Last night we saw a Vietnamese movie. An orphan, Thuy, runs away from her user-abuser paternal uncle's bamboo-shades-making factory.
To survive the streets of Saigon she sells post cards and roses to locals and tourists; sleeps on streets in cardboard boxes. Walking streets she meets two lonely hearts who are kind to her. Hai, an elephant tender has been jilted by his beautiful but snobbish girlfriend who wants him to get a "managerial" job. Lan, an airline flight-attendant is seeing a married pilot but the relationship is at a dead-end.
Thuy, wittingly-unwittingly plays a matchmaker to these two lonley hearts. Like any 'feel-good' movie it ends with everybody living happily ever after.
The little girl acted well; so did the other main cast.
Saigon streets were reminiscent of any India streets; throbbing with life; abuzzed with activities of making living; barely surviving and not minding it.
What I liked about this movie is the tempo; slow but not boring; gentle but not mushy. Most of all, I liked that it was a social-familial movie. I saw such movie after a long time and it warmed my heart.
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Last night we saw a Vietnamese movie. An orphan, Thuy, runs away from her user-abuser paternal uncle's bamboo-shades-making factory.
To survive the streets of Saigon she sells post cards and roses to locals and tourists; sleeps on streets in cardboard boxes. Walking streets she meets two lonely hearts who are kind to her. Hai, an elephant tender has been jilted by his beautiful but snobbish girlfriend who wants him to get a "managerial" job. Lan, an airline flight-attendant is seeing a married pilot but the relationship is at a dead-end.
Thuy, wittingly-unwittingly plays a matchmaker to these two lonley hearts. Like any 'feel-good' movie it ends with everybody living happily ever after.
The little girl acted well; so did the other main cast.
Saigon streets were reminiscent of any India streets; throbbing with life; abuzzed with activities of making living; barely surviving and not minding it.
What I liked about this movie is the tempo; slow but not boring; gentle but not mushy. Most of all, I liked that it was a social-familial movie. I saw such movie after a long time and it warmed my heart.
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