re: The Vietnam War (Ken Burns)

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And you can't passively watch because most of the [EXPLETIVE DELETED] interviews have to be subtitled.

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Very smart I thought. I hate when actors or translators take over. They always ham it up. These are Vietnamese men. And old school. To hear their voices waiver is powerful even in Vietnamese. The blonde headed wildly gay Old dude who was an NVA saying how he and his mother who had no idea for 6 years if he was alive or dead “cried but weren’t a spectacle” (something like that). Every guy in their building who went died except him. So they could not celebrate. An actor or translator would have fricked that up.