Once in a while you come across a film that, despite its context, contains a message that will continue to ring true with viewers over the years.

For me, that movie is Good Morning, Vietnam.

Not being a child of the '60s, I couldn't experience the social climate during the Vietnam War. But as we find ourselves in a similar situation today with a country divided over a war, this film still speaks to our present condition.

The story is about wartime DJ Adrian Cronauer, played by Robin Williams, who's transferred to Saigon, Vietnam, in 1965 to spice up the local military radio show.

The title of the film comes from Cronauer's greeting to the troops at the beginning of each broadcast.

The fun begins as Williams' wild antics and subversive humor start to irritate his superiors, particularly 2nd Lt. Steven Hauk, played by Bruno Kirby, whose idea of good radio is a large helping of polka.

Williams' dead-on impersonations and spitfire humor make him the perfect DJ, and the troops eat it up while James Brown is blasted through the rice paddies and jungle.

Williams soon runs into trouble when he butts heads with the censorship twins, two government officials who read over the news before broadcasts.

With the conflict escalating around them and trouble back home, Cronauer's hands are tied when it comes to reporting only "official news" to the stationed troops.

Williams is joined by fellow officers Edward Garlick, played by Forest Whitaker, and Marty Lee Dreiwitz, played by Robert Wuhl, who stick up for him at the station.

Shortly after his arrival, Williams falls for a Vietnamese woman and starts teaching her English class so he can scheme his way into the picture.

While teaching the class, Williams befriends the girl's brother, who in turn shows him how the natives live and cope with military presence. Throughout the film, there is an ongoing culture clash between the natives and the troops, and Williams manages to keep his humor despite the heavy cultural tension.

Despite being holed up in a radio booth during most of his stay, Williams sees the Vietnamese conflict firsthand when a café frequented by Americans explodes right after he leaves, killing civilians and fellow officers. When he tries to report it on the radio, he gets kicked off the air by the commanding officer Sgt. Maj. Phillip "Dick" Dickerson, played by wonderfully terrifying J.T. Walsh.

Luckily for the troops and the audience, Williams gets reinstated after a huge backlash from the army against the new programming. Frustrated with the censorship, Williams is convinced to return after running into some of his fans in a caravan of soldiers. He knows that many of them won't return, but he also realizes the great impact his show has on them.

After meeting these men, Williams decides he wants to go out into the field and interview his fellow soldiers. After purposely being sent on a route that fell to the enemy, Williams and Whitaker's jeep hits some landmines, and they find themselves in Viet Cong territory. They are saved again by Williams' student Tuan, who turns out to be more than an innocent schoolboy.

Despite being a comedy, this film tackles some real issues. Censorship is an obvious theme, but wartime ethics are examined as well as the question of whether occupied countries want to be "saved" by the U.S.

All of the actors are phenomenal in this film, especially the unknown Vietnamese actors. Good Morning, Vietnam will not only make you pee your pants laughing, but it will make you think, and it showcases once again how versatile an actor Williams really is.