Hearts and minds

Ok so although I had to watch the movie two times, I did enjoy Hearts and Minds just because of its different outlook on the war. This is one of the few movies that I've watched that didn't portray the soldiers as heros out there protecting America with faceless Vietnamese hiding in the woods. The way that you can see how what was actually happening in the war and what was being told to the public by the American government was startling. I think the scenes that effected me the most were the ones in which a Vietnamese man is talking about how his innocent children were killed by boms and then in the next scene you see General Westmoreland saying that the Vietnamese don't value human life. It was scenes like these and others that were so blatantly false that led me to believe that the war was just so falsely conveyed to the American public.