1:00:00
I had this terrible fear
you would despise me...
1:00:05
...because I married your enemy
and left while you were still fighting.
1:00:09
It's been so many years.
1:00:12
Much is forgiven.
1:00:15
But you don't understand
how much suffering Americans caused.
1:00:19
Things are very hard.
1:00:22
We use our own excrement...
1:00:23
...to grow vegetables!
1:00:26
All we had to hold on to was the future...
1:00:29
...because we knew that the future
would not arrive unless we won...
1:00:34
...so we kept dying, no matter what...
1:00:38
...just like ants beneath the elephant's feet.
1:00:43
It wasn't because we were brave.
1:00:45
Because we had no choice.
1:00:48
Our freedom was all...
1:00:51
...all that mattered.
1:00:55
When the future finally came...
1:00:58
...there was more war.
1:01:00
The Cambodians, the Chinese.
1:01:05
When I came to look for Mama in 1980....
1:01:09
You have no idea
how much your mother suffered.
1:01:12
She was too old to work the paddies.
1:01:15
She had to give the land,
our land, to the State after liberation.
1:01:21
When I found Mama and Hai...
1:01:23
...they were starving.
1:01:24
Their clothes were rags,
their farm tools stolen...
1:01:28
...the animals slaughtered.
1:01:30
The house was in ruins.
1:01:32
Wild dogs attacked them.
1:01:34
Nobody in the village cared for them.
1:01:37
Just two old ladies scavenging...
1:01:39
...and growing vegetables to stay alive.
1:01:43
Now you come here...
1:01:45
...a rich, strange foreigner.
1:01:48
You'll turn the village against them.
1:01:50
And against us...
1:01:54
...the Phungs, who have suffered so much.