Hearts and Minds: The Experience of the War and Speechs.

Hearts and Minds (1974), directed by Peter Frank Davis (1937) has as its theme the Vietnam War. The work approaches of social institutions in the United States and Vietnam, interacting with government officials, religious leaders, and the public sectors in order to sketch the historical context that promoted the invasion of US troops in Southeast Asia. The film also discusses the historical background of the discourses that shape the American society and formed the national culture.
The instrumental sought in film criticism provided the observation of language features and aesthetics of which director Peter Davis put his hand in his filmic production to design a framework to recover the details of projection: scenarios, framing, sequence effects, use of soundtrack , etc; devices that are inserted in the documentary. It was also found that the film can be examined in thematic blocks that show the relationships addressed by interviews with panoramas described by the narrative construction. The research enabled the more accurate understanding of American and Vietnamese ethos, as there is a real construction given by narrators who guide the direction and way of life of every society, there is a clash ideologically and counterpoints being inserted in the development of movie. The culture of each nation presented by the discourses can be understood by the ethical issues that address the social representations and questions that may occur, in order to conduct expressed by the director and the treatment given by the interpretation of social reality.
The documentary shows the US belief in being able to control the fate of the world. The film shows a nation stuck in his "iron cage".