The Hangover 2′s Vietnam Flashback

May 29, 2011

The Hangover 2′s Vietnam Flashback

“You can see the gun, you can see the expression on the man’s face as the bullet enters his head, and you see the soldier on the left who is wincing at the thing that has happened. With the still picture, you have time to consider all these factors.”

“The most offensive and gutsy joke in the movie is a Vietnam War visual reference that takes place over the closing credits.”

The Hangover 2 makes the underlying violence of the film’s anti-Asian racism explicit in its few final images. “Gutsy” is too polite a word for this.

*The above is screencapped from a cammed bootleg. If someone locates a clearer image, please pass it along, and I’ll update.

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