From ""Journey from the Fall" Director Ham Tran:
"How long will we allow Hollywood to tell their versions about the Vietnam war, where Vietnamese people are faceless, nameless background objects instead of three-dimensional living, breathing people whose lives are directly torn by war? In the last 30 years, the world has never known about the millions of Vietnamese who were imprisoned and tortured in "re-education camps," or the millions of other Vietnamese who fled Vietnam by boat, suffering drought, starvation, rape and pillaging by pirates. No American film has ever been made about these struggles and sacrifices, so the question is "Why not?"Most young American, especially the younger generation (born between 80s up to now), have NO idea how the Vietnamese got here. Somehow, they happened to be here for no apparent reason!!! It's a sad history.
One of the things I do at my church is tell the kids how their parents got here because the parents don't talk about it. The first American-born generation knows they have family in Viet Nam. Their children are even hazy about that. The ones who know where they come from cope better with the snares of being modern American teenagers.
I checked out the link for Journey from the Fall. Now I must get a DVD or something. Such a movie will never be shown in my part of the country. I emailed the contact address.
Thank you for mentioning the film. It shall be, for me, a must see. When it is available on DVD, I shall use it in my class.