Oh, Saigon

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Audience Member I'm watching this wrenching documentary on streaming Netflix and it's touching me on many levels, first as a Vietnam vet who served a year in Saigon where this family lived - and escaped on the day before the city fell to the North Vietnamese Army in 1975. Secondly, I'm watching it as that naive young Army captain, a two-time participant in that tragic civil war that American hubris and ignorance drew us into and that destroyed or separated millions of Vietnamese families like this one. And, thirdly, I'm also experiencing it as a kind of expatriot from my own family, too, in a sense, and appreciating the healing and uplifting power of family as I watch this Vietnamese family living a refugee's life in an American culture largely alien to them in Louisville, KY, finally make their journey back to their homeland after thirty years in the States - and see the reconciliation between the brothers, one of whom the father of the family hadn't seen in sixty years. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member A beautifully told personal movie about how family relationships change and don’t change when going through a traumatic event such as war. Shot over a period of 5 years, Oh, Saigon is about a family who have a lot of different perspectives, from the Fall of Saigon, to the boat people, to assimilating as refugees and their children in America, and those who stayed in Vietnam after the war on both sides. I have seen this movie several times and get more and more out of it with each viewing. Highly recommended. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 12/31/17 Full Review Audience Member Awesome film about a family in the Vietnam War. Very real, deep & honest. It's good to see the Vietnamese side of the war, instead of the way they were portrayed in American movies. It makes other Vietnam war films seem very limited in perspective. This film takes the war from the angles of not just soldiers, but of women affected by war as well. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Audience Member Really amazing documentary about a Vietnamese family in the Vietnam War - a side that we don't get to see much in the US. Very revealing and moving. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member I can't wait to see this. Especially because my friend Christina Goodness helped shoot it! :) Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member I've seen this movie three times, and it gets better everytime! So much going on. Very rich and interesting. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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