<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Screening: Hearts and Minds (Mon., Nov. 5)</title></head><body> <div><font face="Geneva" size="+1" color="#000000">Progressive Film Series:<br> Critical Perspectives on Wars, Classes, & Empires<br> <br> Hearts and Minds</font></div> <div><font face="Geneva" size="+1" color="#000000">Dir. Peter Davis</font></div> <div><font face="Geneva" size="+1" color="#000000">Winner of the Academy Award for the Best Documentary in 1974</font><br> <font face="Geneva" size="+1" color="#000000"></font></div> <div><font face="Geneva" size="+1" color="#000000">* Why did Americans go to Vietnam?</font></div> <div><font face="Geneva" size="+1" color="#000000">* What did Americans do to Vietnam?</font></div> <div><font face="Geneva" size="+1" color="#000000">* And what did the war do to Americans?</font></div> <div><font face="Geneva" size="+1" color="#000000"><br></font></div> <div><font face="Geneva" size="+1" color="#000000">In Hearts and Minds, Peter Davis disentangles the political web of untruths that gradually locked the US into the logic of intervention.  Further, he examines the culture of brutality that racism spawned and modern warfare made acceptable.  A US officer gives a group of schoolchildren his impressions of Indochina: "The Vietnamese," he says, "are very backward, very primitive.  They make a mess of everything.  Without them, Vietnam would be a fine country."  A US bomber pilot nonchalantly explains: "When you're flying at 500 mph you don't have time to think about anything else.  You never saw people.  You didn't even hear the explosions.  No blood, no screams.  It was clean."  A "clean" war for bombers, generals, and politicians, however, devastates civilians and grunts of both sides - in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and anywhere elseŠ.</font></div> <div><font face="Geneva" size="+1" color="#000000"><br> Date: Monday, November 5<br> Time: 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.<br> Location: 264 MacQuigg Lab at the OSU<br> 105 West Woodruff Ave.</font></div> <div><font face="Geneva" size="+1" color="#000000">*  Sponsored by the Student International Forum.</font></div> <div><font face="Geneva" size="+1" color="#000000">*  Visit <www.osu.edu/map/linkbuildings/macquigglab.html> for an OSU campus map.<br> *  For more info, contact Yoshie Furuhashi at <furuhashi.1@osu.edu> or 614-668-6554; or Keith Kilty at <kilty.1@osu.edu> or 614-292-7181.</font></div> <div><font face="Geneva" size="+1" color="#000000">*  Check out the homepage of the SIF at <www.osu.edu/students/sif/>; and the calendar of anti-war events at <www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html>.</font></div> <div>-- <br> Yoshie<br> <br> * Calendar of Anti-War Events in Columbus: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html><br> * Anti-War Activist Resources: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/activist.html><br> * Anti-War Organizing in Columbus Covered by the Media: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/media.html></div> </body> </html>