Journey from the Fall Page #4

Synopsis: Thirteen years after the end of the Vietnam War, a family who was tragically affected by the war are forced to emigrate to America.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Ham Tran
Production: Imaginasian Pictures
  7 wins.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
70
Rotten Tomatoes:
92%
R
Year:
2006
135 min
$498,000
Website
216 Views


Do you want me to finish the story?

The Masked Bandit arrived

at the Chandelier Hall too late.

Odious had already

tortured his brother and crew

and hung them.

All right, that's it! It's not a circus.

It's not a playground for all your...

Please! Are you listening to me?

Get out of here!

- You leave her alone.

- Come here, baby.

Get off! Goddamn!

No, no, no, sweetheart, come here,

come here. Come on.

Dad?

- Dad? Dad?

- I'm not feeling real well.

- What do you want?

- He's doing it again.

Will you stop that? Leave him alone!

- What's that?

- Food.

- Where'd you get it?

- The chapel.

I'm sorry I shouted at you.

I was angry.

No problem.

Are you trying to save my soul?

Are you trying to save my soul?

- Do you understand me?

- What?

- Did you understand what I meant?

- What you said?

I said, are you trying to save my soul?

- Giving me that.

- What mean that?

The Eucharist. It's a...

What?

The Eucharist.

The thing you gave me. It's a...

It saves your soul.

The thing I gave to you, what?

The little piece of bread

that you just gave me.

It saves your soul.

- What? What? What?

- Are you worried about me?

Saves your soul.

Do you know what "soul" means?

- No.

- It's like strength.

Why does the old man

keep his teeth in a glass at night?

It's where he keeps his strength, his spirit.

His spirit is in those teeth.

Yeah.

Oh, you're missing a little strength

right in the front of your mouth.

The chapel's in the main block, isn't it?

Yes. What happened with the Black Bandit?

I'm sorry.

It's okay.

They keep the medicine in the main block,

don't they?

Yes.

That which has been taken from me

can never be replaced.

My brother...

- Why he speaks like this?

- Because he's your father.

But my father is dead.

What?

Okay, how do you want me...

How do you want him to speak?

I think of all the joys we had.

Normal, like you.

I could've saved you, but I was weak.

My grief has gone blood-red with revenge.

I'm stronger now.

I will search the four corners of this Earth,

find Governor Odious and joyously kill him!

By the Blue Bandit's honor, I swear

I will annihilate him

and everything that he loves!

I will destroy him! I will destroy him!

Destroy him! I will destroy him!

And every Spanish thing.

I thought he was Spanish.

No.

He was French.

Are you with me, bandits?

Darwin! Which way to Governor Odious?

I tell him not to put the map with the bugs.

Are we lost?

Sorry, Capitaine.

Hey! No!

Hey! You can't eat it, it's poisonous!

What's he saying?

He says we should follow him

to greener pastures!

- What?

- He say it's greener down there.

Green? Down where?

I don't know.

To greener pastures!

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Ham Tran

Ham Tran (Trần Hàm) is a Vietnamese American film writer, editor, and director. He is of Hoa (Chinese Vietnamese) ancestry, specifically Teochew.He earned an MFA in film directing from the UCLA Film School and is most famous for his thesis film The Anniversary, which was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film. His most recent effort is the feature film How to Fight in Six Inch Heels which had its U.S. premiere on 13 March 2014 at CAAMFest in San Francisco. Tran also directed the full-length Vietnamese boat people and reeducation camp drama, Journey From the Fall, which was picked up in North America by ImaginAsian Pictures and released nationally on March 23, 2007. In 2009, Tran received the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Filmmaking. more…

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