In war saga The Sympathizer, Vietnamese voices are no longer stuck in the background

An adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, HBO 's The Sympathizer follows a half-French, half-Vietnamese spy for the Viet Cong known as The Captain.

For decades, Vietnamese people often have been relegated to the background in popular cinematic depictions of the Vietnam War. Films like Full Metal Jacket and Apocalypse Now typically only examined the price the US and its soldiers paid. “During the shoot, I met several people really upset about how the Vietnamese-Americans portrayed in this series. And I totally understand that,” Phanxine said."I think what comes will come."Fred Nguyen Khan plays Bon, a South Vietnamese soldier whose character suffers a great loss. He was among several who filmed a harrowing re-enactment of the fall of Saigon. Khan, 41, acknowledged the show could be triggering for some of his relatives. But, that doesn't have to be a bad thing.

“It was like I got so much better. It’s like I went through this training montage from the Rocky movies,” Khan said. “I felt a really new appreciation the Vietnamese culture by being exposed around all these amazing Vietnamese actors. And that’s something that I never felt before, coming from Montreal, Quebec.”

Phanxine, who is a well-known filmmaker in Vietnam, has watched several Hollywood pictures like Apocalypse Now, Born On The Fourth Of July and, more recently, Da 5 Bloods. Some of them seemed “ridiculous” to him.

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