Afrasianet - Ibrahim Nasrallah - The Americans left Vietnam, leaving behind a heavy legacy that the helicopters that left in a hurry could not carry them on board, a legacy that has nothing to do with the large number of bodies that filled the streets, but the large number of lives that were thrown and were the remnants of this terrible war that swept people, trees and stones.
The Vietnam War, some of which constituted the greatest satire of American policy and America itself, were and still are great testimonies of some of the most important American directors: Kubrick, Stone, Coppola.
These films were great marks in both the march of protest and the march of the seventh art, "and this is what we did not find with the same depth and intensity, after their war on Iraq and their war on Afghanistan."
Years after that horrific war ended, the fruits of cruelty continued to grow, through the thousands of children born to American parents who were passed over as if they were part of a war scene that no one wants to remember.
Today, it traces the great torments that this young man is enduring, starting with society's rejection of him as the title of a stage that no one wants to remember, to his attempt to find his own hell as a final redemption, through his search for his mother on the little journey, from the village to Saigon, and his search for his father on the grand journey from Saigon to Texas.
So, it's not strange that the girl Ling who loved him on the journey of the doomsday says to him, "Look at me." He replies, "I'm looking at you," but in fact he was looking at her shoes, not her face, and that's what he always did with everyone he met.
For a moment, the magnitude of his breakdown seems to be a kind of handicap, but we come back and remember his skill at fishing, his lightness, and his ability to do many things perfectly, as we will see as events unfold. In the distance between the fractured man and his big-footed father Steve (played by father Nick Nolte), there is an enormous amount of horror, and it is no coincidence that the father the son finally finds is blind, otherwise how could a son who lived through all this brokenness end up staring into sightful eyes?
That refraction found its objective equivalent in two blind eyes. So it was only natural for him to stare directly at them, finally, without fear!
The director depicts the bright side of anything but the good relationship that he had with a Chinese girl with whom he found himself by her side in a Malaysian detention camp for unfortunate immigrants who fell into the hands of the Coast Guard for one reason or another.
The girl's role is considered one of the most important roles, as her dreams of reaching the theaters as an artist were shattered, and the arrest turned her into a girl who sells her body in order to obtain the most basic living conditions in that camp.
Beinh's relationship with her grows in a closed space, in which the guards not only lurk with the migrants, but also the migrants themselves, and Beinh himself is hostile in his view of her, because of what she does, but the girl's relationship with his little brother, who is no more than five years old, reveals an extraordinary intimacy, motherhood, and compassion Brokenness, then, is the result and essence of this heavy history and the character crushed by all kinds of humiliation, and so the dream journey of finding the father turns into a journey to hell, and nothing else, as the mother remains behind him as a perfect candidate to be accused of a crime she did not commit after the lady of the house fell and died on the wet tiles, and her youngest son, a brother with a beautiful and tyrannical presence, dies on the ship bound for America, this son who will later find out that His father is the son of that aristocratic woman, as if the Americans and the wealthy of Saigon are doing the same role: having children of the Vietnamese common people and throwing them into the unknown, with no identity and fate.
The next few days together are an attempt to learn about the father's past and the reasons why he did not return to take his wife and son with him, "he had married the mother in the church", but these days, which are monotonous in that vast, desert desert land, promise nothing The only thing we feel is that a good relationship is slowly growing, ruled by necessity by the father who eventually finds someone, anyone, by his side, and is governed by the choice that turned into fate, because that young man has no freedom to go back, because he has nothing behind him.
He has finally found his despair, his despair that has nothing but him, and so he is planted by his side, desperately clinging to it.It remains to be noted here that all the main characters are non-American, except for the two influential short roles of Nick Nolte "The Father" and actor Tim Roth, who played the captain of the immigration ship."
The Beautiful Country" is a truly moving film, a profound argument against cruelty, violence and decomposition of responsibility, a living testimony that wars do not end just because of a ceasefire, a living testimony that wars that begin never end.
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