Green Dragon | Patrick Swayze, Forest Whitaker | Lyrical, touching, tragic and funny

Green Dragon | Patrick Swayze, Forest Whitaker | Green Dragon - The Movie to See and Own

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Green Dragon

	Green Dragon Patrick Swayze, Forest Whitaker Sony Pictures, 2002 average customer review:based on 15 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Lyrical, touching, tragic and funny - A must-see

This is one of the most meaningful films I've seen in a while, probably because my partner is Vietnamese and this is a slice of his life. What's most interesting, though, is that I liked it a lot more than he did. What he found cloying and sappy, I found touching and sincere. He admits that this is a pretty accurate reflection of "how it was," though.

This is the same director that filmed "Three Seasons," and the difference between the two is in the star of the show. In "Three Seasons" the star is the breath-taking Vietnamese landscape - so beautiful! In "Green Dragon" the star(s) are the actors.

Patrick Swayze is sort of blah, clearly trying to branch into something un-hollywood. You won't recognize him. Much more interesting was Forest Whitaker, whom I've never liked, (never read as sincere). His part was believable and endearing. Breathtaking was Trung Hieu Nguyen as Minh. He steals the show. Every thought he has appears on his face. You should see this film for him alone.

Take Kleenex.

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Green Dragon - The Movie to See and Own

This Movie held my interest for the duration. It made me laugh, it made me cringe and jerked some tears. My wife is Vietnamese and I saw the tears rolling down her cheeks. A testimonial to the emotional intensity of this movie. I have seen many Movies of Vietnam, Scent of Green Papaya, Heaven and Earth and countless others, but I think that this one made a permanent home in my heart...

Authentic, real....happy and sad

The movie told the little understood story of the first Vietnamese to arrive here before the actual fall of Saigon. This film portrayed the fear, the anger, the confusion and the cultural angst in a real and accurate way. My Vietnamese adopted daughter loved the movie even tho she was only a small child at the end of the war and really knows nothing about it. A great movie and worth seeing and owning.

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2 THUMBS UP....ABSOLUTE MUST-SEE!!!!

As the first story ever told on big screen of the antecedent Vietnamese refugees to arrive in the U.S right before the official fall of Saigon, director and script writer, Timothy Linh Bui, depicts the utmost astonishing insights from these refugees' perspective of the aftermath of the Vietnam war: innumerable lives lost, both American and Vietnamese, and families' grievances; the refugees' uncertainty and fear of separation from each other in foreign land, of what the dim future could hold; the struggle with humility as even former doctors and lawyers need to adjust and start all over with lowly manual labor jobs; with hope and determination and family as the only remaining possessions they had to rebuild everything in this new, foreign land.....A movie with different insights that almost any generation or age group can relate to.

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Green Dragon, the first movie from Forest Whitaker's new production company, is one of the best wartime movies of the last couple of years. Perhaps a lot of that is due to the fact it stays far away from the war it takes places during (Vietnam). Instead, it takes you to the Camp Pendleton refugee camp set up after the United States pulled out of the war. It deals with the difficulty on both the side of the refugees and the Sergeant responsible for them (played by Patrick Swayze). The refugees want to get on with their lives, but they aren't quite sure how to do that. They know returning to their country would be a pointless deathtrap, but they are afraid of what life in America will be like for them. Introduces Trung Hieu Nguyen as the little boy Minh who develops a friendship with Forest Whitaker's doomed cook/artist Addie. If you are interested in the more emotional side of the effects of war and not just the explosions, put it on your "to rent" list. Final Grade: A-

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