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A long time ago...

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...a young woman went off
into the world...

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...like her brothers and sisters.

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She fought in wars...

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...had children...

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...suffered...

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...and loved greatly.

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I was the sixth-born child...

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...Phung Thi Le Ly...

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...and I lived in the most
beautiful village on earth.

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<i>My earliest memories were working
alongside Mother in the fields.</i>

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<i>Always working, my mother.</i>

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<i>Each grain of rice, a symbol of life,
never wasted.</i>

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<i>While we worked,
she'd teach me all I had to know about life.</i>

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Mama, where did I really come from?
Where do babies come from?

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From my belly button.

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Don't worry. God makes babies
and puts them in your belly.

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You have plenty of warning.

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<i>The fragile rice had to be planted
and transplanted several times.</i>

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<i>Our rice paddies were always
near the cemeteries...</i>

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<i>...because we believed the spirits
passed through the soil into the rice...</i>

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<i>...so the new generation,
in eating the rice...</i>

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<i>...was sharing in the spirit
of their ancestors.</i>

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<i>One day, in the summer of 1953...</i>

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<i>...the French came.</i>

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<i>They destroyed our village.</i>

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<i>And the following year, we went hungry.</i>

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<i>I will never forger my father's eyes...</i>

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<i>...as he watched our house burn
to the ground.</i>

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<i>But, as it had happened to our village
for so many centuries...</i>

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<i>...we rebuilt our lives.</i>

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Mama, where do babies really come from?

33
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<i>Then, in 1963...</i>

34
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<i>...the peasant countryside changed forever.</i>

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<i>When the Viet Cong first arrived
that rainy season...</i>

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<i>...some of them were remnants
from the war against the French.</i>

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<i>Many of them were displaced immigrants
from the North.</i>

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<i>All of them were angry.</i>

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<i>My parents taught me Vietnam is...</i>

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...a free nation.

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That is what this war is about.

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The Chinese, the Japanese, the French,
have each tried to rule us.

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And we have won!

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The North and the South are inseparable,
like sisters.

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But in 1954...

46
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...the French and American allies
separated us and kidnapped the South.

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Can we stand by
and watch the kidnappers...

48
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...taking turns raping
and corrupting our sister!

49
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That's what this war's about.

50
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Why should outsiders come in...

51
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...divide the land and tell people
to go north and then go south?

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Why?

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If Vietnam were truly
for the Vietnamese people...

54
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...we would be able to choose
the kind of government we want.

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A nation can't have two governments any
more than a family can have two fathers.

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-They have bombs, ten men for one of us!
-He's right.

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What do we have?

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We have rags! We have rifles!

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And sticks! We have sticks!

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We have no rank, no promotion.

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We take no money.

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We are your servants.

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We respect your homes and shrines.

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We are your family.

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Do you want to dance?

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<i>It was my brother Sau I loved the most.</i>

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<i>He was always there to protect me
and make me laugh.</i>

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Hurry.

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Sweet rice, black beans.

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You be very careful. Write, Sau.

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I will return.

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Le Ly, I will return.

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Be a big girl.
Always take care of Mama and Papa.

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Protect yourself from ghosts.

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Take care.

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<i>As they went north to Hanoi
with the Viet Cong...</i>

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<i>...I felt it was the last time
I'd see my older brother, Bon...</i>

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<i>...and my younger brother, Sau,
for a long, long time.</i>

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<i>Maybe forever.</i>

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<i>But it was Sau who was ripped
from my heart.</i>

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You understand that a country is more
than a lot of dirt, rivers and forests?

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You know your brother, Sau,
may not come back?

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I told you many times...

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...the Chinese ruled our land.

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Many died.

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Le Loi, Jia Long and the Trung sisters.

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And your ancestor Phung Thi Chinh fought
to throw out the Chinese.

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Your grandfather fought
and died against the Japanese...

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...just before you were born.

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We suffered much.

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When the Japanese came...

92
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...your mother and I were taken
to Danang...

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...to build a runway for the airplanes.

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We worked like slaves.

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Our reward was a bowl of rice...

96
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...and another day of life.

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Freedom is never a gift, Bay Ly.

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It must be won and won again.
You know that?

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I do.

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See this land?

101
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Vietnam is going to be yours now.

102
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If the enemy returns...

103
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...you must be both a daughter
and a son now.

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<i>From my father, I learned to love God
and the people I could not see...</i>

105
00:14:04,095 --> 00:14:05,513
<i>...my ancestors.</i>

106
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<i>But I would learn in time...</i>

107
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<i>...my father's words would be twisted
by events.</i>

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<i>Government soldiers came to our village
with the support of American advisors.</i>

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Your village will be safe.

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<i>They built barricades
against the Viet Cong.</i>

111
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It's part of the new Binh Ky hamlet.

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Many of you will be asked
to take militia training...

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...so you will be prepared...

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...to resist the Communist rebels!

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You will be rewarded...

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...with food and money.

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Your older children will be sent to camp...

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...for military training.

119
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But younger children can go to school.

120
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Your village will be happy and peaceful.

121
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Do you have any questions?

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Go to your leader.

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<i>The soldiers ate our food,
slept with our women...</i>

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<i>...and searched us just as the soldiers
of the warlords had centuries before.</i>

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<i>But the government leader, whose name
was Ngo Dinh Diem, America's ally...</i>

126
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<i>...was a Catholic, like the French...</i>

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<i>...and that alone made him suspicious
to the Buddhists in our area.</i>

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<i>The Northern leader, Ho Chi Minh...</i>

129
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<i>...had been a great patriot
against the Japanese and the French.</i>

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<i>We heard stories of his compassion
and his love for Vietnam.</i>

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What are they? Americans?

132
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They say they all have blind blue eyes
behind their glasses.

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If you take their shoes off,
they have soft feet and cry in pain.

134
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Take away their glasses,
their boots, they can't fight.

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Not very good soldiers.

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Not very good fence.

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Your president, Ngo Dinh Diem,
wants to know...

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...what will you do if you see a Viet Cong...

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...or hear about someone helping them.

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Turn him in to the soldiers.

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Good.

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And get a big reward for every Viet Cong
you help capture.

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<i>During the day,
we were a government village.</i>

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<i>But each night, when the soldiers returned
to their base and we played...</i>

145
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<i>...there was never any shortage
of Viet Cong fighters.</i>

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<i>One night, the Viet Cong came
for my teacher.</i>

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Have you been teaching these children
to betray their country? Traitor!

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The first thing you should learn
on this night...

149
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...Ky La was saved from the oppressors.

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We're the liberators!

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<i>The night belonged to the Viet Cong.</i>

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<i>Even though I was scared...</i>

153
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<i>...there was no real choice.</i>

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<i>They fought for our freedom
against the Southern government.</i>

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No matter who's asking the questions,
either side...

156
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...play stupid, stupid, stupid child.

157
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Any news from Sau or Bon?

158
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They're training in the North.

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-Any chance for a visit?
-There's no time for sons and mothers.

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I told them we needed her on the farm.

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For all the help she is here...

162
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...maybe we should send her with Sau.

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00:19:27,918 --> 00:19:29,837
That'll teach her the value of work.

164
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Don't say that!

165
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Le Ly must do her work like everyone else.

166
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She thinks she's too good for work.
Too busy flirting with no-good schoolboys.

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-No, it's the big boys that bother me.
-Don't talk like that.

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-Be quiet!
-Don't hit her!

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Do you hear me?

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Do you want to send all my children
to Hanoi or Saigon?

171
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If I can't have my family around me,
what's the point of living?

172
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You always think of only yourself!

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The French, the Japanese,
now the Americans are all over us!

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It's good they go North.

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War is coming, you stupid, selfish man!

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Stop it!

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Go!

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Forgive him, Mama.

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Don't cry.

180
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I've made your papa lose face.

181
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If you ever do that to a husband...

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00:20:26,977 --> 00:20:30,856
...I'll have both your cheeks glowing,
one from him and one from me.

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You hear me?

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00:20:50,751 --> 00:20:51,961
Who's first?

185
00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:58,426
You talk now or it's bye-bye, Charlie!

186
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You dig, asshole?

187
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All right, it's your ass!

188
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Kiss it good-bye.

189
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You're next.

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You talk?

191
00:21:26,871 --> 00:21:28,706
You going to talk?

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<i>At my mother's request, a local wizard
examined the umbilical cords...</i>

193
00:22:05,076 --> 00:22:06,869
<i>...of my two soldier brothers...</i>

194
00:22:07,161 --> 00:22:09,205
<i>...who hadn't written in over a year.</i>

195
00:22:09,413 --> 00:22:10,706
The older one...

196
00:22:11,707 --> 00:22:13,668
...is strong and healthy.

197
00:22:15,211 --> 00:22:16,504
The younger one...

198
00:22:16,629 --> 00:22:20,091
...is in a place too gray for me to see.

199
00:22:21,842 --> 00:22:23,761
No, that's not true.

200
00:22:24,220 --> 00:22:25,888
I know Sau is alive.

201
00:22:26,138 --> 00:22:27,598
I feel it in my womb.

202
00:22:34,105 --> 00:22:35,272
Did you hear...

203
00:22:35,439 --> 00:22:37,358
...funny noises last night?

204
00:22:38,025 --> 00:22:39,944
Maybe voices...

205
00:22:40,111 --> 00:22:41,737
...last night in the rain?

206
00:22:42,113 --> 00:22:43,030
I did.

207
00:22:44,865 --> 00:22:46,534
Here is your trouble, then.

208
00:22:47,451 --> 00:22:48,869
Your shrine...

209
00:22:49,328 --> 00:22:51,205
...is too small.

210
00:22:51,789 --> 00:22:54,375
And we have a lost soul...

211
00:22:54,792 --> 00:22:56,377
...who needs to come in.

212
00:22:56,544 --> 00:22:57,712
That's all.

213
00:22:59,088 --> 00:23:00,965
Just build a shrine outside...

214
00:23:01,340 --> 00:23:03,384
...and everything will be fine.

215
00:23:38,919 --> 00:23:42,214
<i>The Viet Cong ingrained
in us a sense of ''xa'':</i>

216
00:23:42,923 --> 00:23:44,258
<i>Duty to land...</i>

217
00:23:44,467 --> 00:23:46,052
<i>...duty to country.</i>

218
00:23:46,344 --> 00:23:48,804
<i>The ant became our moral model.</i>

219
00:23:49,180 --> 00:23:51,807
<i>We formed cells, associations...</i>

220
00:23:51,974 --> 00:23:54,643
<i>...where no one person
accumulated power over others.</i>

221
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Only in battle or by your own hands
will you be immortalized.

222
00:23:59,523 --> 00:24:03,944
<i>You never moved up in the ant society,
you only moved further in.</i>

223
00:24:04,528 --> 00:24:06,530
<i>If the Viet Cong won the peasants over...</i>

224
00:24:07,198 --> 00:24:09,909
<i>...it was because they lived their lives
with us.</i>

225
00:25:32,116 --> 00:25:35,077
<i>But every time we ambushed
the government soldiers...</i>

226
00:25:35,494 --> 00:25:37,955
<i>...twice as many came back.</i>

227
00:26:34,637 --> 00:26:37,807
Get your sorry asses down there!

228
00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:49,402
<i>One day...</i>

229
00:26:49,610 --> 00:26:51,070
<i>...they came for me.</i>

230
00:26:54,031 --> 00:26:55,658
Papa! Help me!

231
00:27:24,478 --> 00:27:27,231
Tell me quickly.
Why were you on the road?

232
00:27:27,648 --> 00:27:30,568
Cutting grass for the water buffalo.
I didn't tell my parents.

233
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Liar.

234
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Again.

235
00:27:39,368 --> 00:27:41,037
Why were you on the road?

236
00:27:41,329 --> 00:27:43,581
I didn't mean any harm!

237
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:45,374
Liar!

238
00:27:58,220 --> 00:27:59,680
<i>You are can bo cai...</i>

239
00:28:00,389 --> 00:28:02,308
...VC cadre girl.

240
00:28:02,767 --> 00:28:04,769
You were warning your friends.

241
00:28:10,733 --> 00:28:12,485
Where's the VC base?

242
00:28:14,153 --> 00:28:15,529
I don't know.

243
00:28:30,336 --> 00:28:32,380
How many battles have you been in?

244
00:28:33,339 --> 00:28:34,632
What's your rank?

245
00:28:36,300 --> 00:28:37,301
<i>Please...</i>

246
00:28:40,596 --> 00:28:41,639
I'm just a girl.

247
00:28:42,139 --> 00:28:43,391
I have not done it.

248
00:28:55,820 --> 00:28:57,613
Do you know what this is?

249
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:00,783
Think what this can do to your body.

250
00:29:01,701 --> 00:29:04,203
How would your baby like you
with no nipples?

251
00:29:04,704 --> 00:29:08,749
Or maybe I could cut some skin
off your ass to make some sandals.

252
00:29:09,166 --> 00:29:10,626
Think about it...

253
00:29:11,293 --> 00:29:12,962
...Miss Viet Cong hero.

254
00:29:13,462 --> 00:29:15,339
And when you're called again...

255
00:29:15,631 --> 00:29:18,884
...be prepared to tell me
everything you know.

256
00:30:29,205 --> 00:30:30,456
Don't move.

257
00:30:31,207 --> 00:30:32,291
Don't move.

258
00:31:06,951 --> 00:31:09,996
I haven't done anything!
I don't know anything!

259
00:32:29,075 --> 00:32:33,954
<i>My mother used my dowry to bribe
a military official to have me released.</i>

260
00:32:34,372 --> 00:32:35,414
<i>And now...</i>

261
00:32:35,665 --> 00:32:39,752
<i>...the villagers were suspicious
of my family's ties to the government.</i>

262
00:32:47,051 --> 00:32:48,260
<i>Finally...</i>

263
00:32:48,511 --> 00:32:50,388
<i>...the Viet Cong came for me.</i>

264
00:32:53,891 --> 00:32:55,601
-She did nothing!
-Stay back!

265
00:32:56,060 --> 00:32:57,061
No respect!

266
00:32:57,436 --> 00:32:58,729
You've no respect!

267
00:32:58,896 --> 00:33:01,649
-I'm coming with her!
-No, the prisoner comes alone!

268
00:33:02,608 --> 00:33:03,693
Stay back!

269
00:33:04,694 --> 00:33:06,654
Our men were betrayed.

270
00:33:06,904 --> 00:33:08,948
The informer's here!

271
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:11,784
How else could the enemy know so much?

272
00:33:13,035 --> 00:33:16,288
This village is filled with traitors!

273
00:33:16,622 --> 00:33:20,584
Government sympathizers
that would sell us out for a relative...

274
00:33:21,085 --> 00:33:23,504
...for money, for privilege!

275
00:33:24,088 --> 00:33:25,715
So I ask you:

276
00:33:26,257 --> 00:33:28,676
What should we do with these people?

277
00:33:28,801 --> 00:33:32,054
We must give these people a lesson
they will never forget.

278
00:33:37,727 --> 00:33:38,644
See?

279
00:33:39,437 --> 00:33:40,479
See it?

280
00:33:44,775 --> 00:33:46,736
-What is it?
-A grave.

281
00:33:47,069 --> 00:33:47,987
Your grave...

282
00:33:48,112 --> 00:33:49,322
...stupid girl.

283
00:33:51,907 --> 00:33:54,327
What deal did you make
to get out of prison?

284
00:33:54,452 --> 00:33:57,163
Did you promise them some of our ears
for their belts?

285
00:33:57,288 --> 00:34:01,334
No, my mother bribed an official.
Why won't you believe me?

286
00:34:01,834 --> 00:34:03,002
Little rich girl!

287
00:34:30,655 --> 00:34:31,947
You want to live?

288
00:34:36,202 --> 00:34:38,162
My life is in your hands.

289
00:34:38,371 --> 00:34:39,789
What does that mean?

290
00:34:40,873 --> 00:34:43,125
I mean I won't talk to the enemy.

291
00:34:43,834 --> 00:34:46,003
I've been shamed enough in my village.

292
00:34:47,296 --> 00:34:49,340
If you want, I'll go far away.

293
00:34:49,882 --> 00:34:51,634
I'll never come back.

294
00:34:56,847 --> 00:35:00,059
You talk about this, I'll kill you for real.

295
00:35:04,355 --> 00:35:05,648
No, don't!

296
00:35:05,981 --> 00:35:07,733
No, get off!

297
00:35:12,363 --> 00:35:13,280
Shut up!

298
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:44,353
<i>I was never to understand
why I was raped...</i>

299
00:35:44,603 --> 00:35:45,855
<i>...and not killed.</i>

300
00:35:47,231 --> 00:35:50,401
<i>Or if I had ever really been sentenced
by the Viet Cong.</i>

301
00:35:53,571 --> 00:35:56,198
<i>It may have just been a warning
to my father.</i>

302
00:35:58,701 --> 00:36:00,453
<i>But it ended forever...</i>

303
00:36:00,911 --> 00:36:03,331
<i>...my relationship to my village.</i>

304
00:36:28,397 --> 00:36:31,150
<i>My sister Hai found us a job in the city.</i>

305
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:35,655
<i>Papa stayed on the land
to guard the spirits of our ancestors.</i>

306
00:36:36,906 --> 00:36:37,990
<i>In Saigon...</i>

307
00:36:38,574 --> 00:36:40,284
<i>...much to our confusion...</i>

308
00:36:40,451 --> 00:36:42,578
<i>...the monks were being arrested.</i>

309
00:36:53,631 --> 00:36:56,926
<i>I've never seen so many cars,
so many people.</i>

310
00:36:59,261 --> 00:37:00,429
The other one.

311
00:37:19,657 --> 00:37:21,200
Madam, they're ready.

312
00:37:29,208 --> 00:37:30,084
This way.

313
00:37:46,017 --> 00:37:48,436
Country fresh. Good workers.

314
00:37:52,690 --> 00:37:54,316
So, which village?

315
00:37:54,483 --> 00:37:55,443
Ky La.

316
00:37:55,776 --> 00:37:57,695
Near Danang?

317
00:37:59,864 --> 00:38:02,116
Ly is wonderful with children.

318
00:38:02,366 --> 00:38:03,909
Perfect babysitter.

319
00:38:04,493 --> 00:38:05,911
How old is she?

320
00:38:06,329 --> 00:38:07,413
Eighteen.

321
00:38:08,956 --> 00:38:10,124
Is she strong?

322
00:38:10,541 --> 00:38:15,212
Yes, she's very strong. She started
to work in the fields when she was four.

323
00:38:18,257 --> 00:38:19,342
They'll do.

324
00:38:20,009 --> 00:38:21,093
Let's go.

325
00:39:06,931 --> 00:39:09,433
You'll be punished for this, you stupid girl!

326
00:39:09,934 --> 00:39:11,936
Making the Master open the door!

327
00:39:12,103 --> 00:39:15,231
Don't be too hard on her.
It's been a long day.

328
00:39:15,773 --> 00:39:17,900
Run off to bed. I'm fine. Go on.

329
00:41:08,552 --> 00:41:09,970
I couldn't sleep.

330
00:41:10,554 --> 00:41:12,181
I couldn't either, Master.

331
00:42:33,971 --> 00:42:35,806
I am not your first.

332
00:42:37,641 --> 00:42:38,768
Yes, you are.

333
00:42:47,485 --> 00:42:48,861
I was raped...

334
00:42:53,366 --> 00:42:55,785
...by the village boys in Ky La.

335
00:42:59,330 --> 00:43:00,956
My poor thing.

336
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:37,326
Have you bled?

337
00:43:44,834 --> 00:43:46,085
Stupid girl.

338
00:43:47,336 --> 00:43:50,798
You weren't satisfied with a perfect life
in a perfect house?

339
00:43:51,132 --> 00:43:55,511
You had to seduce the husband!
Made him stray from his wife.

340
00:43:55,886 --> 00:43:57,388
Look what it brought you.

341
00:43:57,555 --> 00:44:00,850
That's not how it happened!
Anh cares for me. He loves me.

342
00:44:01,267 --> 00:44:04,854
Do you think a stupid girl like you
means anything to him?

343
00:44:05,771 --> 00:44:07,982
Now you're going to have his bastard.

344
00:44:08,816 --> 00:44:09,817
Perfect!

345
00:44:10,359 --> 00:44:12,194
You'll have to get rid of it.

346
00:44:13,404 --> 00:44:15,698
We'll go see the herbalist tomorrow.

347
00:44:53,944 --> 00:44:55,571
What are you doing?

348
00:44:56,614 --> 00:44:58,324
Oh, I'm sorry, Madam.

349
00:45:02,953 --> 00:45:04,580
I'm expecting a child.

350
00:45:06,248 --> 00:45:07,625
Yes, I know.

351
00:45:08,125 --> 00:45:10,127
We learned it from the herbalist.

352
00:45:11,921 --> 00:45:13,255
Who is the father?

353
00:45:14,632 --> 00:45:16,425
Don't look so surprised.

354
00:45:20,388 --> 00:45:21,389
A boy.

355
00:45:22,598 --> 00:45:25,226
Someone I met in the park.
You don't know him.

356
00:45:26,686 --> 00:45:28,854
Why are you burning incense?

357
00:45:30,648 --> 00:45:31,649
Because...

358
00:45:32,650 --> 00:45:34,276
...I don't want the baby.

359
00:45:34,568 --> 00:45:36,570
I was praying to be forgiven.

360
00:45:36,988 --> 00:45:39,448
In front of my husband's ancestors?

361
00:45:41,575 --> 00:45:43,536
I don't know what else to do.

362
00:45:44,203 --> 00:45:45,663
The boy's Catholic, like you.

363
00:45:46,580 --> 00:45:47,999
I'm a Buddhist.

364
00:45:48,958 --> 00:45:50,042
I see.

365
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:54,922
Le Ly, I have another explanation.

366
00:45:57,466 --> 00:46:00,845
I believe the father of your baby
is my husband.

367
00:46:01,387 --> 00:46:02,930
<i>Oh, no! Anh... I mean the--</i>

368
00:46:03,055 --> 00:46:03,973
Silence!

369
00:46:13,649 --> 00:46:15,109
You know I'm not well.

370
00:46:16,610 --> 00:46:19,071
But I have given my husband sons.

371
00:46:19,864 --> 00:46:21,115
Beautiful boys.

372
00:46:22,033 --> 00:46:24,368
As fine as any woman could've given him.

373
00:46:24,869 --> 00:46:26,078
Don't think...

374
00:46:27,371 --> 00:46:29,749
...you won't pay for what you've done.

375
00:46:31,584 --> 00:46:34,420
You and your daughter
must leave the house at once.

376
00:46:34,879 --> 00:46:35,796
Leave?

377
00:46:36,922 --> 00:46:38,132
But why?

378
00:46:39,091 --> 00:46:40,509
Nobody knows but you.

379
00:46:41,886 --> 00:46:44,347
Let people think the father is some soldier.

380
00:46:45,056 --> 00:46:47,224
I know, and that's enough.

381
00:46:49,852 --> 00:46:52,480
Men are like dogs pissing on posts.

382
00:46:53,064 --> 00:46:54,857
They go once, they go twice.

383
00:46:55,191 --> 00:46:58,611
But Bay Ly's no threat to you.
She has nothing for a proper man.

384
00:46:59,153 --> 00:47:01,072
She's just a country girl.

385
00:47:01,614 --> 00:47:04,116
An ignorant, stupid, foolish child.

386
00:47:04,742 --> 00:47:06,827
A maid that will never be a bride.

387
00:47:07,328 --> 00:47:09,205
She's nothing! Worthless!

388
00:47:09,580 --> 00:47:10,998
Absolutely not.

389
00:47:11,666 --> 00:47:13,584
I won't have her in my house.

390
00:47:13,959 --> 00:47:15,211
Not as a nanny.

391
00:47:15,795 --> 00:47:16,962
Not as a housekeeper.

392
00:47:17,088 --> 00:47:18,422
Then as number two wife!

393
00:47:18,547 --> 00:47:19,131
What?

394
00:47:19,674 --> 00:47:20,716
You're crazy.

395
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:24,345
As concubine to the Master.

396
00:47:24,553 --> 00:47:26,722
As your slave to kick around.

397
00:47:27,348 --> 00:47:30,309
To warm your husband's bed
when you have better things to do.

398
00:47:30,643 --> 00:47:35,064
Why waste your health on a man's rutting
when you can leave it to a stupid girl?

399
00:47:36,524 --> 00:47:38,067
You're always number one wife.

400
00:47:38,234 --> 00:47:39,652
The law is on your side.

401
00:47:39,777 --> 00:47:42,279
-Please, Mama!
-Stupid, stop!

402
00:47:49,829 --> 00:47:52,456
They must go now. Today, before supper.

403
00:47:53,666 --> 00:47:55,418
You tried to get rid of it?

404
00:47:55,710 --> 00:47:57,086
Yes, of course.

405
00:47:57,503 --> 00:47:59,422
But your seed, Master, is too strong.

406
00:48:00,172 --> 00:48:02,675
Now it has hold of Bay Ly, too.

407
00:48:03,092 --> 00:48:06,012
Please, help us get by the best we can.

408
00:48:06,470 --> 00:48:08,389
At least until the child is born.

409
00:48:09,682 --> 00:48:11,809
I won't throw you into the street.

410
00:48:12,268 --> 00:48:14,979
But I cannot ask my wife
to let you live with us.

411
00:48:16,522 --> 00:48:17,898
I'll put you in an apartment.

412
00:48:17,982 --> 00:48:19,066
Not in Saigon.

413
00:48:19,191 --> 00:48:21,110
How far away do you want them?

414
00:48:21,986 --> 00:48:24,071
How far can you drive in a day?

415
00:48:26,907 --> 00:48:27,867
All right.

416
00:48:31,078 --> 00:48:32,997
I will send them back to Danang.

417
00:48:33,164 --> 00:48:34,457
But we have nothing!

418
00:48:34,582 --> 00:48:36,834
With enough money until the baby's born.

419
00:48:36,959 --> 00:48:38,419
I'll send you money monthly.

420
00:48:38,711 --> 00:48:40,338
To a bank or a relative.

421
00:48:40,963 --> 00:48:43,299
I don't want you to know their address.

422
00:48:43,758 --> 00:48:45,259
That's an absolute condition.

423
00:48:48,637 --> 00:48:50,973
You will have enough to live on.

424
00:48:53,267 --> 00:48:54,977
My steward will handle everything.