Screening: Hearts and Minds (Mon., Nov. 5)

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

Progressive Film Series:
Critical Perspectives on Wars, Classes, & Empires

Hearts and Minds
Dir. Peter Davis
Winner of the Academy Award for the Best Documentary in 1974

* Why did Americans go to Vietnam?
* What did Americans do to Vietnam?
* And what did the war do to Americans?

In Hearts and Minds, Peter Davis disentangles the political web of
untruths that gradually locked the US into the logic of intervention.
Further, he examines the culture of brutality that racism spawned and
modern warfare made acceptable.  A US officer gives a group of
schoolchildren his impressions of Indochina: "The Vietnamese," he
says, "are very backward, very primitive.  They make a mess of
everything.  Without them, Vietnam would be a fine country."  A US
bomber pilot nonchalantly explains: "When you're flying at 500 mph
you don't have time to think about anything else.  You never saw
people.  You didn't even hear the explosions.  No blood, no screams.
It was clean."  A "clean" war for bombers, generals, and politicians,
however, devastates civilians and grunts of both sides - in Vietnam,
Afghanistan, and anywhere else?.

Date: Monday, November 5
Time: 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Location: 264 MacQuigg Lab at the OSU
105 West Woodruff Ave.
*  Sponsored by the Student International Forum.
*  Visit <www.osu.edu/map/linkbuildings/macquigglab.html> for an OSU
campus map.
*  For more info, contact Yoshie Furuhashi at <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>
or 614-668-6554; or Keith Kilty at <kilty.1@xxxxxxx> or 614-292-7181.
--
Yoshie

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