I bought this when it first came out (2014) and still haven't come up with enough guts to view it.
Last Days in Vietnam paints a startling portrait of defeat snatched from
the jaws of victory by Congress.
What everyone knows about the Vietnam War is that it was unwinnable,
that the South Vietnamese didn’t much want us there, and that our
military involvement was a moral outrage that did us all deep dishonor.
We know all of this from the movies, don’t we? And yet there is a movie
that shows it up for the pack of lies that it is. It’s a brilliant,
harrowing, emotionally potent documentary by a director with
unimpeachable liberal credentials — a Kennedy, no less. The 42nd
anniversary of the fall of Saigon on Sunday was an excellent opportunity
to revisit what happened between the Paris Peace Accords of 1973, in
which the North Vietnamese Communists agreed to a ceasefire and accepted
democratic elections in the South, and the spring of 1975, when a
failure of American will allowed the Communists to reverse the result
for which so much blood had been spilled.
Last Days in Vietnam, the Oscar-nominated 2014 film by Rory Kennedy (the
youngest child of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who died before she was
born) is available for streaming on Netflix.
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