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Advantages: Interesting look at Vietnam, complexity of morals and ideals Disadvantages: Unlikeable characters, a bit slow at times
with the ending and moves between different periods of time.
The protagonist is an English reporter, Fowler, who is world-weary and doesn't seem to believe in anything. He is separated from his religious wife who won't give him a divorce and lives with a young Vietnamese girl, Phuong. Fowler is portrayed as jealous and selfish for most of the novel.
Phuong remains an enigma throughout the novel and never seems to have a voice of her own. Both Fowler and Pyle have their own idealized versions of her but we are never sure what her true character is. Most of her decisions are made by her elder sister who wants to marry her off to a foreigner. Phuong accquiesces to the needs and wants of the men who claim to love her. All she appears to want is protection and financial security.
Pyle is the "Quiet American" of the title and is young and idealistic. He ...
Advantages: A truly brilliant film Disadvantages: The second half of the film
This has to be another film that's in my top 10. A truly brilliant film with all round quality throughout.
Plot
This film follows the life of a young army recruit that is nicknamed Joker as he goes though training and then gets moved to Vietnam for a tour of duty. During training, he is forced to work with the most incompetent private in the platoon, nicknamed Private pyles, who is soon detested by everyone. [WARNING SPOILER!!!] Pyles soon becomes insane and ends up killing the drill sergeant before turning the rifle upon himself. [SPOILER END!!!] The second half of the film follows Joker as he goes into the field to take photos and ends up in a fiery battle in vietnam. I think the plot starts to go downhill after the drill sergeant is killed as he is by far the best character in this film.
Characters
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Advantages: Good acting from Michael Caine Disadvantages: Slow-moving
on a true story of three aboriginal girls abducted from their homes as part of Australian official policy, has won much recognition.
The story
Thomas Fowler is a journalist in 1950s Vietnam, where he combines having a young and beautiful mistress, Phuong, with doing as little work as possible. Threatened by his bosses in London, he starts to make a foray into a deeper understanding of Vietnamese politics by going to the most war-torn area of Vietnam at the time. Around the same time, he meets an American journalist, Alden Pyle, who saves Fowler's life at one point.
The two men become quite close, until Fowler realises that Pyle is in love with Phuong. Eventually, Phuong realises that Fowler will never be able to divorce his Catholic wife back in the UK, and leaves him to set up home with Pyle. Then one day, Fowler realises that Pyle is not ...
