Green Dragon

Timothy Linh Bui's follow-up to THREE SEASONS draws upon his own experiences as the child of South Vietnamese refugees for this flawed but worthy look at life in U.S. relocation camps. The film opens in April, 1975, with newsreel images of people scrambling to escape Saigon as North Vietnamese troops move ever closer. A child wakes in a darkened Quonset hut with the sounds of bomb blasts ringing in his ears. The bombs are only the remnants of a nightmare, but the sounds of the planes overhead are real: Minh Pham (Trung Nguyen) is no longer in Vietnam, but California's Camp Pendleton, one of four military bases across the U.S. converted into refugee centers for the es...