The film uses beautiful cinematography along with superb sound mixing, soundtracks, and a huge budget to recreate the Vietnam War as closely as possible. ... This pounding mix of sounds creates such a powerful feeling that it hits the viewer with a wave of energy that pours out of Captain Willard's cold, dark, and blank eyes, all before they are even introduced to him, or even heard him speak. ... As a viewer one is left thinking of the gore and gruesome details within the action of the war sequences and "Indeed, the very nature of cinema has the tendency to turn war into spectacle, and a...

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Mankind's" history was dominated by violence, whether its political war, domestic violence, social violence or personal violence, violence had abided in our culture visibly and invisibly. ... Vietnam war ), religion ( eg. the current Palestinian and Israelian internal conflicts ), and sexual orientation. ... Victims or survivors of holocaust, for example, the Cambodian women, were subjected to physical injury, torture and sexual assault during the war. ... The legacy of war is the trauma and losses of surviving soldiers, veterans and civilians. For the sake of war, politic...

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William Duiker, Minh's biographer, a man who served in Saigon's US embassy during the Vietnam War and who interviewed Minh's colleagues, succinctly summarizes Ho's description of the party's aims in the Brief Rules of the Party: "The Communist Party of Vietnam has been organized to lead the laboring masses in the class struggle to wipe out capitalism and imperialism, and build a Communist society." ( It seemed that National independence helped build socialism while socialism gave an epochal connotation to national independence, helping it to become most effective an...

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