Hearts and Minds
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Heavy, kinetic, extreme vietnam / politics, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War depended upon the U.S. military winning the "hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese people. Filmmaker Peter Davis uses Johnson's phrase in an ironic context in this anti-war documentary, filmed and released while the Vietnam War was still under way, juxtaposing interviews with military figures like U.S. Army Chief of Staff William C. Westmoreland with shocking scenes of violence and brutality.
Our read · Hearts and Minds (1974) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded vietnam · politics · oscar entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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