scariest person in the film..
of all the real-life monsters depicted in this film, the one who scared me the most was the scientist, a vietnamese lady who developed the cave-busting bomb.the film goes into her background as a vietnamese refugee.i saw her on a program on the History Channel about her bomb & i don't remember if it was in this movie or that program but she basically is blindly loyal to the US government.the governments enemy is her enemy.she is very arrogant in only the way that someone who was rescued, sheltered and nurtured and,ultimately,BLINDED by the government can be.makes me wonder what other projects with nefarious goals the government may have her on, this combination Mengele/Von Braun very matter-of-factly states she has no qualms about developing WMD for the gov.now, i work in and live near a very large vietnamese population for many years & i couldn't help but see the irony in the vietnamese:they support the anti-illegal immigrant positions because they dislike the hispanic population when most of them left vietnam with only the clothes on their back, the government gave them homes, business start up grants, money for each child & the kids got free college education, all for refusing to fight for their land.this woman is a product of this artificially, privileged position in society & seems to genuinely beleive she is better than other kinds of people.the vietname-community places a HUGE value on vietnamese life, its a shame they don't seem to have as much respect for non-vietnamese & non-caucasian life..
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