The film opens with the fictional narrative of a Vietnamese-Khmer construction worker who specializes in brise-soleil, the concrete lattices for shading and ventilating buildings that, in cities like Ho Chi Minh City (before 1976 named Saigon), unite a traditional Vietnamese building technique with a modern material linked to US domination. The film’s second half, set during the 18th century’s feudal wars, centers on a folkloric love story between a Vietnamese medicinal healer and a Khmer woman that unfolds around the symbolic significance of a durian (or “thouren”) fruit, a major product of the Mekong Delta.
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Wow! Such a good movie.
SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?
All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
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