Heaven On Earth By Oliver Stone And Hawayein By Ammtoje Mann

This paper will prove that the film “Heaven on Earth” by Oliver Stone and “Hawayein” by Ammtoje Mann, have many similarities and difference both convey the audience through emotionally connecting them with the main characters grief and misery in life, making the film a more powerful film. Initially proving that the movie “Hawayein”by Ammtoje Mann does this much more prominently and is “good history” through showing the suffering of the main character and the overall visuals costume presentation is much better.
The first film is a Punjabi film that is ban in India called “Hawayein” due to the government being corrupt. “Hawayein” is a film where Ammtoje Mann’s shows the arising consequence of Blue Operation and the results of India’s Prime Minister …show more content…
In this film the main character is a Vietnamese women who is shown growing up and living in a little Vietnamese village named Le Ly. Her life was changed complete once the communist insurgents came into their village continuing the Vietnam War. In the film Le Ly is, Le Ly is captured and tortured by the South Vietnamese government troops, similar to in the movie “Hawayein” Le Ly was tied against a pole with other girls and had honey put on their feet and legs allowing bugs to crawl up on them, while putting snakes inside their shirts this was done so the troops could get more information and answer to the question and information they need to become more dominant. While this happened Le Ly was also raped because the Vietnam Cong though she was a suspect of a traitor giving out information to the other country. After the sexual assaulted, her connection with her town was ruined, and she and her family were forced to move out, as the town believed she was a traitor as well. Later moving into the city of Saigon, Le Ly was and she is working for a family. Were master of the house deceives her into believing that he honestly cares for her, and that Le Ly is everything to her leading her gets pregnant by him. The master's wife comes to being very furious and angry towards Le Ly and her whole family. Forcing her to be fired and being kicked …show more content…
Oliver Stone went with lighter shades to show poor people but I found with the lighting in the background allot of the background character had lighter shaded clothing as well. Plus we knowing this as a fact, that not everyone during the Vietnam War wore light coloured clothing. Compare to Ammtoje Mann’s film we shows really shows the reality of how people use to dress in those days. While talking to my grandpa I found out at the time he was 35 years old while watching this form with him he stated “this film is closest to how it really was in reality at that time... I can remember majority of the events and they were similar to what I remember seeing in person especially with your dad’s uncle…”.He went on explaining how farms usually wore kurtha pajama and wore turbans and women wore simple cotton suits. While watching this film he explained how he remembers the clothing trends back in the day were shown in the film flawlessly like the director had kept them from time all these years to make this film. He remember how plaid turbans were the style and that is what Ammtoje Mann used in his film to connect to the audience better, my grandpa also said this film was like the voice of the victims and the way the director showed his visual overall in general made it more of a