In the year of the pig was a very interesting documentary. It wanted to show the events leading up to when the Americans got involved in the Vietnam war. This was a very controversial issue, for many people were against our involvement in Vietnam. The documentary was synchronous and nonsynchronous. At many times they showed an image and then had a person talking about those said images. At one point in time they just ran footage of the leaders in Vietnam, Diem and Madam Nu, and merely let the images speak for themselves. They ran footage of them in interviews, and addressing the nation and let people gather their own opinions. The footage was mostly displayed them in a negative light. For the one clip of the Madam was her addressing the nation and sounding very self absorbed, and quite mean. She sounded as if she put herself above all others. The documentary seemed to show a stereotype of how Americans think of Asian women, and the Asian race. The narration was against voice of God, and most of the time had clips running with people talking in them.
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