[referring to a sequence in his
In the Year of the Pig (1968)] I know that a lot of people who fought in Vietnam are very angry with me
because in the sequence that had something to do with Search and
Destroy, there is a Marine Corps colonel, a young rather good-looking
man, standing there smiling, and the village is being burned and old
women are crawling away and there is an expression of a woman in fear
and terror and then you are back to that colonel. And people have said
to me, "Those images didn't really occur that way". My answer to that
is, it makes no difference if they really occurred that way, because
they did occur that way in a moral sense. But then I end up by saying,
"In fact, those images did happen in precisely that way". It is that we
were conditioned to believe that they could not happen that way, so
that we chose not to believe that those images happened in that way,
but indeed they did. [referring to a sequence in his 1968 film, In The
Year Of The Pig]
