In the Year of the Pig
by Emile de Antonio
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Actor: Daniel Berrigan, Harry S. Ashmore, Joseph Buttinger, Philippe Devillers, William R. CorsonDirector: Emile de Antonio
Producer: Emile de Antonio
Editor: Hannah Moreinis
Editor: Helen Levitt
Producer: John Attlee
Producer: Orville Schell
Producer: Terry Morrone
Producer: Vincent Hanlon
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-09-20
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Homevision
Movie Reviews of In the Year of the Pig
Movie Review: Showing a historical lesson on the Vietnam War up to 1968
Summary: 5 Stars
Even though this film came out in 1968, before the Tet Offensive, Nixon's Vietnamization Policy, the Pentagon Papers, etc., it is important in that it reveals what people were thinking of during that time in the late 1960's, when the War was already dividing the U.S.
A lot of information that many books don't cover about this war is touched on (up to early 1968, of course), including the viewpoint of the Politicians that either supported or was turning against this war.
A nice little history lesson of what was going on with the war just about halfway through the bloody conflict. As others have said, there are better films and books out there, but this does help out in a topical sense, in that you can understand what both sides felt 40 years ago.
Summary of In the Year of the Pig
Produced at the height of the Vietnam War, Emile de Antonio's Oscar?-nominated 1968 documentary chronicles the war's historical roots. With palpable outrage, De Antonio (Point of Order, Underground) assembles period interviews with journalists, politicians, and key military personnel and international newsreel and archival footage to create a scathing chronicle of America' escalating involvement in this divisive conflict. The savage and horrific images speak for themselves in perhaps the most controversial film of de Antonio's career, and the film he cites as his personal favorite.Both sober and sobering, producer-director Emile de Antonio's In the Year of the Pig is a powerful and, no doubt for many, controversial documentary about the Vietnam War. But although the 1968 film ultimately focuses on the United States' participation in that ill-fated venture, de Antonio provides a considerably broader historical perspective; indeed, a good portion of its 103 minutes traces the 20th Century history of Southeast Asia, including French colonialism and the rise to power of Ho Chi Minh (described by one U.S. Senator as "the George Washington of his country") as the Communist leader of North Vietnam. Combining extensive file footage with de Antonio's own interviews with a variety of political and military talking heads, In the Year of the Pig goes on to deliver a clear indictment of U.S. policy and tactics in Vietnam, beginning with America's purely "technical" role in 1954 ("We are sending planes, but no pilots," says one general) and continuing through its support of the corrupt Diem regime in the mid-'60s, President Lyndon Johnson's steady escalation of U.S. military involvement, and the growing opposition to the war effort here at home. Yet while De Antonio's doesn't hide his anti-war point of view, this will never be mistaken for a Michael Moore documentary; there's little in the way of sensationalism or humor, and rather than confront his targets in person and onscreen, a la Moore, de Antonio simply gives them enough rope with which to hang themselves. Still, the DVD release of In the Year of the Pig in 2005 makes it hard to ignore the parallels between Vietnam and Iraq. In fact, when one of the interviewees suggests that "maybe what we've been doing in Vietnam all along is an exercise in. the arrogance of power," some might wonder if things have changed at all in the last forty years. --Sam Graham
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