tarnished by the story of how he was complicit in setting up and tearing down a succession of puppet presidents for South Vietnam. American fighting men brag about torturing and murdering their captives. We see villages being burned and hear the testimony of a Viet man who tries to return to farming but keeps getting rounded up into 'relocation' camps. An outspoken and vulgar veteran talks sardonically about losing an arm and a leg to friendly fire. An ex-pilot expresses his guilt over bombing civilians. Non-Communist South Vietnamese risk their lives expressing anti-American sentiments.

    Hearts and Minds (1974) [The Criterion Collection #156]

    Hearts and Minds holds back very little. Uncut film footage is presented of two highly-publicized still images - The South Vietnamese police chief who shoots a captured VC in the head, and horribly burned, naked children running in terror down a road from a napalmed village. Especially controversial is a sordid sequence in a brothel where we see two soldiers serviced by Vietnamese prostitutes. The situation must be common to every occupying army in every war in history, but we've never seen documentary images of that kind before - and not with 'our boys'. The message is that the official line about defending freedoms to help our friends was a lie - our soldiers, including our commanding general, see the Vietnamese as dirty subhuman gooks, unworthy of our blessing. The ultimate blow comes when the film juxtaposes footage of unquestionably sincere grieving Vietnamese, against General Westmoreland's assertion that Asians don't value life in the same way we Westerners do. The honored soldier's best words about Vietnam are that, "It would be very nice, if it wasn't for the people."

    Hearts and Minds (1974) [The Criterion Collection #156]

    Director Peter Davis takes us on a history of facts and perceptions, using a few feature movie clips to augment his interview and docu footage. Interviewees speak their sincere thoughts and reveal their inner feelings for cinematographer Richard Pearce's intimate camera. Shrewd editorial direction bounces contradictory ideas off one another, and isn't above seizing visual opportunities, as when a shot of a cigarette lighter in the brothel, is echoed by another cigarette lighter used by a soldier to ignite the thatched roof of a peasant hut.

    Hearts and Minds (1974) [The Criterion Collection #156]

    No docu or propaganda movie, truthful or not, is going to change the world, and Hearts and Minds won awards and praise from liberals while being ignored by the country at large. If it were produced in Canada or England, it probably would have been denied import, on account of its 'subversive' content. Its producer fought for a year to get Columbia to release it, and finally had to buy it back when they wouldn't. There is a lot of important, painful truth here.
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    Hearts and Minds (1974) [The Criterion Collection #156]

    Disc Features:
    * New digital transfer, enhanced for widescreen televisions
    * Audio commentary by director Peter Davis
    * Accompanying booklet containing multiple printed essays on the film
    * English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired
    * Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition
    Hearts and Minds (1974) [The Criterion Collection #156]


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