Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem lies in the alternative--leaving a Vietnamese government in Phnom Penh. Unwilling to let Vietnam extend its sphere of influence, both China and the United States would prefer the opposition coalition that includes the Khmer Rouge. But the Cambodian people would...
What does this have to do with the average Harvard undergraduate? Practically nothing--and that's the problem with Gitell's prescriptions. Gitell compares the University's potential role in the War on Drugs with its cooperation in World War Two, but a better analogy might be Vietnam, another conflict directed by Harvard's "best and brightest." This is another war America can't win, but at least this time Harvard's faculty are a little more cautious about the prospects for victory...
...final few scenes of the movie, which bring together Emmett, Samantha and her grandmother at the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Washington D.C. are undeniably moving. They show by their contrast with the rest of In Country exactly how fine a film was lost in the production of this motion picture...
...Vietnam veteran Emmett Smith (Bruce Willis) is in the audience watching the graduation of his niece Samantha Hughes (Emily Lloyd) from the local high school in Hopewell, Kentucky Samantha never knew her father who was her age when he left to fight in Vietnam but she does become obsessed with the need to find out about her father, and she is dismayed to find that no one around her is willing to talk about...
Willis does a wonderful job of portraying Emmett Smith the reclusive, cynical and alienated veteran of the Vietnam conflict. He brings a hard-edged intensity to an underwritten character who should have commanded more of In Country's focus. Richard Hamilton and Peggy Rea also lend a much needed sense of realism to the movie with their fine portrayals of Samantha's grandparents...