WE WERE SOLDIERS – MEL GIBSON – BRAND NEW BLU-RAY – SUBTITLES ENGLISH FOR HOH

This is an unusual Vietnam film in that it also shows the North Vietnamese perspective on the battle; their leader Lieutenant General Nguyen Huu An (Don Duong) is depicted as a brave soldier and smart commander. And in addition to the many gory battlefield sequences–which seem to have been influenced by SAVING PRIVATE RYAN–we also see how the carnage of war affects those left behind, the soldiers’ wives and children. Ultimately this is a moving anti-war film, which, by sticking close to the true stories of real soldiers, very effectively brings home the overwhelming horror of war.