What there have been, though, are some unbearably fascinating near-misses it's as though the unresolved tensions that make an unimpeachably great Vietnam War film impossible have also fueled filmmakers to go overboard with ambition in attempting to somehow contain, in a cinematic prism, the War That Got Away. Too many psychic scars, maybe could be that the divisive, angry politics surrounding the war make it harder to reckon with it than the "we're all in this together" good feelings surrounding WWII. In memory of Michael Cimino, 3 February 1939 - 2 July 2016Ĭompared to the glut of masterpiece-level films about World War II, American cinema has - perhaps surprisingly - never produced a wholly great and uncompromised movie about the United States' war in Vietnam.
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