
Songs That Won the War
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- 1994
- 75 min
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He's back.
My name's Lidia Simmons,
and I'm 12 years old.
And these here are my memoirs.
I can't really tell you much
about me nor my life
without first I tell you about
my brother Stu.
All spring
Stu had been kind of quiet.
Perhaps it was because
our father had gone out looking
for work and never returned.
It wasn't the first time
Dad went away.
Ever since he'd come back from
Vietnam, things hadn't been just right.
Mom held two jobs
just to make ends meet,
and we were still dirt poor like
everybody else in Juliette, Mississippi.
But this June morning
in 1970 was different.
All the flowers were in bloom,
and along with the color
and the sweet smell of summer,
our father had come home.
Looks lonely.
Looks more lonely
than anybody I ever seen.
Mom says that
war destroyed our lives.
It's how come
he couldn't find work.
It's why he's been gone
all this time.
Says if it weren't for the damn
war, we'd still have that house.
The house had termites.
That's why
I'll see you later.
Don't get arrested.
As I watched
my brother walk to my dad,
I knew he would start talking to
him as if no time had passed at all.
No one in my family
ever seemed to say "hello. "
I guess that was our way of
never having to say good-bye.
We sure had ourselves a lot of good
times in this old place, didn't we?
Yeah. We sure did.
Simmons!
Your house is on fire again!
Oh, no! No, no, no.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
You okay?
Shoot!
I'm fine.
Stu, don't you dare.
Why don't you go
and wake up your dad,
tell him
breakfast is about ready.
Yes, ma'am.
Dad. Dad. Hey, Dad. Dad.
Dad! Dad!
Jeez!
You all right?
Yeah, I'm fine, son.
I'm sorry.
Get ready...
Hi.
Mmm. Mmm!
Eggs and everything!
Look how nice
it all goes together.
You don't think
it's too well-done?
No. No, not at all.
I just pretend
like I'm a starving Indian
and this is
my last piece of sausage,
and I got into a fight over it
it tumbled into the fire,
and this is all that's left
between me and death.
I'm that Indian.
Give it here.
Give it back.
Give it back, Dad.
Stu, you wanna do us
Dear Lord, bless this food.
Please.
Hey, asshole!
Stu! Stuart!
Hey! That's enough. That's
enough now, both of you!
Just quit it.
You all right, son?
Tell your sister
I'll be gunning for her.
Yeah, all right, Lester.
I'll tell her you was gunning for
her in a doughnut shop, you moron!
You'll see, Simmons.
I'm gonna kick your ass too!
What was that all about?
Stuart, I turn my back
for a second,
you're in
the middle of a fight.
Who is that boy?
His name's Lester Lucket.
stuck in summer school.
She hit him in the tooth
with a rock,
and he told the principal she'd
been cheating off all his papers.
She hit him in the mouth
with a rock?
Oh, yeah. He's always
calling her names.
So last year she vowed to knock
every tooth in his head out.
I'm gonna have to
talk to that girl.
She got
a pretty good start.
I should know about?
Well, yeah,
she's doing a lot of things,
but I don't think
I didn't bring you down here to
referee a boxing match, Stuart.
I brought you down here
to tell you about something
I've been putting off.
You know how all this time
I been out looking for work?
Yeah.
ain't entirely accurate.
I been in a...
I been in a hospital.
For what?
Well, it has to do
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