沉静的美国人

故事发生在1952年，越南局势紧张，动乱和战争一触即发。艾登（布兰登·费舍 Brendan Fraser 饰）是由美国援助组织派往越南的工作人员，目睹了越南发生的种种，艾登满腹热忱，希望自己能够在这里大干一番，之后，艾登结识了名叫托马斯（迈克尔·凯恩 Michael Caine 饰）的男子，他是伦敦时报的特派员，十分了解当地的情况。 　　一次偶然中，艾登见到了托马斯的越南情妇凤（杜海严 饰），很快，艾登就被凤身上所散发出来的神秘气息所吸引，他不可自持地爱上了凤。就这样，艾登、托马斯和凤之间交织出了一段充满了激情而又摇摇欲坠的三角关系，一场凶杀案的发生让这段关系慢慢地濒临崩塌的边缘。British Thomas Fowler enjoys his life in Saigon working as a reporter for the London Times, covering the conflict in Vietnam between the colonial French powers and the communists, who seem to be winning the war. In the later stages of his career, he takes his job lightly now, filing stories only on occasion, and no longer doing field work. But most important, this posting allows him to escape from what he considers a dreary life in London--including an unsatisfying marriage to a Catholic woman, who will never grant him a divorce--which in turn allows him to have an affair with a young Vietnamese ex-taxi dancer named Phuong, whom he loves and would marry if he were able. Phuong's sister doesn't much like Fowler if only because Fowler cannot provide a stable future for her. His idyllic life is threatened when head office suggests he go back to London. In this way, he decides to write a major story to prove to his superiors that he should stay in Saigon. In 1952, Fowler is called into the local police inspector's office to provide any information on his friend, thirty-ish American Alden Pyle, who has been found murdered. Fowler had met Pyle the previous year when he arrived in Vietnam to work as part of the American contingent in the Economic Aid Mission. Fowler and Pyle's relationship was not always harmonious, initially as Pyle admitted he too was in love with Phuong and wanted to marry her. That antagonistic relationship would extend to their professional lives, around Fowler believing that the story that would allow him to stay in Vietnam was the rise of a man named General Thé, and Pyle's belief that a third power should come in to take over Vietnam from both the French and the communists. The question becomes whether Fowler knows more about Pyle's demise than he lets on to the inspector.