Television: Adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel focuses on the Vietnamese caught in the Cold War clash between the United States and Soviet Union
lived his career much like he lived his colourful personal life. He veered all over the place, from Richard Attenborough-directed biopics to romcoms via an unlikely ongoing role in workplace dramedy Ally McBeal. Having finally left the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he’s carried on where he left off, swerving from the chilling Doctor Dolittle to the slightly less chilling Oppenheimer and now arriving at the midnight black comedy of post-Vietnam satire, The Sympathizer .
The adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel instead focuses on the Vietnamese caught in the Cold War clash of empires between the United States and the Soviet Union. It opens in a Marxist re-education prison following the fall of Saigon. Here, protagonist The Captain is forced to list his crimes – including the fact he now “thinks in English”.
Nationwide Celebrates 100 Years of O’Connell Street review: heart-warming local colour, with emphasis on the positives Enter Downey Jr as the Captain’s Gene Hackman-esque CIA mentor, Claude. He has great fun as a grizzly American abroad. But for the Oscar-winning actor, the good times are just beginning. Across the rest of the series, he plays every white American The Captain encounters when sent to spy in the US. Characters Downey Jr inhabits include an idiot academic and a Francis Ford Coppola-eque auteur, shooting a film clearly modelled on Apocalypse Now.
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