The Quiet American
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Movie Reviews of The Quiet American
Movie Review: A bright diamond of a film.....
Summary: 5 Stars
The plot has been described well by a number of reviewers. This is a steadily paced film. In it we see the lives of its characters growing more complex and nuanced, precisely as Vietnam itself is undergoing the same. Michael Caine is in love with a beguiling, beautiful and disciplined Vietnamese woman, but tethered to a wife in England. In one remarkable scene, a man joins Caine at a table at an outdoor bar and laments to Caine the loss of his son, about which he's heard from home, but Caine cannot spare the time to listen, and appears puzzled by the story, perhaps doubting the credibility of his guest. A bomb explosion in the city is vividly captured. Everyone and everything is growing more difficult in this country, and to all expatriates the home country beckons in one way or another. A brilliant introduction to the country on the eve of a chaotic epoch.Movie Review: Big Dark Almond Eyes........To Die For.......
Summary: 5 Stars
Michael Caine does it again as a English journalist in 1952 Vietnam when France was still in-charge of 'their' colony....Caine has a marvelous, tranquill lifestyle here, writing timely war encounters back to his London newspaper by day and by nite cohabitating with a simply gorgeous Vietnamise knockout, who thinks he is her King in all senses of hedonism and beyond...enter a seemingly unheralded USA doctor and both men become friends through thick an thin encounters along the way...I won't go into the plot any deeper...by doing such...you can emerge yourself into this engrossing/interesting film....but one thing is for sure...you won't dare take your eyes off Do Thi Hai Yen...WOW!!!...talk about heaven with her under heaven...'those big dark almond eyes to die for and then some'...enjoy a darn good movie for a change....SSGT CHRIS SARNO-USMC FMFMovie Review: Talk about premonition...
Summary: 5 Stars
This is THE story about the beginnings of America's involvement in the mess that became the Vietnam War. Graham Greene had future vision and even in 1955 knew what would happen. He both explains and predicts the future in The Quiet American, a beautiful film with Michael Caine playing Fowler, a Brit journalist in 50s in Vietnam. Fowler's beautiful but opportunistic Vietnamese mistress, Phuong (who is herself a metaphor for the country itself), is coveted and for a while, claimed by a seemingly innocuous American named Pyle. Slowly, Pyle's real purpose in the country is discovered, and Fowler's servant upsets his determinedly neutral, uninvolved stance by saying, "There comes a time when you must choose sides."Absolutely wonderful, profoundly thought-provoking, multi-layered film.
Movie Review: Thoughtful look at a little known time
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is set in 1951/52, at the time that the French involvement in Vietnam was drawing to a close and the American involement was just beginning. It's a story set in a time and place that has vanished and can never be recovered. An expatriate reporter, living a complacent, expatriate life is forced to make choices in his life that will affect the fate of everyone around him.
Michael Caine superbly captures an air of world-weariness and desperation. Philip Noyce keeps the story moving along and Chris Doyle's photography captures the beauty of Vietnam in every scene. This is a lovely, deeply affecting movie. Highly recommended.
Movie Review: Oddly Current while Remaining Historical
Summary: 5 Stars
I will let the other reviewers talk about Michael Caine's excellent work as well as the rest of the cast. What struck me about the movie was the sense that you could easily remove vietnam from this and insert Iraq. The sense where one sees the cynical european wanting to leave things as they are (and not so secretly benefiting from the opressive situation) and the not-so-quiet bull-in-a-china-shop American looking to just "fix" the situation only to be confronted with it's inability to really know where to begin. When all plays out all parties are hurt and we are left wondering if there wasnt some other way. We still are.