Bullet in the Head
No Longer Playing
1990 131 min
In Chinese (Cantonese) with English subtitles
Introduced by Carson Wang - doctoral student in Screen Cultures at Northwestern University, Political Organizer w/ Asian American Midwest Progressives and Asian Americans Advancing Justice Chicago
“John Woo’s most uncomfortably violent film concerns three buddies on the lam who end up in war-torn Vietnam, where they meet a variety of violent circumstances that test their moral character and the bonds of brotherhood. An epic movie that has been compared, not inaptly, to The Deer Hunter, particularly for its harrowing scenes in a Vietcong internment camp.” – Fredric Dannen, Hong Kong Babylon: An Insider’s Guide to the Hollywood of the East
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