Word: binh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...composed of his peers. Usually the panel is dominated by officers who are older and more at home in the service than he. When enlisted men are selected, they are often crew-cut senior noncoms with little sympathy for youngsters who challenge military custom. At the Long Binh logistics base in South Viet Nam, however, a civilian lawyer and a veteran Army colonel recently collaborated to produce the most unusual jury in military memory...
Raoul Coutard's Hoa Binh begins on the outside. Its first shot is a map of East Asia, and there is the Vietnam of our mind's eye, a twisted banana fastened to the Asian underside. The map gives way to images of American soldiers, transporting weapons, rescuing the wounded, and patrolling the jungle. Still, it is Vietnam from without, seen through Western eyes, in terms of bombing targets, helicopter landing zones, bars and whorehouses...
...Binh is as fond and as compassionate a film as I can imagine coming out of the Vietnam War. It locates the tragedy where it belongs--among the Vietnamese. It is a good movie about...
...think: what if it had been made ten years ago? Or: what if Nixon had seen Hoa Binh twice instead of Patton...
...American defending his country's participation, and later, when he is taken to a political meeting, listens to a member of the N.L.F. explain its ideology. Both speakers are persuasive, and both promise victory. For Coutard, obviously, politics pale beside a single human imperative. In Vietnamese, hoa-binh means "peace." · Jay Cocks