The Story of Agent Orange; Unnatural Causes When a person hears about war, they think of guns, bombs and absolute chaos. The soldiers in Vietnam are the ones who truly know the true history and experience of war. Lamont Johnson, the director of the film The Agent Orange Story; Unnatural Causes, offers many different perspectives on the life of soldiers after Vietnam. Whether soldiers are experiencing mental or physical pain, Johnson turns madness into reality. Some views range from short-term illnesses to a lack of acceptance between the soldier and his community. So Johnson directs an intense, gripping drama that will push audiences to understand war. Johnson presents to the audience that soldiers enter Vietnam with an open mind. This means that they are positive and open to obstacles that come their way. Johnson showed how soldiers' opinions changed when they returned home from war. The main character, Frank Coleman, returned from the war angry and distraught. Whatever went wrong, he blamed the war. Coleman blamed Nam for the end of his marriage, for the deaths of his partners and, above all, for the cancer he has developed since returning home. Coleman talks to DeVictor, a VA who is trying to help veterans, and tells her about the duty he still believes he must perform. “If you were in a safe place and your friends were shot, you would go back and get them.” (Coleman) The director uses this phrase as a reference to soldiers and America. Coleman is a symbol for America and has a duty to save fallen soldiers. Johnson uses great symbols and comparisons to show the audience the obstacles veterans faced upon returning... middle of the paper... sure, but it's something DeVictor and many veterans feel differently about. Veterans' stories were something hard for Americans to believe since they were not part of the war. The director reveals how unaware Americans were during Vietnam. Lamont Johnson, the director of the film The Agent Orange Story; Unnatural Causes, offers many different perspectives on the life of soldiers after Vietnam. The opinions range from physical, emotional and habitual emotions. Johnson expresses these emotions with their inability to cope with their new physical bodies, their emotional responses to the world, and inability to be part of society again. In a way he convinced the audience to look at each other differently in their physical, emotional and habitual emotions. Johnson directs an intense and gripping drama that will push audiences to understand war.