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Vietnam, me love you long time. All day, all night, me love you long time.
Alex Garland
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Alex Garland
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: May 26
Film Director
Film Producer
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London
England
Alexander Medawar Garland
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Vietnam, me love you long time. All day, all night, me love you long time. (...) Dropping acid on the Mekong Delta, smoking grass through a rifle barrel, flying on a helicopter with opera blasting out of loudspeakers, tracer-fire and paddy-field scenery, the smell of napalm in the morning. Long time.
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By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed.
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