Ghosts Page #4

Synopsis: A young girl, Ai Qin, pays $25,000 to be smuggled into the UK in order to support her family back in China. She is forced to live with eleven other Chinese in a small house in Thetford, Norfolk, working in factories and fields preparing food. The film was inspired by the Morecambe Bay tragedy of 2004, when a gang of Chinese cockle-pickers found themselves trapped tide coming in.
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Director(s): Nick Broomfield
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Year:
2006
96 min
25 Views


Take your toothbrush.

Mum, it's me.

I'm going to change job soon.

The boss has found us better work.

Housing conditions are better.

If you need me, call this number.

Can I speak to Bebe?

Hello, Bebe. It's Mummy.

Mummy is going to move to the seaside soon.

You can go to the seaside, too.

You can call, "Mummy! Mummy!"

And I'll hear it from this side.

Hurry up!

It's mostly garbage. Let's leave it.

We should wash the dishes.

Push it.

What is that smell?

How many rooms are there?

It's very smelly, isn't it?

- Go get the mattresses.

- Why is it even worse?

Such a small room.

Only two rooms.

Ai Qin, look over there. It's really pretty.

Our home is just on the other side.

Your son is there.

- Look, there's a rainbow.

- Yes, it just rained.

It stretches halfway across the sea.

I hope this is a new beginning.

I think that rainbow is a good omen.

It announces a new beginning.

How does the rainbow announce that?

It's there in the sky, so it's a new beginning.

That's all.

This is our first day, and we see a rainbow.

It's like it's welcoming us.

Like this.

Scrape them together, and then put them in this.

Then keep shaking it.

- Xiao Li?

- Yeah?

We've worked so hard,

but we'll only fill about four or five bags.

That's 30 today.

There aren't many cockles here.

The other area looks better,

but the Ghosts don't want us there.

It looks like they occupy that area.

If we went cockling there, we could make double.

Yes, there are loads of cockles there.

My legs are killing me.

F*** off!

Have some water.

Are you all right?

This is f***ing dangerous.

We can't go again in the f***ing daytime.

There's too many of them.

I think we should go at night from now on.

They all hang out at bars at night.

If we go cockling at night, we can avoid them.

Let me make some soup.

I could put our cockles in it.

The weather's terrible.

Ghosts won't come out when it's like this.

F***! Tide's up. Quickly, let's move!

F***! It's coming fast!

It's moving fast!

You've put all our lives in danger!

What the hell are you talking about?

You want to drive?

You think I'm not f***ing worried?

- Turn right.

- No, it's left. You're going the wrong way.

The shore is that way.

Get out of the van.

We'll head for that sandbank

and try to get across.

Don't go! Don't go! There's quicksand!

Stay with the van.

Is the water high over there?

Can we swim across?

- They're telling us to swim over.

- I can't swim.

Is it safe over there?

Some people got stuck in the sand.

Stop crying! You just f***ing cry all the time!

Let's swim to shore.

Call me Mummy. It's Mummy.

Don't you recognize Mummy?

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Nick Broomfield

Nicholas "Nick" Broomfield (born 1948) is an English documentary film director. His self-reflexive style has been highly influential, and was adapted by many later filmmakers. In the early 21st century, he began to use non-actors in scripted works, which he calls "Direct Cinema". His output ranges from studies of entertainers to political works such as examinations of South Africa before and after the end of apartheid and the rise of the black-majority government of Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress party. Broomfield generally works with a minimal crew, recording sound himself and using one or two camera operators. He is often seen in the finished film, usually holding the sound boom and wearing the Nagra tape recorder. more…

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