VietNamNet Bridge - Hollywood heavyweight director Oliver Stone is set to return to Vietnam to make another film about the American war. The new film, Pinkville, will see the Oscar-winning director team up with actor Sean Penn for the first time since the two collaborated on U-Turn in 1997. Pinkville is about the infamous My Lai massacre in 1968, in which US soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians – at least 367, but possibly as many as 500 – including women, children and the elderly.
The news broke in the US in November of 1969, which led to widespread condemnation of the war in the US. Stone used a massacre for a pivotal scene in Platoon, but apparently feels there’s still more to say, specifically, about the event.
Pinkville will be Stone’s fourth film to directly deal with the Vietnam War (if you don’t count his student film, Last Year in Vietnam), following the loose trilogy of Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July and Heaven and Earth.
It should be a welcome return for the filmmaker, who is closely associated with Vietnam and the ‘60s in a way that directors Woody Allen and Scorsese would be associated with New York.
The subject matter can now be seen with a different relevance while both Penn, who starred in the Vietnam film Casualties of War, and Stone may also be interested in searching for parallels between the American war and the current US-led war in Iraq.
(Viet Nam Net) | 
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