Inkoo Kang reviews the HBO miniseries “The Sympathizer,” co-created by Park Chan-wook and starring Hoa Xuande, Robert Downey, Jr., and Sandra Oh.
The Captain, a North Vietnamese undercover agent who has embedded himself in the intelligence office of a South Vietnamese military leader known as the General , looks forward to helping remake his homeland after the Communists’ victory. Instead, he’s instructed by his handler, Man , to follow the General and his family to Los Angeles.
Incapable of looking his victim in the eye, the hardly hardened Captain resorts to hiding Dumpling’s face with a paper bag from a nearby burger joint. It’s mordant and tragic and suspenseful and strange—a scene with kill-or-be-killed stakes set against the backdrop of L.A.’s many run-down apartments. In the aftermath, the pungent fruit lies abandoned in a corner, a distinctly Asian memento mori. “The Sympathizer” is most successful as a portrait of such intra-community conflicts and desires.
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