- Format: NTSC
- Number of discs: 1
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- Studio: Alliance Films
- Release Date: July 29 2003
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00009N82B
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #723 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
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The Quiet American proves that elegant and intelligent filmmaking can be emotionally powerful. Michael Caine plays Thomas Fowler, a British journalist in 1950s Vietnam with a lovely Vietnamese mistress named Phuong (Do Thi Hai Yen) and a jaded view of the political strife teeming around him. He befriends a seemingly innocuous American named Alden Pyle (Brendan Fraser), who falls in love with Phuong--and slowly, Pyle's real purpose in Vietnam becomes revealed. Fowler finds that, to hold on to the carefully balanced life he's created for himself, he must make choices he's long avoided. Caine and Fraser are both superb and give a human face to complicated politics; as a result, The Quiet American manages to be compelling as both history and a story about very specific people embroiled in a very personal conflict. An impressive film from director Philip Noyce (Rabbit-Proof Fence, Patriot Games). --Bret Fetzer
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A movie about the many layers of concerns we have as humans.,
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This review is from: The Quiet American (DVD)
Although I shall never understand just why the Vietnamese woman is such a catch, she is a culturally accurate portrait, being timid and unassertive in ways that women from that part of the world are more likely to be, especially in this time period of the 1950s. What I especially liked about this film was the varied perceptions that each character brought to the table. Although I wish some of these perceptions had been more subtlely and precisely explored, this was still done in a thought-provoking way. Some will wonder what I am writing about. Well, I do not wish to give the plot away, but suffice it to say it is inherently tied to the political events in Vietnam before and after the story, for which an understanding is useful to fully grasp the impact of its message. On a smaller, though no less significant scale to the characters, is the love Michael Caine feels for this Vietnamese woman. The two themes are interwoven to create motivations among the characters in an interesting and realistic way.
2 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Michael Caine and absolutely nothing else,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Quiet American (DVD)
This film has one thing going for it, and absolutely nothing else. It features a brilliant performance by Michael Caine, which is truly something to behold. Otherwise, it manages the rare trifecta of incompetent screenwriting, directing and editing, and is a thorough mess of a film that is a patheticly preachy inferior knock-off of "The Year Of Living Dangerously", devoid of the story, acting, coherence of any kind, etc.In short, rent it if you are curious about Caine's performance. Do not buy it unless you are desperately looking for something to hit yourself in the forehead with and yell "D'oh!".
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3.0 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews)
4.0 out of 5 stars
A movie about the many layers of concerns we have as humans.,
By Iqbal Faizer "Muldfeld" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Quiet American (DVD)
Although I shall never understand just why the Vietnamese woman is such a catch, she is a culturally accurate portrait, being timid and unassertive in ways that women from that part of the world are more likely to be, especially in this time period of the 1950s. What I especially liked about this film was the varied perceptions that each character brought to the table. Although I wish some of these perceptions had been more subtlely and precisely explored, this was still done in a thought-provoking way. Some will wonder what I am writing about. Well, I do not wish to give the plot away, but suffice it to say it is inherently tied to the political events in Vietnam before and after the story, for which an understanding is useful to fully grasp the impact of its message. On a smaller, though no less significant scale to the characters, is the love Michael Caine feels for this Vietnamese woman. The two themes are interwoven to create motivations among the characters in an interesting and realistic way.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Michael Caine and absolutely nothing else,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Quiet American (DVD)
This film has one thing going for it, and absolutely nothing else. It features a brilliant performance by Michael Caine, which is truly something to behold. Otherwise, it manages the rare trifecta of incompetent screenwriting, directing and editing, and is a thorough mess of a film that is a patheticly preachy inferior knock-off of "The Year Of Living Dangerously", devoid of the story, acting, coherence of any kind, etc.In short, rent it if you are curious about Caine's performance. Do not buy it unless you are desperately looking for something to hit yourself in the forehead with and yell "D'oh!". |
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