The Sympathizer Season 1 Episode 1 Breakdown

The Sympathizer Season 1 Episode 1 Breakdown | Recap & Review

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The Sympathizer Season 1 Episode 1 Breakdown. In-depth recap and review for The Sympathizer - S01E01 “Death Wish” with the ending explained. Please Subscribe 👉 kzfaq.info...
The Sympathizer is HBO's new series from co-showrunners Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar based on the novel of the same name by Viet Thanh Nguyen. The Captain (Hoa Xuande) is a Northern Spy working for a South Vietnamese General (Toan Le) at the end of the Vietnam War. Or the American War depending on who you ask, and this identity crisis and the Captain's double life set the stage for a show that is a spy thriller, a war story, an immigrant story, and a dark comedy.
In Episode 1, one of The Captain's contacts is brought in for questioning. The war is coming to an end and he learns he will have to accompany the General to the United States to keep an eye on him. Their CIA contact Claude (Robert Downey Jr.) arranges for a plane for evacuation. In the end, they make a harrowing escape as the airport is attacked by enemy fire.
S1.E1
Death Wish
Written By: Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar
Directed By: Park Chan-wook
With the fall of Saigon imminent, the Captain juggles the communist party, the South Vietnamese army, his CIA handler and his conscience.
Episode aired Apr 14, 2024
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@alvadagansta Ай бұрын

I never read the novel. I’m Vietnamese. The first episode was very emotional and nostalgic for me.

@pudanielson1 Ай бұрын

All Wars are Fought Twice, First on the Battlefield and Second in Memory, That's one of the painful truths for the Vietnamese American Community and Vietnamese Overseas communities with underlying legacy

@cuuroichualanh6054 Ай бұрын

Tôi nghĩ chỉ bọn Bắc Kỳ và Việt Cộng nằm vùng như Nguyễn Cao Kỳ và con gái mới xúc động thôi. Còn người Nam kỳ bọn tôi cười khinh

@ORH_Engineering Ай бұрын

Having escaped from Vietnam at the age of 14 to come to America and a 30-year Navy vet having deployed to the Middle East- Iraq, Afghanistan, and Djibouti, this episode does strike a chord with me. There is no winning in war, it is just a degree of losing.

@jool7793 Ай бұрын

Not true. Plenty of people win in war, The weapons manufacturers, the politicians, the bankers, the corporations. You lie!

@cuuroichualanh6054 Ай бұрын

Cũng chả có chiến thắng nào sau 1975 ở Việt Nam, toàn đói nghèo và vượt biên.

@daclachoang368 Ай бұрын

Yes but the sad part is wars are still happening in other places. I guess we never learned a thing from previous wars

@Jamietheroadrunner 11 күн бұрын

Damn. Be proud because you’ve LIVED. And far more than most of us.

@smittyjjensin558 Ай бұрын

The first episode was good. Suprisingly captured the chaos of the Fall of Saigon pretty well. The ending did feel pretty abrupt.

@Dominicn123 Ай бұрын

Thank you for covering this, i am a HUGE fan of the novel and read it during lockdown and was ecstatic when i heard RDJ was pushing hard for it to be adapted, then incredible excited once the trailer dropped! now this, oh man lol. i became your fan during the GoT days and am glad to see the sympathizer bringing me back to it heh

@EpicTeamAi Ай бұрын

Great job covering this! Thanks for covering it!

@ThanhTran-hx1ie 24 күн бұрын

Some of the scenes , the decorations in this movie were not true ( the theater in Saigon a few months before the fall of Saigon ) , uniforms of South VN militaries were also not correct in the war time ( main role and supportings roles ) . We did not wear uniform ( yellow or sand colors ) of a military 's parade like 11/01 and 6/19 in this movie for these nation days before 1975 .

@rosetran1082 Ай бұрын

can't wait for the next episode!

@universalcollective427 Ай бұрын

ooooooo peteys doing the sympathizer! excellent. that first ep was suprising, and deeply weird, illuminating, and i'm intrigued. rdj makeup is distracting, but he's doing yeoman's work here tryign to pull it off. time will tell if he does. i'm in. *edit: it was very sad to realize during the last "blood brothers" talk between the two communists, what was left unsaid, but became crystal clear, is that no matter how much assistance "the captain" had been and was being to the cause, the cause would never accept him as a french/southern biracial outsider, and that's the main reason he wasn't being allowed to stay to enjoy the fruits of his spycraft.

@bachaitran4181 Ай бұрын

Hoa XuanDo is an excellent actor. Keep doing good work. God bless 🙏

@tritran5095 Ай бұрын

For those who wonder what happened to the people stayed behind here is the answer. After 1975, Southern Vietnamese who are affiliated with Republic Government or have families that affiliated the Republic Government, one : send to rehabilitation camp where people are treated like animal, two : new economy = send you to jungle/mountain without any resources to survive on your own ( escape = death penalty). And while you were gone, of course your property now belongs to the new government! What a living hell!

@nguyenkhanh7759 Ай бұрын

Almost everyone in vietnam get that kind of treatment not just the southerners, its like mandatory military draft, they do it for few years and get released. People who get punished are mostly former military which make sense consider how brutal they are, e.g torturing and bomming and chemical warface , etc. So, my southern vietnamese american friend, yes you are lucky to be an american citizen, but you have no right to jugde us true Vietnamese. Gob bless.

@KP-xi4bj Ай бұрын

@@nguyenkhanh7759 Nah, you're just a commie, plain and simple.

@JENNY.V Ай бұрын

@@nguyenkhanh7759not almost everyone in VN got that kind of treatment. Only Northern VN got that kind of treatment from their communist leaders before 1975. My dad was in a labor camp for 11 yrs, not just a few years like you said it was not that bad. I grew up without a father for most of my childhood. Why? And million of kids grew up with their father just bc of HCM and his gangs decided to invade Saigon to take what not belong to them. Look at South and North Korea, don’t tell me the South Korea people want to live under Kim Jong so the country can be united. That’s a bunch of BS and lies that HCM was feeding his people

@JimmyVo-nr2sv Ай бұрын

@@nguyenkhanh7759 hello người anh em lạc loài, I am young South Vietnamese, living in Vietnam. Can I identify myself as "true Vietnamese" :)). The re-education camp is actually a prison, many people di.e there because of sickness, lack of nutrition, kill by animal in forest and kill by communist too. Not only the soldier, university professor, author, musican, religion leader, politican, wealth people, anyone hate communist have to go there. They take their house and property, take their family member to "new economic zone" in the forest, just to detroy them. So you guys, north vietnamese have detroy South Vietnamese economic, culture, elite class

@JimmyVo-nr2sv Ай бұрын

@@nguyenkhanh7759 hello my north vietnam brother. I am South Vietnamese, living in VN, Can I identify as "true vnese" :)). The re-education camp is actually a prison. Many people was died there because of sickness, lack of nutrition, ki^l.l by animal in the forest, and obviously k'i*l.l by communist. Not only the soldier, the university professor, authors, musican, religion leaders, politican, the wealthy people have to go there because the choose the other side. Communist take their house and property, bring their family member to "new economic zone" in the forest just to detroy them. So you guys, north vietnam communist have detroy South Vietnam economic, education, culture, elite class. I dont care what are you thinking, I just want to speak out for my people.

@richierugs6544 Ай бұрын

loved it, it's gonna be good

@acerock013 Ай бұрын

War never changes.

@brk1705 Ай бұрын

The first episode was really good!!! Im hooked!!

@alexandervandergriend7098 Ай бұрын

im a sucker for a period piece too!!

@midniteoyl8913 Ай бұрын

Having not seen this yet, it took me way longer than I care to admit that that wasn't James Caan...

@davidlericain Ай бұрын

For a second I thought it was Christopher Lloyd. lol

@jool7793 Ай бұрын

Looks like a mixture of James Caan and Ron Jeremy

@Metallic-Sun Ай бұрын

Reminded me of Gene Hackman.

@digitalvictory8266 Ай бұрын

OK, I get that the Captain is really a North Vietnamese agent that works for the South Vietnamese General in episode 1. But I'm confused as to Robert Downey Jr's role as the CIA agent. Why is he talking the Captain at all? How is he there? Can anybody clue me in on this? Thanks in advance!

@lysanderthemagician6413 15 күн бұрын

I haven’t finished the series but I read the book. RDJ plays the captain’s American mentor, who teaches him interrogation techniques and American culture. The south was allied with the Americans and many of them (military, CIA) were in the country before the war started.

@attabooii Ай бұрын

I can't wait for the rest of the show. I'm vietnamese American and I grew up in conservative but densely Vietnamese Orange County (disparagingly mentioned by the Captain multiple times in the book haha). And all my life, I was used to hearing about a certain view of the Vietnam war. And I grew up thinking that the Americans were trying to help us, and saved the viet people with their generosity, and that we should be thankful that we're in America. As I got older, I read more and become more left leaning. As such, I began to deconstruct how I viewed the Vietnam war. When I first read the Sympathizer, it was during my first time to Vietnam and it was CRAZY. The juxtaposition of hearing a battered and torn Saigon from both the book and my family, now it's a thriving city filled with young people who have no memory of the war. While many older Vietnamese Americans hold animosity still for North Vietnam, for the people living there, it's but a faint painful memory. It was a very humbling experience

@ducnierhaus6978 Ай бұрын

A person is lucky enough to live in a free country in America, you just visit but have never experienced the lies and cruelty that the Vietnamese communists treated the people and especially the Vietnamese soldiers. In the South of the Republic, you should understand that visiting is very different from living with communism. If you have the courage, give up your American citizenship and return to live and work in the communist regime, then you will be able to live and work in the communist regime and then you can comment accurately !

@trungnguyen-hv4ji 26 күн бұрын

@@ducnierhaus6978 BRAVO🤝👏

@ducnierhaus6978 26 күн бұрын

@@trungnguyen-hv4ji , thank you 🤝

@cudendo Ай бұрын

Dong Son?

@alexandrasandu3947 Ай бұрын

4:00 Is this James Caan or Cooper Howard? 😁

@PetePeppers1 Ай бұрын

wait until the next episode haha

@TrillBill Ай бұрын

😂

@Hochspitz Ай бұрын

This sounds too depressing for me, given all the current wars. Humans are incapable of learning from history.

@titikati Ай бұрын

This war between the people in the same country was terrible, especially when it ended with the crual retaliation of the communists.

@cuuroichualanh6054 Ай бұрын

Tôi yêu chiến tranh!

@PercyNguyen-vr8xk Ай бұрын

@@cuuroichualanh6054 not a flex

@Papa5murf1 Ай бұрын

I thought that was RDJ!!!!!

@PetePeppers1 Ай бұрын

yeah, it sounds like this was a story he wanted to get made. He's an executive producer as is his wife.

@user-hw7tn6vs2i 18 күн бұрын

So the american is the hero?

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@Smiley_101 Ай бұрын

Im potus or vp my journey to become one is a lot more interesting than this

@ememobongnkana Ай бұрын

I really don’t understand this series

@huudang3419 29 күн бұрын

poorly made movie, the worst story of spy in war times, they ignored all the facts and details, they assume the audients are dumb and stupid!

@lightfisharts Ай бұрын

Can you please make an effort to pronounce names correctly? While your pronunciation doesn’t have to be perfect, the names should be recognizable and this is an issue of respect.

@clvrswine Ай бұрын

Oh, please.

@RealLifeIronMan Ай бұрын

That is a nearly impossible task for someone who doesn't speak the language. When you can pronounce every name in every language correctly, then you can show us how it is done.

@manhbui1710 Ай бұрын

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@titikati Ай бұрын

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@HaileyHa-ji2xd Ай бұрын

Come on let's be honest. the main character's acting. Sucks!..............When he speaks Vietnamese, can't understand very much of what he said, Sounds like he was mumbling. Robert Downey, great actor, but seems kind of lost on how he should act, his acting was a little over the top. I just wish they, would start making Vietnamese movies with actors, that can really speak the Vietnamese language . All that tonal, low mumbling really killed it for me. how do you enjoy a movie when you can't even hear what the characters are saying? I was excited for a real Vietnamese hollywood movie. I really want this to succeed, hope they can see this critique and improve. Park Chan wook, somebody needs to be honest to you, so you can tell what needs improvement.

@vincentnguyen5802 Ай бұрын

this movie is sanctioned by the vietnamese government due to "reactionary" content (look at all those VNCH flags haha), no vietnamese actor with a Vietnamese passport was able to be hired for film production

@TeDeKaay Ай бұрын

Yes, I couldn't watch it for more than 20min. In VN, no-one talks like that in real life!

@dasupertramp5855 Ай бұрын

Downey's characters are meant to be shallow and exaggerated. They are not meant to be unique individuals. They're collectively the face of US/Western colonialism, as experienced/remembered by the Captain. Read up on a few of Director Park's interviews for a better understanding.

@HaileyHa-ji2xd Ай бұрын

@@dasupertramp5855 I admit , I didn't read the novel or watch any interviews of director or actors. I wanted to watch this Show and soak in all it's splendor with an open mind. I do however have memories of Vietnam and my own perspective as a child. During the war, my father was an officer and we lived in Phan Thiet. Everytime he comes home , crowds of children would chase after his Jeep. Sometimes he would bring American soldiers to our home for visits. As a child in my little world, I was be wildered by the size and features of these Men. I grew to see them as family and friends. As you said, RDJ character is shallow and exaggerated. My own personal experiences with Americans in Vietnam was different and meaningful. The Americans , I met, were unique individuals. And if they were ever to be depicted, I would like them be seen in a better light.

@DavidNunezPNW Ай бұрын

The way they depicted the liberation of Ho Chi Minh City was so misleading, the liberation was very peaceful and the people welcomed the liberators with open arms? There are BBC news videos still available on KZfaq!

@NguyenKhangDo Ай бұрын

The communists are dictatorial to the people of the country, they forbid people from speaking differently to them, if you go against their will, the prison will imprison you, I am a victim who once shared on Facebook against their will, then They arrested me, interrogated me for 24 hours, then they fined me and invited me up many times.

@hughhoang908 Ай бұрын

Yes, I was peaceful like Russian "liberated" eastern Ukraine 😊

@RealLifeIronMan Ай бұрын

Wow, your choice of words alone tells me everything about you. No such video exists, and you know you have never seen one. The only people who believe that fluffy piece of propaganda you spouted are the Viet Cong, their descendents, and the allies of the CCP. How dare you lie as if the Viet Cong didn't kill thousands of Saigon's residents. I feel sorry that you were so brainwashed.

@haviethuong9315 Ай бұрын

there are a lot of documentaries and you can see how Saigon was chaotic right before the NVA entered the city. And Google is free bro.

@nguyenquang9233 Ай бұрын

You should have your eyes checked. And while your eyes being checked, you should consider having your brain also checked