Post by novastar6 on Apr 12, 2021 15:28:19 GMT
The wedding scene felt VERY real, you looked like you were watching an actual orthodox wedding. Most of the movie felt like, as did several 70s movies, like somebody just turned on a camera and captured real people in everyday life. And if you compare it to modern movies, you can see why, everybody is not beautiful, the church is full of fat old women with bad hairstyles and ugly glasses, real people, people talking over one another, people flubbing what they're saying and laughing at it, everyday background noises in the street scenes, people horsing around, singing, dancing, cussing at each other and it's very fluid and natural, not like today where people think screaming 'fuck' every 10 seconds is somehow phenomenal acting or adds humor, it does not.
So I get for the time people still weren't talking about Vietnam because it was new and raw, etc., but I don't get what the backlash for it was about. People thought the Vietnamese couldn't be cruel and barbaric? Really? Given the footage they were seeing of what was going on, where would they get that idea?