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"The Mills of the Gods: Viet Nam] provides a sobering, provocative, sad, and ultimately extremely poignant examination of the effects of the war on both the American serviceman and the Vietnamese peasants. Among images of napalm, bombs, and death, [Beryl] Fox intersperses moments of quotidian reality for the local residents, of working, shopping in the market, and so on. It is the juxtaposition of the graphic images of horrendous warfare with these everyday goings-on that lends the film its lasting poignancy."
-- Peter Urquhart

Source:
Aitken, Ian, ed. The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film. New York: Routledge, 2013. (s.v.'Mills of the Gods: Viet Nam, The')