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(Credited cast) | Tiana Alexandra | ... | Herself (as Tiana Thi Thanh Nga) |
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Tiana was born in South Vietnam, but was raised in the United States after her family fled Vietnam to escape the Communist threat. After she made her way into Hollywoodk, she began to ask questions about her identity and her homeland, which lead eventually to her making a decision to visit Vietnam once again. This documentary follows her search.
When this documentary gets to Vietnam, it goes in some pretty surprising situations. Gone is the focus on her as slowly the country is revealed in all it's post-war glory, where old beliefs still ferment, where historical context is different from ours, and where every aspect of the war as resulted in a generation of people with vastly differing views of what occurred, all of them searching for the truth...
Too bad that's not really what the documentary is focusing on. I mean, it is... it just isn't. The documentary has some very appealing and shocking narrative mixed in with a largely structureless program. Tiana reveals more than she intended to, and I don't believe she actually expected to get what she ended up with. Therefore, the documentary is surprising and interesting, but it has very little actually sorted out.
The subjective nature then makes it rather appealing, and therefore it's very interesting to watch. However, it hasn't been fully explored, so don't expect any resolution.
--PolarisDiB