Amazing emotional triumph

Rating: 10/10 (28 September 1999)

Seeing this movie after being in Vietnam for two years, I walked out of the theater wondering how anybody who hadn't been there could possible get the dark emotional content of Vietnam so perfectly. This movie should be experienced, not just watched, for it is as emotionally close to the unreality of being in Vietnam as any movie ever made. The follow up, by his wife, is a very important movie in its own right and both should be used to teach all new film makers about the grand passion.