What are you helping us with?

Clifford 2022-03-25 09:01:07

I watched the movie "Good Morning Vietnam" last night, about the Vietnam War in 1965. In the end, the teenager asked: "My mother died and all my neighbors and friends died. What are you helping us?" This question was asked by the local people during the Russo-Japanese War and the Korean War. I don't know why.

When it comes to Vietnam, I think more of Duras's "The Lover", a French girl with a pink male hat on the Mekong River and a rich Chinese young master. War, colonization, lust, this land is as humid and complex as its climate.

The heroine's white Aodai is beautiful. Just like the morning sun in Vietnam, it is pure, gentle, fresh and beautiful. The beauty of war and suffering also shines.


The photo is their farewell scene, their only contact.

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Good Morning, Vietnam quotes

  • Edward Garlick: [to Cronauer as they arrive at Jimmy Wah's] We're here, sir... Jimmy Wah's.

    [they exit the Jeep and enter]

    Edward Garlick: This is the place where we like to hang out, sir.

    Adrian Cronauer: Real homey... in an opium kind of way.

    Edward Garlick: [as Jimmy spots them] That's Jimmy Wah. He owns the place.

    Jimmy Wah: Hi! Hi! Hi! Hi!

    [to Cronauer]

    Jimmy Wah: Now you say hi to me then you smile!

    [both smile and say hi weakly]

    Jimmy Wah: And you two Earl want a couple beer?

    Edward Garlick: We'd love a couple beers, Jimmy.

    [Jimmy waves them to a table]

    Adrian Cronauer: Why are our names Earl?

    Edward Garlick: He calls everybody Earl.

    Adrian Cronauer: [they sit down] Is it me, or is Jimmy light in the loafers?

    Edward Garlick: Let me put it to you this way. He's got this thing for Walter Brennan. He says he wants to buy naked photographs of the actor? For three years, he's been trying.

  • Jimmy Wah: [Jimmy brings Cronauer and Garlick their beers] There your beer!

    Edward Garlick: Thank you Jimmy.

    Jimmy Wah: [discreetly] Any movement on the Walter Brennan thing?

    Edward Garlick: No... and it doesn't look good, Jimmy.

    Jimmy Wah: He look good to me!