Linking her own experience to its intercultural context, Nga also combines rhetorical strategies with humor, passion, and wit. It pushes harder than that, resists orderly resolutions, and demonstrates that the past is constantly being rewritten to serve present regimes. But, Nga insists, this idea is not only produced by the movies. We also see two interviews with General Westmoreland. Westy in a white suit, seated by a gently flowing stream.
Life is cheap.
Cut to Nga's own interview with the retired general, backstage at a Miss Saigon Benefit. He leans on a cane, his face leathery with age. When she asks why he would have said such a thing. So much for the difference between documentation and fiction. She also includes an interview with her father, who was in charge of the South Vietnamese foreign ministry's press relations and whose brother, still in Vietnam, was the South's Defense Minister.