{"id":787,"date":"2003-08-23T22:18:25","date_gmt":"2003-08-23T22:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-787.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:18","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:18","slug":"the-quiet-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2003\/08\/23\/the-quiet-american\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>The Quiet American<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Caine plays Thomas Fowler, an English newspaper reporter in Vietnam in the early 1950s.  Brendan Fraser is Alden Pyle, the &#8220;quiet American&#8221; of the title.  He is a medical aid worker who befriends Fowler, and then falls in love with Fowler&#8217;s young Vietnamese mistress.  It&#8217;s unquestionably a beautiful film, with understated yet powerful performances from both Caine and Fraser, but it lays on the allegory too thickly.  The three main characters play out a love story that substitutes for the recent history of Vietnam itself.  The love triangle breaks apart (as it must), but just as Vietnam&#8217;s history didn&#8217;t end in the 1970s, the lives of those involved in the love story don&#8217;t wrap up neatly, either.  The lack of resolution has meaning, but it also left me feeling less than completely satisfied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Caine plays Thomas Fowler, an English newspaper reporter in Vietnam in the early 1950s. Brendan Fraser is Alden Pyle, the &#8220;quiet American&#8221; of the title. He is a medical aid worker who befriends Fowler, and then falls in love with Fowler&#8217;s young Vietnamese mistress. It&#8217;s unquestionably a beautiful film, with understated yet powerful performances [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_35_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}