Vietnam War, Hearts And Minds Produced By Peter Davies (Term Paper Sample)

Hearts and minds produced by Peter Davies is a tough documentary entangled with sad events. Creating this documentary was a way of attempting to inform the uninformed of the fallacy of the conflict leaders push us into .Vietnamese was stereotyped and made to seem less intelligent. The documentary cuts in between scenes of horrific American soldiers setting fire to grass thatched huts, to some soldiers being in bed with some Vietnamese prostitutes. There is also a burial of a south Vietnamese with general William Westmorelands shocking statements that “life is cheap in the orient”. People mourned of their lost loved ones ,homes and livelihoods. This is no different in the “impossible victory” where President Kennedy sabotaged president Diem and pretended to be supporting him in war but secretly had thousands of troops on the ground in Vietnam trying to get rid of that regime and reinstate a new one.
USA bombed Vietnam with regardless of women and children. Children and women were rounded up, put in a ditch and shot.My lai Pro...