Free Country Gadfly

As a famous film director, Oliver Stone grew from the movie circle of world in 1980s. He can be rated as an alternative person in the film realm of the United States and the world. The personal experience has become the root urging him to carry on taking the movie constantly. The influence of Europe film idea and anti-cultural spirit of the west in 1960s have given his films strong political judgment.Oliver Stone's grandiloquent personalization pursues in the film principle and technique gave him the title of "master of style film". The western culture in the 1960s has given his films a special style, which made his films become the footnotes of the modern history in the United States. And his natural endowments in the aspects of handling the political and war films have engraved the clear marking of "political film" and "war film" director for him, and he has established the topic of true record and alternative expression gradually.But regardless his attitude anti-war is how sincere and firm, in spite of his judgment is how vigorous and sharp, he is always a member of American essential culture. The post-colonial environment and individual experience make it impossible for Oliver Stone to escape from a reality, as an American, his films show inevitably a strong hegemony consciousness. So even for Oliver Stone, a director of critical realism, Vietnam is only a country in an American's own eyes. Therefore, in Oliver Stone's trilogy about the Vietnam War, Vietnam presents inevitably some untrue traces of and the characteristics of "mirage".