Hearts and Minds

This movie was really good at indirectly depicting Americans in a bad way. I noticed that half of the movie didn't actually criticize what we were literally doing. One would obviously understand this aspect of the movie if they also understood the context. Some of the movie seemed to just show what we now know were obviously faults as something people did without knowing what they were doing wrong at the time. In other words, several of the people in the film are depicted as just plain ignorant, particularly General Westmoreland. Sadly, I think that a person as distinguished as him is more or less a representation of the ideal American. He is a representative for all Americans. This ignorant depiction of Westmoreland (or all Americans) is probably a big reason that Hearts and Minds was such a controversial film when it was first released. People didn't like being proven wrong.