Good Morning Vietnam Review
Director: Barry Levinson
Genre: Comedy/War
Codestar30 Rating: 7/10
When radio presenter, Adrian Cronauer (Robin Williams), is shipped from Crete to Vietnam, to be the new U.S. military radio presenter, he quickly gains popularity with the troops. However, he is controversial and his superiors think he plays inappropriate music and tells inappropriate jokes, and they quickly begin to try and get him off the air. When he's not working, he explores the local area, and submerses himself in the Vietnamese people and culture, and begins to see the war from a different perspective.
Robin Williams plays his usual kind of character, only this time with a little serious acting here and there. Each radio broadcast he makes in the film was completely improvised by him, and I really have to commend him for that, because he talks very quickly and yet doesn't falter, pause, ramble, or repeat himself. He keeps up a continuous babble of humour at an impressive rate.
This film is very thought provoking, even to someone like me with a fairly limited knowledge of the vietnam war. It really casts a light on the affect the Vietnam war had on the civilians of Vietnam and is obviously quite moving because of how Adrian interacts and integrates with the locals, despite the prejudices of the American soldiers, and is embraced as one of their own.
I'd think that this film would be more enjoyable to someone who lived during the time it was set. I didn't get understand many of the jokes and references because I wasn't alive at the time and am ignorant of a lot of the topics of the jokes. So I would definitely recommend this film to anyone who was alive during the Vietnam war, or anyone with a reasonable knowledge of the period. But even without complete understanding it is still completely impossible to enjoy this movie, as I found out, so you should definitely consider waking up to 'Good Morning Vietnam".
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