The Sympathizer Season 1 Episode 1 Breakdown | Recap & Review
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- The Sympathizer Season 1 Episode 1 Breakdown. In-depth recap and review for The Sympathizer - S01E01 “Death Wish” with the ending explained. Please Subscribe 👉 ua-cam.com/users/petepeppers...
The Sympathizer is HBO's new series from co-showrunners Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar based on the novel of the same name by Viet Thanh Nguyen. The Captain (Hoa Xuande) is a Northern Spy working for a South Vietnamese General (Toan Le) at the end of the Vietnam War. Or the American War depending on who you ask, and this identity crisis and the Captain's double life set the stage for a show that is a spy thriller, a war story, an immigrant story, and a dark comedy.
In Episode 1, one of The Captain's contacts is brought in for questioning. The war is coming to an end and he learns he will have to accompany the General to the United States to keep an eye on him. Their CIA contact Claude (Robert Downey Jr.) arranges for a plane for evacuation. In the end, they make a harrowing escape as the airport is attacked by enemy fire.
S1.E1
Death Wish
Written By: Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar
Directed By: Park Chan-wook
With the fall of Saigon imminent, the Captain juggles the communist party, the South Vietnamese army, his CIA handler and his conscience.
Episode aired Apr 14, 2024
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I read both books. The Sympathizer & The Committed. Two of the greatest novels I have ever read.
The Fall of Saigon, as portrayed in the series, was completely true to the source material.
Having escaped from Vietnam at the age of 14 to come to America and a 30-year Navy vet having deployed to the Middle East- Iraq, Afghanistan, and Djibouti, this episode does strike a chord with me. There is no winning in war, it is just a degree of losing.
Not true. Plenty of people win in war, The weapons manufacturers, the politicians, the bankers, the corporations. You lie!
Cũng chả có chiến thắng nào sau 1975 ở Việt Nam, toàn đói nghèo và vượt biên.
Yes but the sad part is wars are still happening in other places. I guess we never learned a thing from previous wars
I never read the novel. I’m Vietnamese. The first episode was very emotional and nostalgic for me.
All Wars are Fought Twice, First on the Battlefield and Second in Memory,
That's one of the painful truths for the Vietnamese American Community and Vietnamese Overseas communities with underlying legacy
Tôi nghĩ chỉ bọn Bắc Kỳ và Việt Cộng nằm vùng như Nguyễn Cao Kỳ và con gái mới xúc động thôi.
Còn người Nam kỳ bọn tôi cười khinh
The first episode was good. Suprisingly captured the chaos of the Fall of Saigon pretty well. The ending did feel pretty abrupt.
Thank you for covering this, i am a HUGE fan of the novel and read it during lockdown and was ecstatic when i heard RDJ was pushing hard for it to be adapted, then incredible excited once the trailer dropped! now this, oh man lol. i became your fan during the GoT days and am glad to see the sympathizer bringing me back to it heh
Great job covering this! Thanks for covering it!
can't wait for the next episode!
ooooooo peteys doing the sympathizer! excellent. that first ep was suprising, and deeply weird, illuminating, and i'm intrigued. rdj makeup is distracting, but he's doing yeoman's work here tryign to pull it off. time will tell if he does. i'm in. *edit: it was very sad to realize during the last "blood brothers" talk between the two communists, what was left unsaid, but became crystal clear, is that no matter how much assistance "the captain" had been and was being to the cause, the cause would never accept him as a french/southern biracial outsider, and that's the main reason he wasn't being allowed to stay to enjoy the fruits of his spycraft.
War never changes.
Hoa XuanDo is an excellent actor. Keep doing good work. God bless 🙏
The first episode was really good!!! Im hooked!!
loved it, it's gonna be good
For those who wonder what happened to the people stayed behind here is the answer. After 1975, Southern Vietnamese who are affiliated with Republic Government or have families that affiliated the Republic Government, one : send to rehabilitation camp where people are treated like animal, two : new economy = send you to jungle/mountain without any resources to survive on your own ( escape = death penalty). And while you were gone, of course your property now belongs to the new government! What a living hell!
Almost everyone in vietnam get that kind of treatment not just the southerners, its like mandatory military draft, they do it for few years and get released.
People who get punished are mostly former military which make sense consider how brutal they are, e.g torturing and bomming and chemical warface , etc.
So, my southern vietnamese american friend, yes you are lucky to be an american citizen, but you have no right to jugde us true Vietnamese.
Gob bless.
@@nguyenkhanh7759 Nah, you're just a commie, plain and simple.
@@nguyenkhanh7759not almost everyone in VN got that kind of treatment. Only Northern VN got that kind of treatment from their communist leaders before 1975. My dad was in a labor camp for 11 yrs, not just a few years like you said it was not that bad. I grew up without a father for most of my childhood. Why? And million of kids grew up with their father just bc of HCM and his gangs decided to invade Saigon to take what not belong to them. Look at South and North Korea, don’t tell me the South Korea people want to live under Kim Jong so the country can be united. That’s a bunch of BS and lies that HCM was feeding his people
@@nguyenkhanh7759 hello người anh em lạc loài, I am young South Vietnamese, living in Vietnam. Can I identify myself as "true Vietnamese" :)). The re-education camp is actually a prison, many people di.e there because of sickness, lack of nutrition, kill by animal in forest and kill by communist too. Not only the soldier, university professor, author, musican, religion leader, politican, wealth people, anyone hate communist have to go there. They take their house and property, take their family member to "new economic zone" in the forest, just to detroy them. So you guys, north vietnamese have detroy South Vietnamese economic, culture, elite class
@@nguyenkhanh7759 hello my north vietnam brother. I am South Vietnamese, living in VN, Can I identify as "true vnese" :)). The re-education camp is actually a prison. Many people was died there because of sickness, lack of nutrition, ki^l.l by animal in the forest, and obviously k'i*l.l by communist. Not only the soldier, the university professor, authors, musican, religion leaders, politican, the wealthy people have to go there because the choose the other side. Communist take their house and property, bring their family member to "new economic zone" in the forest just to detroy them. So you guys, north vietnam communist have detroy South Vietnam economic, education, culture, elite class. I dont care what are you thinking, I just want to speak out for my people.
im a sucker for a period piece too!!
Having not seen this yet, it took me way longer than I care to admit that that wasn't James Caan...
For a second I thought it was Christopher Lloyd. lol
Looks like a mixture of James Caan and Ron Jeremy
Reminded me of Gene Hackman.
OK, I get that the Captain is really a North Vietnamese agent that works for the South Vietnamese General in episode 1.
But I'm confused as to Robert Downey Jr's role as the CIA agent. Why is he talking the Captain at all? How is he there?
Can anybody clue me in on this?
Thanks in advance!
Dong Son?
This sounds too depressing for me, given all the current wars. Humans are incapable of learning from history.
This war between the people in the same country was terrible, especially when it ended with the crual retaliation of the communists.
Tôi yêu chiến tranh!
@@cuuroichualanh6054 not a flex
4:00 Is this James Caan or Cooper Howard? 😁
wait until the next episode haha
😂
I thought that was RDJ!!!!!
yeah, it sounds like this was a story he wanted to get made. He's an executive producer as is his wife.
I can't wait for the rest of the show. I'm vietnamese American and I grew up in conservative but densely Vietnamese Orange County (disparagingly mentioned by the Captain multiple times in the book haha). And all my life, I was used to hearing about a certain view of the Vietnam war. And I grew up thinking that the Americans were trying to help us, and saved the viet people with their generosity, and that we should be thankful that we're in America.
As I got older, I read more and become more left leaning. As such, I began to deconstruct how I viewed the Vietnam war.
When I first read the Sympathizer, it was during my first time to Vietnam and it was CRAZY. The juxtaposition of hearing a battered and torn Saigon from both the book and my family, now it's a thriving city filled with young people who have no memory of the war. While many older Vietnamese Americans hold animosity still for North Vietnam, for the people living there, it's but a faint painful memory. It was a very humbling experience
A person is lucky enough to live in a free country in America, you just visit but have never experienced the lies and cruelty that the Vietnamese communists treated the people and especially the Vietnamese soldiers. In the South of the Republic, you should understand that visiting is very different from living with communism. If you have the courage, give up your American citizenship and return to live and work in the communist regime, then you will be able to live and work in the communist regime and then you can comment accurately !
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Im potus or vp my journey to become one is a lot more interesting than this
I really don’t understand this series
poorly made movie, the worst story of spy in war times, they ignored all the facts and details, they assume the audients are dumb and stupid!
Can you please make an effort to pronounce names correctly? While your pronunciation doesn’t have to be perfect, the names should be recognizable and this is an issue of respect.
Oh, please.
That is a nearly impossible task for someone who doesn't speak the language. When you can pronounce every name in every language correctly, then you can show us how it is done.
Come on let's be honest. the main character's acting. Sucks!..............When he speaks Vietnamese, can't understand very much of what he said, Sounds like he was mumbling. Robert Downey, great actor, but seems kind of lost on how he should act, his acting was a little over the top. I just wish they, would start making Vietnamese movies with actors, that can really speak the Vietnamese language . All that tonal, low mumbling really killed it for me. how do you enjoy a movie when you can't even hear what the characters are saying? I was excited for a real Vietnamese hollywood movie. I really want this to succeed, hope they can see this critique and improve. Park Chan wook, somebody needs to be honest to you, so you can tell what needs improvement.
this movie is sanctioned by the vietnamese government due to "reactionary" content (look at all those VNCH flags haha), no vietnamese actor with a Vietnamese passport was able to be hired for film production
Yes, I couldn't watch it for more than 20min. In VN, no-one talks like that in real life!
Downey's characters are meant to be shallow and exaggerated. They are not meant to be unique individuals. They're collectively the face of US/Western colonialism, as experienced/remembered by the Captain. Read up on a few of Director Park's interviews for a better understanding.
@@dasupertramp5855 I admit , I didn't read the novel or watch any interviews of director or actors. I wanted to watch this Show and soak in all it's splendor with an open mind. I do however have memories of Vietnam and my own perspective as a child. During the war, my father was an officer and we lived in Phan Thiet. Everytime he comes home , crowds of children would chase after his Jeep. Sometimes he would bring American soldiers to our home for visits. As a child in my little world, I was be wildered by the size and features of these Men. I grew to see them as family and friends.
As you said, RDJ character is shallow and exaggerated. My own personal experiences with Americans in Vietnam was different and meaningful. The Americans , I met, were unique individuals. And if they were ever to be depicted, I would like them be seen in a better light.
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The way they depicted the liberation of Ho Chi Minh City was so misleading, the liberation was very peaceful and the people welcomed the liberators with open arms? There are BBC news videos still available on UA-cam!
The communists are dictatorial to the people of the country, they forbid people from speaking differently to them, if you go against their will, the prison will imprison you, I am a victim who once shared on Facebook against their will, then They arrested me, interrogated me for 24 hours, then they fined me and invited me up many times.
Yes, I was peaceful like Russian "liberated" eastern Ukraine 😊
Wow, your choice of words alone tells me everything about you. No such video exists, and you know you have never seen one. The only people who believe that fluffy piece of propaganda you spouted are the Viet Cong, their descendents, and the allies of the CCP.
How dare you lie as if the Viet Cong didn't kill thousands of Saigon's residents. I feel sorry that you were so brainwashed.
there are a lot of documentaries and you can see how Saigon was chaotic right before the NVA entered the city. And Google is free bro.
You should have your eyes checked. And while your eyes being checked, you should consider having your brain also checked
From vn love this movie
Can you sub by Vietnamese?