Agent Orange synopsis

 Agent Orange 

deluded Viet Kong soldier learns the consequences of the brutal herbicide Agent Orange. 

 

Synopsis 

Nguyen, a moral pacifist Vietnamese farmer is violently forced away from his wife in 1957 by a Vietnamese officer, two years after the war started and conditioned into a polluted mindset to fight off the opposing US threat. Nguyen first clashing with his new regiment, Nguyen eventually makes friends with two soldiers, one patriotic and brave whose name is Le, the other who was also taken away from his family, Hoang who is naïve and impressionable 

As they train together the group progress physically and mentally and grow a hatred towards this new western threat. Le soon becomes the one to look up to and soon becomes promoted, making him officially in charge off the squad which includes Nguyen and Hoang, and a few more soldiers after he shows unquestioning loyalty on the field to his superior officer, the very same officer that took Nguyen form his home who he despises. Nguyen witnesses, horrors and atrocities, the US are committing to his country and people and happily obliges, when ordered to set brutal traps up to immobilize enemy forces.  

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