The Quiet American Comments

  • Mortimer 2023-02-09 04:16:19

    I don't see any feeling in the story, I like the atmosphere of this...

  • Billie 2023-01-22 15:43:16

    1. When I read the novel, I thought that this Englishman should be played by Michael Caine, but he should be younger. 2. One of the reasons why movies based on novels are always scum is that good stories are built on details, often details that can’t fit in 90 minutes, especially stories in the context of...

  • Reymundo 2023-01-18 09:33:37

    The casting is great, British and American, outside and inside, old and young, living and ideal, resigned and desperate, old-fashioned and naive, with a middle-of-the-road oriental beauty standing in the middle, set in a country with a strong colonial atmosphere and era. It's just that the overall execution is still weak, and it may be difficult for the movie to capture the inner drama in the...

  • Daniela 2023-01-14 06:02:59

    On the eve of Vietnam getting rid of the French colonists, a young volunteer from the United States insisted on intervening between him and a young Vietnamese female lover after meeting an old British journalist, and finally brought the beauty back under the pretext of saving her. But it backfired. The film has a certain political satire, especially the metaphor about the CIA, suggesting that the United States has helped Vietnam to meddle in its internal affairs. As a result......

  • Emmitt 2022-12-26 22:34:37

    Is all of this really just because of this one...

  • Emory 2022-12-26 00:48:40

    ★★★★☆ The amazing thing is that although the movie is a very faithful reflection of the original book, it still lacks some thought-provoking details (such as the original wife's reply, visiting the mansion to find books, etc.), and even the tension in the original book. The exciting war plot is also unremarkable in the film. I'm usually quite tolerant of film adaptations, but this time I have to say the book is way too...

  • Summer 2022-12-12 14:29:47

    A love movie in the Vietnam War cloak, and expressed deliberately and...

  • Andreanne 2022-12-09 05:46:04

    British, French, Americans, Vietnamese, among which Vietnamese are divided into generals, sisters and sisters, guerrillas, and newspaper assistants. I feel that each character represents a force or group, and the political metaphor is...

  • Favian 2022-12-04 16:29:26

    The feel of the film is spot...

  • Erick 2022-12-04 10:30:07

    typical. The beautiful Vietnamese girl was passed around like a piece of fat between the former colonists and the new colonists in the face of the CIA. Son of a...

Extended Reading

The Quiet American quotes

  • Thomas Fowler: If I lost her, for me, it would be the beginning of death.

  • Hinh: Sooner or later, Mr. Fowler, one has to take sides, if one is to remain human.