Vi

I think this movie has good cinematography and very bad plot. I understand some metaphors, mostly about historical events. But 99.99% nude scenes are meaningless. Maybe the film won an Encounters Berlinale because of them.

Film is not worth watch. Waste of my time. The film is not true about Viet Nam at all. Watching the whole movies, I still don't know what is the message that the director wants to convey.

If you don't have any story, your metaphor is just a decoration on a souless body. This is an example of why most of DP shouldn't (and can't) write screenplay (Zack Snyder is the most typical example). So sad that this movie can destroy many of Vienamese viewer's faith on him.

However, I love the cinematography in this movie, not because it's excellent, just because most of Vietnamese market movies doesn't have cinematography at all. The sound design is good tho.

Acting was acceptable, considering they are not professional.

The only thing missing here is story, the biggest weakness of Vietnamese movies.

Easily misunderstood to be an inaccurate portrayal of Vietnam, and as a former traveler there, the point of the movie is despair and poverty, that happens to be in Vietnam.

I enjoyed the ritualistic humanity in survival mode. I loved the contrast of making hot air balloons but never riding in one; the juxtaposition of civilization against the backdrop of the untamed jungle; and, the deflation of the whole thing as life draws us down.

Beautifully depicted. Amazingly acted. The wildest form of us (in any language) Striking, provocative, and forced meditation on our base existence without the material color.

This movie is so terrible, and it is not true about Vietnamese. Also, "taste" describe Vietnamese as some kind like caveman. The song, the image are also trash.