Opinion: 'Da 5 Bloods' has no easy answers. That’s why it’s the perfect movie for the moment.
Like so many of us right now, the Vietnam veterans of “Da 5 Bloods” are struggling with how to be good and how to do good — and especially with how to answer those questions without moral authorities to guide them.Lee sets his characters up for moral trouble from the get-go. The four surviving Bloods come to Vietnam in part on a noble mission to retrieve the remains of Norman , the one Blood who died in-country, and to return his body to his grieving sisters.
In search of the clarity the living Norman provided him, Paul talks to his friend’s ghost and embraces the gospel of selfishness preached by President Trump. Eddie is torn between keeping up the appearance that he is wealthy and a sense of obligation to fulfill Norman’s dream of donating the gold to black liberation organizations. Otis, who has a stable family life in the United States, learns that he has unmet obligations in Vietnam when he visits an old girlfriend, Tiên .
Some of the answers before us are obvious. We should wear masks to protect ourselves and others. Policing in America cannot be allowed to continue in its present course. We must demand that our elected officials dedicate themselves to reform.Other conundrums are more difficult.
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