Ken Burns Loves The Smell Of Napalm In The Morning: A Wonkette Documentareview!
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There's a man with a gun over there telling me I've got to beware. Of clichés. Now that Yr Wonkette has thrown a bunch of clichés at the topic, you'll actually be glad to know that in their new 10-part, 18-hour documentary The Vietnam War, Ken Burns and Lynn Novick mostly manage to avoid slipping into familiar tropes about that war America lost. So much of what we think about when we think of the war in Vietnam has become familiar through repetition that Burns and Novick are keen to grab us gently by the eyeballs and make us look at it with a fresh perspective -- yes, even the stuff we've seen before.
Ken Burns Loves The Smell Of Napalm In The Morning: A Wonkette Documentareview!
Ken Burns Loves The Smell Of Napalm In The…
Ken Burns Loves The Smell Of Napalm In The Morning: A Wonkette Documentareview!
There's a man with a gun over there telling me I've got to beware. Of clichés. Now that Yr Wonkette has thrown a bunch of clichés at the topic, you'll actually be glad to know that in their new 10-part, 18-hour documentary The Vietnam War, Ken Burns and Lynn Novick mostly manage to avoid slipping into familiar tropes about that war America lost. So much of what we think about when we think of the war in Vietnam has become familiar through repetition that Burns and Novick are keen to grab us gently by the eyeballs and make us look at it with a fresh perspective -- yes, even the stuff we've seen before.