Old Man Orange

Spencer and Dave are finishing off Oliver Stone's Vietnam War Trilogy of films. First it was Platoon where we saw the action from the American soldiers in Vietnam. Next, we watched Born on the Fourth of July all about the soldiers coming back to the USA and living in a changed world. Now, the third film from 1993, Heaven and Earth is all about what it was like from the Vietnam side of the war.The real-life story of Le Ly (Hiep Thi Le), a girl growing up in a peaceful for the moment Vietnamese village, farming rice and living life as a Buddhist. But then the French come and ravish the village before there is a calm before the war. Next, it's the Viet Cong and then the Americans to the point that she has been tortured and abused by all sides, and she and her mom leave towards the city of Saigon. Here she takes up whatever jobs she can to get by before she meets an American (Tommy Lee Jones), who is a little too determent to be with her and at first seems like the right caring person to get her out of Vi