The Sympathizer (by Viet Thanh Nguyen) is the antidote to Apocalypse Now

Rating: 6/10 (6 November 2016)

Francis Ford Coppola is a distinguished director and a man of letters, and I'd be interested to see if The Sympathizer, the Pulitzer Prize winning book by Viet Thanh Nguyen, features prominently on his bookshelf. The book, published in 2015, was a reposte to Apocalypse Now, which in itself is an impressive movie in many respects.
Anyone who said that history is written by the victors has never watched Apocalypse Now or any other movie in the "Vietnam" genre from our great shores. Funny that no WWI movies pumped out from the USA are called "Germany" movies.
Anyway, one of my favorite scenes is the restored scene where Captain Willard broke bread with a French family running a plantation in Vietnam, representing the vestiges of French colonialism (who did well to teach the Vietnamese to do decent bakery).