Incannerax
What a waste of my time!!!
Fairaher
The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
Hayleigh Joseph
This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.
winterchar
This is a very emotional movie and very well done. My husband and I watched movie this together years ago and he got up and walked out of the house during the movie. It was too much for him. He was a Vietnam Veteran. Recently, approximately 6 months ago, I started watching it again. It's been over 20 years. This December it will be 20 years ago that he took his life. Our children were 13 yrs, 11 yrs and 10 yrs at that time. They are now 32 yrs, 31 yrs and 29 yrs and doing well. I still miss him and feel so much guilt that I couldn't save him. He is buried in the state Veterans" Cemetery, and I know he would be proud of this. Thank you, Mr. Bill Coulturie, for this movie and giving me some kind of release. I need to cry and you have given me the outlet. Bless you, and thank you.Charlene winter
Matt_Layden
Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam is exactly what the title suggests. Even though the documentary sounds like it could get very tiresome very fast, Couturie has enough skill and passion for the subject to keep the audience interested in what these soldiers are writing back home to loved ones.I don't think a film like this can happen today because the media controls what we, the viewer, see and hear. Back then it was all broad casted for everyone to see. This is why the film works as well as it does, it doesn't try to hide anything, it shows us who these young soldiers are and what they feel about the war.For so long we politicians and citizens argue over the war and if they support it or not, this is the first time we hear it from the soldiers themselves. The sound track is powerful enough to set you back into the time era. We are listening to what these soldiers listened to; these songs were their way of getting out of the war and being back home with their family.Dear America shows us skillful editing and careful attention to detail, not only are all the song choices good, but they serve the scene well. With the skillful editing and song choice the viewer is thrown into this war themselves and they connect with each soldier there.The one complain I have would be having Hollywood actors read the letters. It took me out of the experience because I would recognize some of the voices, then I would realize that it's not this soldier reading it to his family, it's Robert De Niro or William Dafoe.This film is touching and real. You can see the passion are care that was put into making this film and you will leave with respect for the young people who lost their lives in the time of war.
walterhickoxhardwood
I have seen a lot of movies and such about Vietnam, This was by far the best. It was like being there again. I saw myself in the seen when Nixon name the 82nd ABN. Div. was going home. I missed going home with them by 17 days. Great Documenary. Walter Hickox B Trp. 1/17th Cav. 82nd ABN. Div. I was the only boy of 7 boys in my family to go to Nam. I have always recommended them seeing Dear America if they wanted to know how it really was. I am always moved when I watch this movie. It was so real. I met the writer at the Wall, many years ago. He knew how much his movie meant to this Vet. and I thank him again and again for bringing the real Nam home. Thanks, Walter
pooear
Dear America, is most certainly one of the really great war films, and this is because nearly everything is real, all footage and the letters read are real, the only things that aren't authentic are the actors voices, however these are some of Hollywoods finest so believing them to be the actual soldiers, mothers, nurses is easy.It is more a documentary then a film, but the presence of the actors gives it a cinemeatic feel.Accompanied by a great soundtrack (has there ever been a Vietnam movie with a bad one) this is one of the most moving and poignent movies you will see, it is through its realness that ones gets a feel of how bad war really is, it is probably one of very few war movies that really makes you fear war, because there is no adventurous sub plot, just some letters from young guys, most of whom just want out.The final letter really sums up the entire movie, and I would have to say this is one of the most moving pieces of film ? I have seen, this is then followed by Springsteens Born in the USA, which brings a fitting conclusion to the film
