The Quiet American
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:25:28
No, no! Don't shoot!
:25:35
What the hell are you doing here?
:25:37
They wouldn't let my truck
out of Phnom Penh

:25:40
so I figured I'd see
what was going on for myself.

:25:43
You're lucky to get here alive.
:25:49
It wasn't that hard after I hired a boat.
It wasn't expensive.

:25:53
- In the end I just bought it.
- You are mad.

:25:55
- I'm mad?
- Yes.

:25:57
Have you ever seen anyone
with trachoma?

:25:59
- Yes, I suppose I have.
- It's not that easy to remain uninvolved.

:26:04
This way.
:26:05
"Not that easy to remain uninvolved. "
:26:12
I had hidden for so long
behind a typewriter.

:26:18
What we found there,
what we saw, in Phat Diem.

:26:23
What did that do?
:26:27
To his zeal, to my detachment?
:26:31
The dead are not involved.
:26:35
The dead have no zeal.
:26:37
They are lying in wait.
:26:40
You see them, all their tenderness,
:26:46
and then they haunt you.
:26:50
- Communists?
- This is not the work of French soldiers.

:26:54
It doesn't make sense.
:26:57
The communists don't kill townspeople.

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