This series really helped me to understand how weak western societies were becoming in the 1960s, ravaged by marxism and rampant liberalism. We get to see the tough, old-school men, willing to fight and die while doing their duty, and we get to see the cowards and the selfish nihilists who hide their cowardice and lack of moral integrity behind vapid anti-war slogans. Granted, the war was something Australia probably should have stayed out of. But the point is that the generation of young people in the 1960s already had a large percentage of weaklings and cowards who would have just as readily refused to defend their own country from invasion. Ability to fight and die is a good measure of a nation's strength. When it's absent, you have a serious problem. Liberal pipe dreams are just thinly veiled moral decay and degeneracy.
Going back to the series, my favourite bits are the ones from Vietnam itself, and they comprise roughly half the series. The other half follows several characters back home in Australia. The Vietnam scenes are well shot. There is no spectacular action, but there is a lot of suspense in the scenes, and they were a real treat for me to watch as a kid. I also remember actually caring for the characters, and trying to get inside the fictional world they inhabit. I guess we live in a time in which lack of patience and empathy prevents us from enjoying films the way we once could. I certainly feel I have lost much of that ability, and it is in part due to the fact that we are being served pure junk on TV. But it's more than that. We live in soulless times, wicked times. And we are becoming wicked, little by little.
I would recommend this series to everyone. It is one of those forgotten gems I hope a lot of people get to see. It is also Nicole Kidman's first role, if I remember correctly. I am not entirely sure about this, but even if it isn't, she is very young here.
Going back to the series, my favourite bits are the ones from Vietnam itself, and they comprise roughly half the series. The other half follows several characters back home in Australia. The Vietnam scenes are well shot. There is no spectacular action, but there is a lot of suspense in the scenes, and they were a real treat for me to watch as a kid. I also remember actually caring for the characters, and trying to get inside the fictional world they inhabit. I guess we live in a time in which lack of patience and empathy prevents us from enjoying films the way we once could. I certainly feel I have lost much of that ability, and it is in part due to the fact that we are being served pure junk on TV. But it's more than that. We live in soulless times, wicked times. And we are becoming wicked, little by little.
I would recommend this series to everyone. It is one of those forgotten gems I hope a lot of people get to see. It is also Nicole Kidman's first role, if I remember correctly. I am not entirely sure about this, but even if it isn't, she is very young here.