painful memories

Rating: Null/10 (7 March 1999)

I was there, and, though I was just a kid, and female, and Canadian, the Vietnam War and its related chaos were burned into my brain. This film makes the political personal: one man's story. Now I know why the war memorial in Washington D.C. moved me so much when I saw it for the first time four years ago. The battle scenes seem appropriately confusing and the rest is appropriately horrific. Thanks, Oliver Stone, for the memories, however painful.