Loaded, this production deals with a controversial theme in a funny way and from a rare perspective.
The series The sympathizer It is based on the homonymous novel winner of the Pulitzer Award, by Viet Thanh Nguyen. It is available on the HBO, Max platform and has 7 episodes loaded with satire, irony, humor and the treatment of one of the most important war conflicts after World War II, especially for Vietnam and the United States.
Created by Park Chan-Wook and Don McKellar, he faces the conflict in the first person from the point of view of a Viet Cong soldier. But It is not one more soldier, but is an infiltrated agent. He is an undercover communist in the anti -communist army, an informant of the CIA, an educated Vietnamese in the United States and someone “birraction.” Asian for his mother and European for his father.
Max: What the sympathizer is about
From its perspective, the series is loaded with ironic components, such as the color of its eyes, which is denoted strongly atypical for the use of contact lenses than more than it seems European to give it a rather demonic air. This situation is carried out with the objective of accentuating its difference, someone who does not belong to the communities through which it travels.
This type of narration generates a duality effect, it is not simply the version of the story from the Vietnamese perspective, but the captain is an ironic narrator distanced from both positions. With a double face, not only sees the United States from the outside but also to the Vietnam Army, which far from being idealized, are shown as inept, corrupt and betrayal.
Max: El Sympathizer Trailer
Max: El Sympathizer cast
- Robert Downey JR (Claude / Professor Hammer / Ned Godwin / Niko Damianos / Priest)
- Hoa Xuande (the Captain)
- Toan le (the general)
- Fred Nguyen Khan (Bon)
- Vy le (wool)
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