导演: Freida Lee Mock 编剧: Freida Lee Mock 主演: Maya Lin 类型: 纪录片 / 传记
制片国家/地区: 美国 语言: 英语 上映日期: 1995-11-10 片长: 105 分钟

It was for good reason this film won the 1995 Academy Award for Best Documentary, as it displays, in abundance,

the emotional human responses Maya Lin elicits with her architectural designs and sculpture. There was much

 controversy surrounding her Vietnam War Memorial, not the least of which focused on her Chinese-American origins.

Writer/director Freida Lee Mock uses conventional methods (interviews, archival footage) to follow Lin's career in

chronological order. It examines her work since winning the contest in which her student model was chosen for

 the infamous Washington war memorial. The stark emotion evoked by Lin's sensuous and kinetic creations promises

 to bring tears to your eyes. Unfortunately, we learn more about her work than about the artist, whose personality is

oddly absent from this film. Mock only somewhat reveals the intense focus and powerful vision that drives Lin.

                                                                                                                                         --Rochelle O'Gorman