Cinema: Vice And Victims in Viet Nam
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But still the movie does not work. Its true story is too singular to serve as the basis for moral generalizations. The ideas advanced by the film are, in any case, not significantly different from the ones put forward by opponents of the war while it was going on. But it is its distant and curiously monotonous tone that finally betrays Casualties of War. It numbs the conscience instead of awakening it.
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