The Vietnam War: Film Analysis

The Vietnam war is a war between the United States and Vietnam in response of the Vietnam 's support of communism. Truman was afraid that if Vietnam was left communism, more countries will join communism and the domino theory will become true which will cause major problems for the United States. The people who paid the price of this war were the brave United States ' soldiers in which they got affected by this war in different ways whether by losing their life or by beliefs that their life is always in danger and they couldn 't trust anyone. The media and the press also had a role as they were the only way for the coverage to the people in the United States and this coverage was by making movies about the war or writing articles and publishing pictures in the newspaper which had a huge effect on the reader.

There was many stories from soldiers on how the war had an effect in their life whether during the war or after they survived and went to their homes. During his third tour in 1965, he was the only one who survived from that tour in a platoon of Cav going to Ia Drang Valley. After he finally went home he couldn 't trust anyone and always felt worried and that all people are his enemies that he used to stick a …show more content…
In the movie, When the colonel Henry Fonda tells John Wayne that they saw Apache as they came near to the fort and Wayne tells him that it is probably not Apache as they were able to see it. However the colonel is obsessed and didn 't follow Wayne 's information as if he is dealing with it as a movie not a real war in Vietnam. These are not cartoons where everything gets smashed and broken and then come back again as if nothing happened and as if nobody dies. These information viewed to the American people had a huge impact on them and most people felt sorry for the innocent kids and people who died in the war without even trying to be part