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- Drama
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- 90sVietnam War
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- AsiaVietnamVillage
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Heaven and Earth, 1993
English, Vietnamese
France, USA
Profile of Heaven and Earth
Heaven and Earth can be described as bleak, gloomy, and contemplative. The plot revolves around interracial relations, society, and themes of mind and soul. The main genre is drama. In terms of style, Heaven and Earth is epic. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. Heaven and Earth is set, at least in part, in a village. It is located in Vietnam. It takes place during the Vietnam War and in the 1990s. Heaven and Earth is drawn from a biography, originally a true story, and based on a book. The movie has received attention for being a Golden Globe winner. Note that it involves sexual content, profanity, and violent content.
Summary of Heaven and Earth
In this final film of his Vietnam trilogy, Oliver Stone turns his cameras away from the experience of the American combatants to focus on the devastating effect of the war on the Vietnamese people. Starring Hiep Thi Le as Phung Le Ly, it recounts the epic journey of her life, which began in an idyllic village in Central Vietnam living as her people had lived for thousands of years. When the war broke out, she was plunged into a maelstom, trapped between the forces of North and South. Separated from her family, Le Ly was imprisoned by the South Vietnamese, who used an assortment of tactics on her, including electric shock treatment, and upon release from prison, she was raped by a vicious gang of Viet Cong. After escaping to Saigon, she becomes pregnant by an employer and is fired. She turns to prostitution to survive, until Steve Butler (Tommy Lee Jones), an American Special Forces officer, impulsively asks her to marry him and return to America with him. She agrees to marry him and moves with him to San Diego but finds that, after a life in the military, he has a more difficult time adapting to life in the U.S. than she does. Heaven and Earth is a profoundly moving saga of resiliency in the face of unspeakable suffering.
Details
| Language: | English, Vietnamese |
| Country: | France, USA |
| Release date: | 25 December 1993 |
| Runtime: | 140 min |
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as Mama
as Steve Butler
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