If you get The Discovery Times channel on your cable service…The documentary Hearts and Minds comes on at 9.
A touching, troubling film about the Viet Nam conflict.
Best documentary 1974.
I think this is the only film I damn near lost it at when it came out. I don’t know if I should use a spoiler, so here’s my first (I think):
It’s the scene where a Vietnamese woman is so beside herself with grief on the death of her son that she climbs into his grave. Westmoreland is saying, in voiceover, something to the effect that “these people don’t view life nor feel it like we do” (I can’t remember the exact word). Christ.
I may not be remembering it exactly right, but hey, it’s been 30 years and I was sobbing like a baby.