Hearts And Minds Film Analysis

Peter Davis's movie “Hearts and Minds” from The Criterion Collection was a deliberately organized documentary which openly depicted the US as an enemy to all people of the world. Davis asserted asserted footage of influential figures stating that “[ . . . ] we were the wrong side,” and, “All we've done is destroy their country and laid it to waste,” in reference to the United States military tactics against Vietnamese civilians. While there were recorded quotes that made the final cut for the film, which directly and exclusively bolstered the reputation of the United States, these pieces were few and far between as the audience was otherwise exposed to grieving and homeless old women who'd lost all they had to United States military bombers. Prior to portraying an apparent systematic destruction of harmless and vulnerable villagers, Davis inserted shots from a US propaganda film depicting that housing eviction was truly a threat to white women and families at home, should the menace of communism take ahold of the United States. War is a terrible thing, but Davis chose to make a contrast of a war scandal by interviewing and filming the
Davis makes choices such as keeping his camera focused on people who had described the devastation in their lives during the war for a moment of silence following their depictions. Davis also decides to wait before exposing the severe bodily damages to the United States veterans whom he interviews when it gets to the point in their stories where they discuss how ugly war is, how their pride as a military service member deflated as they collected experiences on the job, and how the people at home don't want to have to hear about what happened to