This is a pretty good documentary as the layers unravel in a very nice and subtle way. It's truly a heartbreaking story on many levels. Using the Universe as my analogy pertaining to this documentary, one would see the Vietnam War in that moment as the Universe, how it destroyed many lives on multiple levels.
Then one could see the country of Laos as an individual human being and how Laos suffered on multiple levels from the war. Then one can look at Thavi's family as a single atom, and see how they suffered immensely from the war. Then one could travel within that single atom and see the affects of how the kids grew up, the pain that the mother and family goes through learning their father remarried someone else as he now has a new family, etc.
Which learning about the father remarrying almost breaks the viewers heart more than anything. I'm so interested though in how Thavi arrived at where he became to be, which is a bright filmmaker. One could look at Thavi and think he really doesn't look like much, but indeed he does amount to very much! I would love to see another documentary on how Thavi's family supported themselves, how they got money to live and who they got the money from?
How Thavi got into filmmaking and where he acquired such good video camera's from? How he learned so much because there's a big gap there, which is fine, you can't put this documentary in a vacuum, which I understand they needed to just get down to brass tacks of what they were talking about, but I would love to see another documentary on all this other stuff.
Then one could see the country of Laos as an individual human being and how Laos suffered on multiple levels from the war. Then one can look at Thavi's family as a single atom, and see how they suffered immensely from the war. Then one could travel within that single atom and see the affects of how the kids grew up, the pain that the mother and family goes through learning their father remarried someone else as he now has a new family, etc.
Which learning about the father remarrying almost breaks the viewers heart more than anything. I'm so interested though in how Thavi arrived at where he became to be, which is a bright filmmaker. One could look at Thavi and think he really doesn't look like much, but indeed he does amount to very much! I would love to see another documentary on how Thavi's family supported themselves, how they got money to live and who they got the money from?
How Thavi got into filmmaking and where he acquired such good video camera's from? How he learned so much because there's a big gap there, which is fine, you can't put this documentary in a vacuum, which I understand they needed to just get down to brass tacks of what they were talking about, but I would love to see another documentary on all this other stuff.