Good+Morning+Vietnam+Movie+Review

Set in 1965 Saigon, the army hires Adrian Cronauer for the early A.M radio show. He is wild and seldom follows rules of the military. High-ranked men in the army do not approve of his type of jokes and speeches on the radio. Adrian falls for a girl and does everything and anything to get her. He befriends her brother and finally gets a date with her, hilariously her family joins because of culture. Along the way he breaks many rules and regulations and is scolded by the higher ranking officers. He is yelled a even more after a bomb explodes at a GI bar and Adrian has trouble dealing with it, because he was very nearby. He reports the news about the bombing, which he was not supposed to and is suspended from his position. At this point he finds out the girl and himself in a relationship is not going to work out so his life is on a downward spiral. He is reinstated but chooses not to go back, until an encounter with some American soldiers that raise his spirits because they love him and they are risking tree lives to protect there country. He later is on a mission and takes a route that is under Vietnamese control and he is hurt but is successful in finding a way out with his Vietnamese friend. After an American plan rescues them they military intelligence is able to find out that the boy he is friends with is a terrorist trying to hurt him. He is transferred to a different location after the incident between him and the boy.

The Vietnamese were trying to be an independent nation and the French was the colonial power of Vietnam. The French lost a significant battle in the battle of dein-bien-fu against the Vietnam they were no longer the colonial power. The french moved to South-Vietnam while the VC took over the north. To stop the spread of communism the United States got involved and worked with the South-Viatnamese to stop the spread of communism and the VC rule. The movie is in 1965 South-Vietnam and the U.S is stationed there to stop the spread of communism. As a personal footnote both of my grandfather's were in WWII and one of them was stationed in Hanoi in 1946 on his return from India to the United States.

I liked the movie very much because it was funny and serious at the same time. It was never boring throughout the movie due to the mixture of comedy and drama. The beginning started out great because Adrian was so funny and he never followed any rules. In the middle, he felt the consequences for not following the rules and was punished accordingly. When Adrian and Lt. Garlic went on the mission and were bombed that had a really intense moment. The part in the movie that I thought was the most dramatic was the moment in which the military found out that the boy Adrian was friends with was a terrorist for the V.C. and then Adrian confronts him. The ending I thought could have been better because they didn't really give a story to where he was going and it wasn't as dramatic as I thought it should have been.