Subtle Communist propaganda

While not blatant, the subtle pro-Communist stance can be seen throughout the movie. (POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD). Christina visited the totalitarian police state horror story that was Vietnam in 1989 but the movie managed to make the Communist government look like the good guys there. Not even a slight hint of the oppression there was mentioned. Yet when they showed her young and watching the news on TV about the war you could hear the newscaster spin the biased line about South Vietnam and the U.S. killing the people "they're supposed to be helping." Then images of intense U.S. bombings are shown without any context of the aggressive enemy that we were fighting or the defensive nature of the war itself. It gave the overall impression that we were just there to destroy and wreak havoc.

The scene of the Vietnamese Communist police chief telling Christina that he couldn't go after David for molestation because of a lack of evidence was absolutely laughable. They ROUTINELY killed, tortured and imprisoned people with zero evidence or for the "crime" of making the slightest criticism of the Communist state. In the autobiography The Vietnamese Gulag the author tells of spending two years in a hellish prison simply because he had the same name as someone they were after! Then when David finally is arrested it portrays the Communist government there as warriors for justice.

It should be noted too that the Communist government of Vietnam and their censorship department gave a hearty seal of approval to the movie and allowed the film crew free access to the country for filming. That speaks volumes about which side of the spectrum the movie is on.