V.I.P. / Vietnamese Important People

This is a documentary that fails in its basic purpose, which is to show the young Vietnamese generation in a positive light as those who have surpassed the traditional perception of Vietnamese as traders or cheap labor and have become an educated and successful social group. The problem is that it is overly desired, staged, and pretentious. Shots of golf clubs, fashionable clothing, modern household equipment, and especially the dialogue, which at times exceeds the boundaries of caricature, arouse feelings of disgust or ironic distance in the general population. If this were to appear on a social network like YouTube, it would receive a lot of poisonous comments about snobbery. Overall impression: 25%. (05/31/2014)