Heaven & Earth Page #2

Take away their glasses,

their boots, they can't fight.

Not very good soldiers.

Not very good fence.

Your president, Ngo Dinh Diem,

wants to know...

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

...or hear about someone helping them.

Turn him in to the soldiers.

Good.

And get a big reward for every Viet Cong

you help capture.

During the day,

we were a government village.

But each night, when the soldiers returned

to their base and we played...

... there was never any shortage

of Viet Cong fighters.

One night, the Viet Cong came

for my teacher.

Have you been teaching these children

to betray their country? Traitor!

The first thing you should learn

on this night...

...Ky La was saved from the oppressors.

We're the liberators!

The night belonged to the Viet Cong.

Even though I was scared...

... there was no real choice.

They fought for our freedom

against the Southern government.

No matter who's asking the questions,

either side...

...play stupid, stupid, stupid child.

Any news from Sau or Bon?

They're training in the North.

- Any chance for a visit?

- There's no time for sons and mothers.

I told them we needed her on the farm.

For all the help she is here...

...maybe we should send her with Sau.

That'll teach her the value of work.

Don't say that!

Le Ly must do her work like everyone else.

She thinks she's too good for work.

Too busy flirting with no-good schoolboys.

- No, it's the big boys that bother me.

- Don't talk like that.

- Be quiet!

- Don't hit her!

Do you hear me?

Do you want to send all my children

to Hanoi or Saigon?

If I can't have my family around me,

what's the point of living?

You always think of only yourself!

The French, the Japanese,

now the Americans are all over us!

It's good they go North.

War is coming, you stupid, selfish man!

Stop it!

Go!

Forgive him, Mama.

Don't cry.

I've made your papa lose face.

If you ever do that to a husband...

...I'll have both your cheeks glowing,

one from him and one from me.

You hear me?

Who's first?

You talk now or it's bye-bye, Charlie!

You dig, a**hole?

All right, it's your ass!

Kiss it good-bye.

You're next.

You talk?

You going to talk?

At my mother's request, a local wizard

examined the umbilical cords...

... of my two soldier brothers...

... who hadn't written in over a year.

The older one...

...is strong and healthy.

The younger one...

...is in a place too gray for me to see.

No, that's not true.

I know Sau is alive.

I feel it in my womb.

Did you hear...

...funny noises last night?

Maybe voices...

...last night in the rain?

I did.

Here is your trouble, then.

Your shrine...

...is too small.

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