Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel

Time and Fortune Vietnam Newsreel is a four minute satire on the United States's involvement in the Viet Nam War. The film pretends tobe a Time-Fortune March of Time newsreel and mostly consists of shaky footage of Adolfas Mekas (the director's brother) pretending to be the prime minister of Lapland making statement to various members of the media. In his speech, he decries America's fiscal mismanagement of the war and has a modest proposal to make it for efficient and cheaper. There is also some found footage interspersed throughout the film, including some disturbing images from an abattoir that remind the viewer of the horrors of the war. Pretty much a one joke movie. I didn't find the joke particularly funny and thus found the film rather lacking overall.