#us-interventionism

#us-interventionism

Alden Pyle (Brendan Fraser) was a quiet American, says Thomas Fowler (Michael Caine) to a French policeman. A friend, he adds, as the lifeless corpse of Pyle stares back at him with a wretched expression. This is the scene that opens Phillip Noyce's Vietnam-set political drama before the film flashes back a few months earlier to 1952 Saigon, where Fowler, an ageing Englishman, lives leisurely as a journalist reporting on the first Indochina war.