Hearts and Minds

I found Hearts and Minds to be a very interesting movie. It definitely is a 'pro-peace' movie in a sense, and uses the soldiers that were actually there to prove this point. Some of the scenes in this movie were quite horrific. I think this is important in Peter Davis' perspective because it allows the viewer to really question the cost of war. I really appreciated the fact that this documentary gave us a view into what it was like from some of the Vietnamese. Instead of being insane, crazy ass soldiers (like portrayed in the other films we have watched thus far), it shows them as being human. They lived day by day defending themselves. The thing that impressed me the most about this film is how it juxtaposes political policy next to reality. In the end it yields that some of their policies were short-sighted, and politicians often do not think well enough into a conflict (which could be said for other foreign conflicts that the US has been involved in).