re: #223 goddamnedfrank

I feel like the Burn documentary is getting better at this as it goes along even though he is approaching it as primarily an America story with fewer Vietnamese perspectives even though it was their country. I would’ve liked more of the personal NV stories like episode eight’s female NVA truck driver and her engineer fiancé both working in separate positions of the Ho Chi Min trail.

Still the fact that Vietnamese, especially then North Vietnamese fighter perspectives are being shown at all let alone with equal personal legitimacy is somewhat remarkable. I can’t imagine this approach in decades past. What’s really fucked up is that despite the introspection we seem to have regarding the Vietnam War itself, it seems we’ve learned nothing except to do the exact same shit elsewhere.

Right. I’d like more NV stories too but you’re right. That their story is being told at all is a great improvement from what we’ve seen in the past. I do think Burns docu is American centric for a reason given the target audience.