1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:33,333 --> 00:00:36,458 He first landed on Mars in early 2045. 4 00:00:36,875 --> 00:00:38,755 He only carried with him a few things from home 5 00:00:39,208 --> 00:00:41,708 as people told him he wouldn’t need much there. 6 00:00:41,916 --> 00:00:45,583 For here everything was new and completely different. 7 00:00:45,791 --> 00:00:46,958 A whole new life. 8 00:00:47,916 --> 00:00:52,083 Among his stuff there were one camera and one small recorder 9 00:00:52,250 --> 00:00:55,041 as he planned to make film during his free time here 10 00:00:55,583 --> 00:01:00,833 (actually, on Mars that meant most of the time). 11 00:01:01,625 --> 00:01:04,166 A documentary about life on Mars for example. 12 00:01:09,250 --> 00:01:13,291 One day he did a recording test of the sounds around where he lived. 13 00:01:13,500 --> 00:01:14,666 And this was the result: 14 00:01:26,250 --> 00:01:28,875 For a fleeting moment it reminded him of the sound of wind 15 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:31,333 rifting through a roof somewhere on Earth. 16 00:01:41,041 --> 00:01:44,250 (Speaking in the Ruc language) Back then, I was born here. 17 00:01:44,375 --> 00:01:49,125 On that day my father went hunting in the forest, my pregnant mother was at home with my three sisters. 18 00:01:49,208 --> 00:01:52,875 After she gave birth to me, she put me on this rock. 19 00:01:53,208 --> 00:02:00,083 She didn’t place me on the ground, she was afraid the ants would eat me. 20 00:02:00,375 --> 00:02:03,208 My father came back and asked for mother’s whereabouts. 21 00:02:03,250 --> 00:02:05,625 My sisters told him that mother had given birth. 22 00:02:05,708 --> 00:02:08,583 He asked "Boy or Girl?". They answered, "Girl". 23 00:02:08,625 --> 00:02:13,958 My mother asked my sisters to take the dried tree barks to wrap me up. 24 00:02:14,166 --> 00:02:22,166 We lied here for 3 nights, then went over there for 10 days. 25 00:02:23,958 --> 00:02:30,041 After 10 days, we moved out there. 26 00:02:30,208 --> 00:02:35,708 My sisters and my father slept over there. My mother and I slept here. 27 00:02:35,750 --> 00:02:41,375 And the fence was all around to protect us from tigers entering to capture the children. 28 00:02:42,625 --> 00:02:50,250 My mother stayed here for one month, then moved up over there. 29 00:02:50,666 --> 00:02:58,291 Staying there for one more month. 30 00:02:58,500 --> 00:03:03,791 Then my mother and my father went to find food in the forest. 31 00:03:03,875 --> 00:03:07,750 Only I and my sisters stayed at home. We just sit on the rock over there... 32 00:03:07,875 --> 00:03:10,333 ...until I learnt to crawl 33 00:03:10,666 --> 00:03:13,708 Crawling around the cave. 34 00:03:13,750 --> 00:03:16,208 Nowhere else to go. 35 00:03:16,458 --> 00:03:21,291 All the time we just sat inside this cave. 36 00:03:21,833 --> 00:03:27,583 When I was 2 years old, my family left for another cave to find food. 37 00:04:19,458 --> 00:04:22,458 (Speaking in H'mong) Try this one mom, it tastes really good! 38 00:04:22,625 --> 00:04:23,625 Try this. 39 00:04:23,750 --> 00:04:25,541 I’ll have the chicken neck then. 40 00:05:21,583 --> 00:05:22,833 Hello, I hear you son. 41 00:05:23,833 --> 00:05:28,166 I’m writing a script, there is this detail… 42 00:05:29,500 --> 00:05:30,875 ...Long ago when... 43 00:05:31,250 --> 00:05:33,041 Dad, can you hear me clearly? 44 00:05:33,250 --> 00:05:34,250 I’m listening. 45 00:05:35,208 --> 00:05:38,041 Back then, when we were building the house... 46 00:05:39,083 --> 00:05:41,125 Do you remember? 47 00:05:41,166 --> 00:05:43,000 - Building our family's house? - Yes. 48 00:05:43,125 --> 00:05:48,083 During that time, were we living in grandfather’s house? 49 00:05:48,250 --> 00:05:49,458 Ah, no! 50 00:05:49,583 --> 00:05:52,500 Our old house was a wooden house. 51 00:05:52,583 --> 00:05:56,791 While building the new house, we built it gradually. 52 00:05:56,875 --> 00:05:59,875 Before staying at grandfather’s house, building was already in progress. 53 00:05:59,916 --> 00:06:04,250 There were times when we were staying at grandfather's house. 54 00:06:04,291 --> 00:06:06,625 Once the house was finished we moved back home. 55 00:06:09,333 --> 00:06:11,000 How long did it take to build the house? 56 00:06:11,750 --> 00:06:15,291 That period was very difficult. 57 00:06:15,916 --> 00:06:18,208 The house took 5 months to build. 58 00:06:19,291 --> 00:06:21,208 Because there were not enough workers. 59 00:06:25,916 --> 00:06:27,666 Where are you now dad? 60 00:06:27,750 --> 00:06:29,083 I'm at home. 61 00:06:34,666 --> 00:06:35,666 Hello? 62 00:06:58,333 --> 00:07:00,500 "After many hours searching in the deep forests 63 00:07:00,541 --> 00:07:03,625 yesterday afternoon the police from Tây Trà district, Quảng Ngãi province 64 00:07:03,666 --> 00:07:07,541 have brought the father and the son, both the Kor ethnicity, back to the village." 65 00:07:07,625 --> 00:07:11,833 "It was very difficult for the militia force and the villagers to approach the father and his son." 66 00:07:11,916 --> 00:07:14,166 "Because every time they saw the people, they run away." 67 00:07:14,250 --> 00:07:18,226 "When being approached, the father and the son were still wearing the loincloths made of tree barks." 68 00:07:18,250 --> 00:07:19,541 "The son is still healthy, 69 00:07:19,625 --> 00:07:23,500 but the father needed to be carried to the village by the local force." 70 00:07:24,750 --> 00:07:31,791 "Knowing the event and with the command from the party committee, 71 00:07:32,083 --> 00:07:35,541 the volunteers, the local militia force, and the police 72 00:07:35,708 --> 00:07:40,833 went to catch them to bring them back here." 73 00:07:49,666 --> 00:07:54,583 Don’t run over there or the ghost will catch you. 74 00:07:58,125 --> 00:07:59,791 Come here. 75 00:08:02,750 --> 00:08:03,833 Come. 76 00:08:07,250 --> 00:08:08,458 Come to mama. 77 00:08:26,541 --> 00:08:27,583 Baby! 78 00:08:37,708 --> 00:08:39,750 What is it? 79 00:08:47,500 --> 00:08:49,708 Time to go home. 80 00:08:50,291 --> 00:08:52,833 Let me carry you, I’ll give you some sweets. 81 00:09:14,833 --> 00:09:17,500 Hurry or I’ll catch you. 82 00:10:11,125 --> 00:10:13,083 How old are you this year? 83 00:10:13,500 --> 00:10:16,416 (Speaking in the Kor language) 84 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:34,666 He said he came down here over 4 years. 85 00:10:35,458 --> 00:10:41,458 His age is 48 or 49. He can’t remember clearly. 86 00:10:41,750 --> 00:10:45,208 How many years did you live with your father in the forest? 87 00:10:52,375 --> 00:10:56,666 Over 40 years. 41.42. 88 00:11:24,375 --> 00:11:26,083 "According to the villagers, 89 00:11:26,166 --> 00:11:30,625 over 40 years ago when the country was still in the war, his house was bombed." 90 00:11:30,666 --> 00:11:32,625 "Many of his family members died." 91 00:11:32,750 --> 00:11:35,892 "Under this terrible shock, he carried his infant son and run away." 92 00:11:35,916 --> 00:11:39,833 "Few days ago when some villagers were farming in the forest, they saw the father and the son." 93 00:11:39,916 --> 00:11:41,956 "So they informed the local authority of the news." 94 00:11:45,541 --> 00:11:50,166 "Due to their isolated life, they only can babble some words in the Kor language." 95 00:11:52,958 --> 00:11:58,958 "How could they survive in such a severe environment of the deep forests for more than 40 years?" 96 00:11:59,041 --> 00:12:01,208 "That's the question many people asked." 97 00:13:23,375 --> 00:13:26,958 Back then, in the forest most of the time he just ate, then slept. 98 00:13:34,208 --> 00:13:37,041 Can you point your finger to your old home? 99 00:13:58,541 --> 00:14:03,375 Growing up, I lived in a cave. I don’t know since when we started to live in caves. 100 00:14:03,416 --> 00:14:08,333 Apparently from our ancestors' time, we were already living in caves. 101 00:14:08,750 --> 00:14:13,333 When hiding from the Americans, we creeped into any caves near and far. 102 00:14:13,916 --> 00:14:15,791 But with the habitable caves... 103 00:14:16,208 --> 00:14:17,875 with many people living in them... 104 00:14:17,958 --> 00:14:23,500 we had to find caves far from them, otherwise there wasn't enough meat to eat. 105 00:14:23,958 --> 00:14:27,833 Each person covered a mountain and a forest. 106 00:14:28,958 --> 00:14:35,375 In May and June, when there are many honey bees 107 00:14:35,500 --> 00:14:41,000 I along with the children, or my aunts and uncles, visit our cave 108 00:14:41,083 --> 00:14:42,833 for one or two nights. 109 00:14:42,875 --> 00:14:44,166 Then go back to the village. 110 00:14:46,375 --> 00:14:52,208 The cave I stayed in was covered up all around like a beautiful roof. 111 00:14:52,666 --> 00:14:54,458 A place for the fire. 112 00:14:54,666 --> 00:14:59,125 Inside there are rocks for lying down. 113 00:14:59,708 --> 00:15:02,541 A cave is like a normal house. 114 00:15:59,666 --> 00:16:05,375 He said in the forest they built their house on a tree. 115 00:16:05,458 --> 00:16:09,750 There were four pillars piercing through the tree. 116 00:16:09,791 --> 00:16:11,416 Several columns were erected. 117 00:16:11,500 --> 00:16:12,708 Then the roof was made. 118 00:16:12,750 --> 00:16:14,166 It was their tree house. 119 00:16:14,250 --> 00:16:16,416 How high was the tree? 120 00:16:23,791 --> 00:16:28,125 From the ground up, if measured in meters, it is about 6 or 7m. 121 00:16:29,416 --> 00:16:31,833 Plus the roof makes it 8, 9m. 122 00:19:10,291 --> 00:19:11,559 (Speaking in the Ruc language) The soup’s too salty. 123 00:19:11,583 --> 00:19:12,875 Yes, too salty. 124 00:19:13,916 --> 00:19:15,708 Now where to get water after meal then? 125 00:19:27,958 --> 00:19:29,208 It's too spicy. 126 00:19:29,333 --> 00:19:31,083 Will it rain tonight? 127 00:19:31,208 --> 00:19:33,125 So tomorrow there will be water to drink. 128 00:19:34,333 --> 00:19:39,125 That day my father hunted a monkey. 129 00:19:39,208 --> 00:19:41,458 My father grilled it. 130 00:19:41,666 --> 00:19:49,666 My sisters and I took the sticks to scratch the monkey's hair for it to burn completely. 131 00:19:51,166 --> 00:19:56,500 My father chopped it into pieces and then cooked it. 132 00:19:56,916 --> 00:19:59,000 The whole family was eating. 133 00:19:59,416 --> 00:20:02,416 A group of soldiers came. 134 00:20:02,583 --> 00:20:05,958 I and my sisters all ran away and hid behind the rocks. 135 00:20:06,250 --> 00:20:10,708 My father called, "Come out to eat, then go to the village with them." 136 00:20:10,958 --> 00:20:12,208 I didn't want to. 137 00:20:13,250 --> 00:20:17,750 They gave candies for us to stop crying. 138 00:20:17,833 --> 00:20:20,083 But we didn't dare to take them. 139 00:20:20,166 --> 00:20:24,416 They asked my parents to call us out to make the acquaintance. 140 00:20:24,500 --> 00:20:27,125 But us sisters still didn't dare. 141 00:20:27,250 --> 00:20:29,166 My parents gave us the candies. 142 00:20:29,291 --> 00:20:31,916 We tried them and found them very sweet. 143 00:20:32,083 --> 00:20:35,750 We asked our parents, "What are these thing, so tasty?" 144 00:20:36,208 --> 00:20:42,416 Then the soldiers said, "Come, we still have a lot of candies for you." 145 00:20:42,750 --> 00:20:46,791 Since then, we knew how candies tasted like. 146 00:20:47,833 --> 00:20:52,208 I regretted the monkey meat. We had to throw it away. 147 00:20:53,416 --> 00:20:55,333 I cried all the way walking to the village. 148 00:21:17,458 --> 00:21:20,291 The Ruc people were learning how to cultivate rice paddies. 149 00:21:20,666 --> 00:21:24,291 From a far distance behind them it was the barracks of Border Defence Force. 150 00:21:24,833 --> 00:21:26,291 A soldier told him, 151 00:21:26,541 --> 00:21:30,333 "Teaching the Ruc people how to grow rice is helping them to evolve 1000 years faster." 152 00:21:33,416 --> 00:21:35,333 So displacing them from their caves 153 00:21:35,416 --> 00:21:38,833 and then relocating them into the identical yellow-brick houses 154 00:21:39,375 --> 00:21:42,250 was also helping them to evolve 1000 years faster? 155 00:21:52,416 --> 00:21:55,250 What was your food in the cave? 156 00:21:55,666 --> 00:21:56,666 Eat “giúc”. 157 00:21:57,583 --> 00:21:58,583 Eat “mài” yams... 158 00:21:59,958 --> 00:22:00,958 Eat the “cà bạc” tree. 159 00:22:01,083 --> 00:22:02,291 Eat the “ruồi” tree. 160 00:22:02,791 --> 00:22:03,833 Eat crabs. 161 00:22:03,875 --> 00:22:05,625 Eat frogs down the streams. 162 00:22:06,625 --> 00:22:08,625 Eat birds. 163 00:22:09,166 --> 00:22:11,000 Monkeys and boars. 164 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,708 Make traps for animals. 165 00:22:17,125 --> 00:22:19,750 Wild pennywort tastes real nice with garlic! 166 00:22:20,625 --> 00:22:23,250 I’ll bring home a bunch of these. 167 00:22:23,708 --> 00:22:26,392 What kind of vegetable got them all hospitalized when vising the cave? 168 00:22:26,416 --> 00:22:28,250 - Who? - Mrs. Tới! 169 00:22:30,375 --> 00:22:33,958 Must be the wrong thing she ate, not the wild veggies! 170 00:22:35,250 --> 00:22:38,083 So is it from pesticides then? 171 00:22:40,166 --> 00:22:42,958 But who in the world sprays that in the forest? 172 00:22:44,958 --> 00:22:52,125 That day she picked up some veggies, and cooked them with pork for the whole family. 173 00:22:52,250 --> 00:22:55,583 The whole family got hospitalized. 174 00:22:55,708 --> 00:22:59,000 But we eat these wild plants all the time! 175 00:22:59,166 --> 00:23:03,000 - Maybe they got poisoned by the pork? - The pork was contaminated. 176 00:27:21,583 --> 00:27:22,583 When I die 177 00:27:23,666 --> 00:27:25,666 please make me a tomb house 178 00:27:26,625 --> 00:27:28,291 where my body can rot 179 00:27:29,041 --> 00:27:31,125 and my soul can have a shelter 180 00:27:31,833 --> 00:27:35,750 like the souls of Jrai people in their tomb houses. 181 00:27:38,458 --> 00:27:41,958 But as a part of the majority of Kinh people, 182 00:27:42,666 --> 00:27:47,583 will I be admitted to a tomb house of the Montagnards? 183 00:27:48,333 --> 00:27:49,541 In the realm of the dead 184 00:27:49,708 --> 00:27:51,125 will it still matter 185 00:27:51,541 --> 00:27:53,708 the languages and the colors of skins? 186 00:27:56,833 --> 00:28:00,541 Years ago he asked a Jrai elder about death. 187 00:28:01,500 --> 00:28:03,541 “What would we do if somebody dies?" 188 00:28:03,791 --> 00:28:06,208 "We would cut down trees to make coffins." 189 00:28:06,291 --> 00:28:12,041 "In our village a coffin could contain 3, 4, 5, 6 or even 10 people." 190 00:28:12,291 --> 00:28:15,767 "If there are not enough coffins, then the bodies would be put inside only one coffin, 191 00:28:15,791 --> 00:28:18,875 one body after another like meat stuffed into a pot." 192 00:28:20,125 --> 00:28:22,083 "Then we bury them." 193 00:28:22,916 --> 00:28:29,708 "We worship once at the end of every month." 194 00:28:29,875 --> 00:28:33,583 "Besides, we go to visit and feed them every day 195 00:28:33,666 --> 00:28:38,958 on mornings, noons, or afternoons that would depend on our available time." 196 00:28:39,083 --> 00:28:44,250 "This could last for 2, 3 or even 10 years. That totally depends on us." 197 00:28:44,291 --> 00:28:49,083 When we no longer feel sorrowful and miss the dead, then we can quit visiting them.” 198 00:28:55,208 --> 00:29:01,872 (Speaking in Jrai) Just the day before, left you to your work, but work you did not. 199 00:29:02,083 --> 00:29:08,083 Why did you have to end your life, just out of jail, yet you drank the poison and passed away 200 00:29:08,750 --> 00:29:12,291 and broke your parents’ heart with grief. 201 00:29:24,916 --> 00:29:28,833 For the Montagnards life was a continuous train of images 202 00:29:28,916 --> 00:29:31,208 like in a film roll. 203 00:29:31,583 --> 00:29:32,708 It was said that 204 00:29:33,208 --> 00:29:36,958 an aggrieved mother at the death of her son 205 00:29:37,500 --> 00:29:41,416 when she saw his images projected on the screen, she broke into tears. 206 00:29:41,500 --> 00:29:43,416 As she thought he was still alive. 207 00:29:43,541 --> 00:29:45,750 She asked her son back to her. 208 00:29:46,875 --> 00:29:49,666 Everything visible for the Montagnards was called ‘Rup’, 209 00:29:49,750 --> 00:29:50,875 the body. 210 00:29:51,250 --> 00:29:52,791 The invisible was ‘Soan’, 211 00:29:53,083 --> 00:29:54,083 the spirit. 212 00:29:55,333 --> 00:29:56,541 Rup and Soan 213 00:29:57,166 --> 00:29:58,750 Life and Death 214 00:29:59,208 --> 00:30:00,583 Day and Night 215 00:30:00,916 --> 00:30:02,750 Positive and Negative 216 00:30:04,750 --> 00:30:08,000 A tomb house was like the negative house for the living. 217 00:30:08,333 --> 00:30:10,250 A spirit had no size. 218 00:30:11,041 --> 00:30:13,000 A tiny space in a tomb house 219 00:30:13,125 --> 00:30:17,375 was where the dead continue living through different images. 220 00:30:19,541 --> 00:30:21,833 In Vietnamese, his mother tongue, 221 00:30:22,541 --> 00:30:24,958 'Negative' also meant 'the realm of the death'. 222 00:30:25,208 --> 00:30:27,500 'Positive' was 'the world of the living'. 223 00:30:28,041 --> 00:30:30,666 A person who came from the negative realm 224 00:30:30,708 --> 00:30:32,708 was a resurrected soul. 225 00:30:35,075 --> 00:30:36,541 Negative Images 226 00:30:37,125 --> 00:30:38,653 Images of Death 227 00:30:39,375 --> 00:30:41,000 Positive Images 228 00:30:41,500 --> 00:30:42,958 Images of Life 229 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:11,000 Dad, 230 00:37:11,333 --> 00:37:15,000 I’m calling you from Ha Giang, the far north of Vietnam, 231 00:37:16,375 --> 00:37:18,958 1600 km away from home. 232 00:37:20,333 --> 00:37:23,666 I’m out here searching for characters for my upcoming film. 233 00:37:24,958 --> 00:37:29,500 View of the streets and buildings are more or less the same as our hometown. 234 00:37:30,291 --> 00:37:34,416 Except for H’Mong’s houses hanging over the high mountain slopes. 235 00:37:35,625 --> 00:37:39,250 Those houses are all made of mud taken from the mountains themselves. 236 00:37:39,375 --> 00:37:41,958 The floors are also solid earth. 237 00:37:42,708 --> 00:37:45,958 The people living inside, like the deceased, 238 00:37:46,250 --> 00:37:48,208 are all protected by earth. 239 00:37:55,500 --> 00:37:57,916 The bare feet walking on the earthen floor 240 00:37:57,958 --> 00:38:00,083 will know the rain from the dampness 241 00:38:00,291 --> 00:38:02,958 and the summer from the warmth in the ground. 242 00:38:22,875 --> 00:38:26,875 On the bus someone was listening to “Nostalgia” sung by Thái Thanh. 243 00:38:27,375 --> 00:38:28,750 Do you listen to her songs? 244 00:38:29,041 --> 00:38:32,083 When I’m at home all you put on play is Abba. 245 00:38:33,583 --> 00:38:36,666 Thái Thanh is a much-renowned singer in the South Vietnam 246 00:38:36,750 --> 00:38:39,625 before the war ends in 1975. 247 00:38:40,708 --> 00:38:44,333 'Nostalgia' means to return home with pain. 248 00:38:45,333 --> 00:38:50,291 Have you known that the new government banned Thái Thanh from singing after 1975? 249 00:38:50,791 --> 00:38:54,541 Having arrived in America in 1985, 250 00:38:55,458 --> 00:38:58,333 at her very first performance after more than 10 years of silence 251 00:38:58,416 --> 00:38:59,958 she sang this song. 252 00:39:00,791 --> 00:39:03,291 In the original version, the song ends with 253 00:39:03,583 --> 00:39:04,583 "home" 254 00:39:04,833 --> 00:39:05,833 "home" 255 00:39:06,250 --> 00:39:09,541 But here she bursted into singing: 256 00:39:09,625 --> 00:39:11,041 "far away from home" 257 00:39:23,291 --> 00:39:25,583 She broke into tears at the end of the song. 258 00:39:25,833 --> 00:39:29,833 Has she perhaps realized at that very moment 259 00:39:30,208 --> 00:39:32,958 she was a homeless in that foreign land? 260 00:39:45,708 --> 00:39:48,791 His childhood house was just off the main road. 261 00:39:48,916 --> 00:39:53,625 It was a slim three-story house with the typical urban architecture of Vietnam. 262 00:39:54,958 --> 00:39:57,250 He and his brothers all slept on the 3rd floor. 263 00:39:57,750 --> 00:40:01,250 The trucks that ran through the nights would make the floor 264 00:40:01,291 --> 00:40:03,375 and the glass windows vibrate. 265 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:07,666 Along with these were the honkings that would pierce the ears like needles. 266 00:40:08,708 --> 00:40:11,333 They were disturbances to a child’s dreams. 267 00:40:13,333 --> 00:40:14,500 But at this moment 268 00:40:15,166 --> 00:40:16,583 on Mars... 269 00:40:16,750 --> 00:40:18,750 he missed the traffic noises. 270 00:40:21,708 --> 00:40:25,750 They became rhythms reminiscent of lost dreams. 271 00:40:32,125 --> 00:40:35,583 His nights on Mars passed in silence. 272 00:40:36,375 --> 00:40:38,708 So silent that he felt heavy. 273 00:40:44,875 --> 00:40:47,000 At 3 or 4 pm... 274 00:40:47,791 --> 00:40:52,000 the sunlight from the west would be shining down from the window at the top of the stairs. 275 00:40:52,166 --> 00:40:56,958 Every time he looked up, he saw countless specks of dust floating in the light. 276 00:40:58,166 --> 00:41:01,791 The small particles of dust were like stars on a galaxy. 277 00:41:02,125 --> 00:41:03,875 This galaxy of memory dust 278 00:41:03,916 --> 00:41:07,291 would vanish with just a light wind. 279 00:41:44,250 --> 00:41:50,416 One day the young Montagnards decided to cross the border into Cambodia. 280 00:41:51,750 --> 00:41:56,166 They crossed the forest with just small backpacks and a handful of clothes, 281 00:41:56,583 --> 00:41:58,083 but the most crucial things 282 00:41:58,500 --> 00:42:01,416 were always guarded by their hands: 283 00:42:01,708 --> 00:42:02,875 their passports. 284 00:42:04,833 --> 00:42:06,875 Trapped in the arid forests 285 00:42:07,583 --> 00:42:10,583 they were waiting for the day they could arrive a third country. 286 00:42:11,083 --> 00:42:14,125 That new land might lie somewhere over the sea. 287 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:17,083 Somewhere over the rainbow. 288 00:42:18,833 --> 00:42:22,750 The boats of the past and present have all sunk to the bottom of the ocean. 289 00:42:24,375 --> 00:42:27,375 Wandering souls adrifted in the endless ocean. 290 00:42:29,250 --> 00:42:33,583 None would build tomb houses for these Montagnards. 291 00:42:34,333 --> 00:42:37,875 None would come to pray and give them food every day. 292 00:42:39,041 --> 00:42:42,291 They were far away from the houses of the dead of their ancestors. 293 00:42:43,500 --> 00:42:46,166 Would there be an invisible island amidst ocean 294 00:42:46,833 --> 00:42:49,000 where the souls could come to rest? 295 00:42:50,416 --> 00:42:52,541 Those people, anonymous in life, 296 00:42:52,916 --> 00:42:54,666 and unknown in death. 297 00:43:24,125 --> 00:43:28,625 O mother! Fled through the forest, leaving us behind, o mother! 298 00:43:28,791 --> 00:43:35,916 Remember us still, mother! Our little brother working in the yard, o mother! 299 00:43:36,083 --> 00:43:42,916 Up our house’s terrace, o mother! with your utensils and pots and pans, o mother! 300 00:43:45,750 --> 00:43:53,750 Down tending your paddy field, o mother! feed the shrimps and fishes in your stead, mother! 301 00:43:54,416 --> 00:44:00,875 Mother! Have your time with us brought no joy, now things unsaid and kind words unspoken, mother! 302 00:44:01,041 --> 00:44:04,958 Yet so far from us you have gone, o mother! 303 00:44:45,708 --> 00:44:49,750 He found the archival footage of "the Village Resettlement Program" 304 00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:52,708 recorded by American soldiers in 1967 305 00:44:53,125 --> 00:44:56,166 in Quang Ngai, also homeland of "the jungle man". 306 00:44:56,750 --> 00:45:00,333 The soldiers came here not only with guns but also with cameras. 307 00:45:01,416 --> 00:45:04,208 The filmmaker soldiers 308 00:45:04,291 --> 00:45:09,333 were recording people moving from their home to the resettled houses 309 00:45:09,541 --> 00:45:12,333 on the pretext of their own safety. 310 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:15,416 Those abandoned houses had to be burnt 311 00:45:15,458 --> 00:45:17,166 to prevent the Communists from using them. 312 00:45:19,083 --> 00:45:22,416 But was it not that good excuses were always used 313 00:45:22,500 --> 00:45:24,208 to make people homeless? 314 00:45:27,750 --> 00:45:29,666 And 50 years later 315 00:45:30,041 --> 00:45:32,416 he also came to this place with a camera. 316 00:45:33,041 --> 00:45:34,041 "For what?" 317 00:45:34,750 --> 00:45:36,291 He wondered. 318 00:45:38,250 --> 00:45:40,333 To take away other people’s stories? 319 00:45:40,416 --> 00:45:42,416 To intrude their private spaces 320 00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:44,791 and strip them the right for anonymity? 321 00:45:44,833 --> 00:45:49,041 He always felt the tension every time pointing the camera at them, saying: 322 00:45:49,541 --> 00:45:50,541 "Shoot!" 323 00:45:51,625 --> 00:45:56,208 Then he picked a title for the film to stamp his ownership over these images and stories. 324 00:45:56,791 --> 00:46:01,583 But how could he own what inherently never belonged to him? 325 00:46:01,625 --> 00:46:04,750 Who was he to speak on the people's behalf? 326 00:46:06,750 --> 00:46:10,458 The camera had rolled but he and the cinematographer weren’t aware of that. 327 00:46:11,750 --> 00:46:14,125 When seeing this during editing 328 00:46:14,625 --> 00:46:17,875 he recalled a similar scene from a Agnes Varda's film. 329 00:46:18,916 --> 00:46:22,416 In that scene she too forgot turning off the camera as walking. 330 00:46:23,125 --> 00:46:24,625 She put it romantically as: 331 00:46:24,666 --> 00:46:26,125 "The Dance of The Lens Cap" 332 00:46:28,208 --> 00:46:29,791 Not as romantic as she was, 333 00:46:30,666 --> 00:46:34,916 seeing this he only thought about the burnt feet of film. 334 00:46:36,791 --> 00:46:39,166 The negative film had died 335 00:46:39,250 --> 00:46:41,708 so that the death of film could be visible. 336 00:46:43,041 --> 00:46:47,208 The movements akin to the breathless breathes of film on its last moment. 337 00:46:58,875 --> 00:47:02,041 His tree house is no longer there, They burnt it all. 338 00:47:08,833 --> 00:47:11,875 All burnt. Only the coal left. 339 00:48:30,583 --> 00:48:34,500 My father went hunting and my mother stayed at home. 340 00:48:34,666 --> 00:48:39,333 I followed my mother to find crabs in the small streams... 341 00:48:39,583 --> 00:48:44,541 then we went to cut down the big trees and brought them home to eat. 342 00:48:45,208 --> 00:48:48,958 It’s not like the children today that go to school two times a day. 343 00:48:49,041 --> 00:48:52,958 There are no schools in the forest. 344 00:49:06,291 --> 00:49:10,291 I came down to the village at age 11, then went to school at age 13. 345 00:49:10,625 --> 00:49:15,291 I couldn’t read the alphabet. Didn't understand anything my teacher taught. 346 00:49:15,750 --> 00:49:22,958 At age 14 I could babble and pronounce words like O, A. 347 00:49:23,375 --> 00:49:28,291 My teachers gave me books, held my hands to teach me how to write. 348 00:49:28,458 --> 00:49:31,351 My teachers gave me clothes to wear. 349 00:49:31,375 --> 00:49:35,583 I got along with friends. And slowly I wasn't afraid anymore. 350 00:50:45,166 --> 00:50:53,166 In the past, at this rock here is where us four sisters would play everyday. 351 00:50:54,583 --> 00:51:01,333 Everyday once eating is done, we would get together to climb up the rock and slide down. 352 00:51:01,958 --> 00:51:05,875 Climb up and slide down. 353 00:51:06,291 --> 00:51:09,583 Sit here and holler at each other to go out and play... 354 00:51:10,166 --> 00:51:16,541 “Come here and play! When dad comes home, there’ll be monkey meat to eat!" 355 00:51:16,833 --> 00:51:22,833 We quarreled then fell and the little ones cried. 356 00:51:22,958 --> 00:51:25,083 Keep going up and down like this. 357 00:51:25,416 --> 00:51:31,125 The other cave had no rocks like this one to play with anymore. 358 00:51:34,041 --> 00:51:41,291 We were playing like this and all yelled, "It's so good!" 359 00:51:45,541 --> 00:51:51,250 My big sister would say, "You’re older, don’t make her cry. 360 00:51:51,583 --> 00:51:58,625 "Sisters play together in harmony. Do not scuffle with each other." 361 00:53:03,791 --> 00:53:06,083 You have grey hair now. 362 00:53:06,125 --> 00:53:10,625 My hair used to be really long then, down to my feet. 363 00:53:11,208 --> 00:53:13,916 My mother-in-law’s hair was also long just like yours. 364 00:53:14,041 --> 00:53:16,291 We all had really long hair back then. 365 00:53:17,916 --> 00:53:21,708 My sister and brother have long hair but not me. 366 00:53:22,375 --> 00:53:25,416 I and another sister have curly hair. 367 00:53:35,666 --> 00:53:37,250 It is itchy! 368 00:53:37,916 --> 00:53:38,958 Sweaty... 369 00:53:40,416 --> 00:53:42,250 ...louses. 370 00:54:17,208 --> 00:54:18,208 Dad, 371 00:54:18,250 --> 00:54:20,250 I’m calling you from Mars 372 00:54:21,250 --> 00:54:24,000 54,6 million kilometers away from home. 373 00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:27,208 The emptiness found in nature here, 374 00:54:27,375 --> 00:54:29,708 its endless unfolding of red deserts 375 00:54:30,083 --> 00:54:32,416 interspersed by intermittent memories. 376 00:54:32,791 --> 00:54:36,166 Those memories that stopped before the beginning of the photographs. 377 00:54:37,375 --> 00:54:39,041 How old was I then? 378 00:54:39,291 --> 00:54:41,083 Maybe 4 or 5 years old. 379 00:54:42,500 --> 00:54:48,041 There were the photographs of me standing next to a pond in a pagoda during Lunar New Year. 380 00:54:48,333 --> 00:54:49,666 I asked myself about 381 00:54:50,458 --> 00:54:53,166 what had happened before a 4-year old me? 382 00:54:53,833 --> 00:54:56,666 Not a single photograph for that period. 383 00:54:57,416 --> 00:55:00,041 I can't recall a single thing during that period. 384 00:55:01,083 --> 00:55:02,416 Yet strangely 385 00:55:02,750 --> 00:55:06,750 she could recall all happenings when she was just 2 years old, 386 00:55:06,833 --> 00:55:08,166 even prior to that. 387 00:55:08,291 --> 00:55:11,833 Even the stone slab where her mother gave birth to her. 388 00:55:14,833 --> 00:55:19,708 Multiple times I asked her if she were talking about her own, not someone else’s stories. 389 00:55:20,958 --> 00:55:24,833 Perhaps a misunderstanding due to linguistic differences? 390 00:55:25,500 --> 00:55:29,541 Her Ruc’s language is spoken only, not written. 391 00:55:30,041 --> 00:55:32,416 Only around 500 people use it. 392 00:55:33,583 --> 00:55:37,666 The Ruc people was found out in early 1950s. 393 00:55:38,208 --> 00:55:39,750 A vulnerable community. 394 00:55:41,291 --> 00:55:44,666 Their language is on the verge of disappearing at any moment. 395 00:55:47,375 --> 00:55:49,541 (Speaking Vietnamese) 396 00:55:49,583 --> 00:55:51,041 Speak Ruc please. 397 00:55:52,500 --> 00:55:57,375 She confirmed that it was herself she was talking about. 398 00:55:59,291 --> 00:56:03,000 Perhaps the difference is not about their or our language, 399 00:56:03,500 --> 00:56:08,291 but the way of preserving memories between us and them Ruc people. 400 00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:11,750 Our memories depend too much on images: 401 00:56:12,291 --> 00:56:13,291 Photography. 402 00:56:14,166 --> 00:56:15,291 As for them, 403 00:56:15,666 --> 00:56:19,875 their memories are stories filled with imagination. 404 00:56:24,208 --> 00:56:30,833 That day, my parents went far away to find food, so they couldn’t come home. 405 00:56:31,041 --> 00:56:36,625 At home there were only us four sisters. 406 00:56:38,333 --> 00:56:43,208 All four sisters ate "mài" yams and then went to sleep. 407 00:56:43,666 --> 00:56:47,541 My third sister asked "Do our parents come home?" 408 00:56:47,625 --> 00:56:53,916 My oldest sister told us not to worry about that, we should just go to sleep. 409 00:56:54,125 --> 00:56:58,458 Then we all lied on the dirt ground, trying to sleep. 410 00:56:58,625 --> 00:57:04,708 We hadn’t slept long when we heard a ghost moving around us. 411 00:57:04,791 --> 00:57:09,625 We weren’t sure if it was a ghost or not but it was very frightening. 412 00:57:10,083 --> 00:57:13,666 We all cried and hugged each other tightly. 413 00:57:14,083 --> 00:57:17,125 Then my oldest sister told all of us to stop crying. 414 00:57:17,208 --> 00:57:22,166 She reminded us that our parents said if we were home alone and heard anything unusual, 415 00:57:22,375 --> 00:57:25,083 we should burn the firewood to light up the place. 416 00:57:28,458 --> 00:57:34,625 Even the snakes or the tigers who saw and sniffed the fire wouldn’t even dare to enter. 417 00:57:34,958 --> 00:57:41,125 My oldest sister took all of the firewood and burned them up brightly. 418 00:57:41,208 --> 00:57:45,625 Then us three sisters slept well while she waited for our parents to return. 419 00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:08,166 The house is different from the cave. 420 00:58:09,541 --> 00:58:14,916 Sitting in the cave, the air is different. 421 00:58:15,500 --> 00:58:19,416 It is cold and freezing. 422 00:58:20,375 --> 00:58:23,125 At the house, it is airier. 423 00:58:24,125 --> 00:58:30,250 In the cave, it is pitch dark with no electric lights. 424 00:58:30,375 --> 00:58:32,125 Mosquitoes everywhere. 425 00:58:32,750 --> 00:58:34,416 No blankets. 426 00:58:34,791 --> 00:58:38,375 But you and everyone sometimes visit the caves. Why? 427 00:58:39,750 --> 00:58:43,333 I remember. I miss the place where I lived. 428 00:58:43,416 --> 00:58:46,041 If I can still walk, then I try to visit it again. 429 00:58:46,208 --> 00:58:49,958 When I can’t go anymore, then so be it. 430 00:58:50,333 --> 00:58:55,000 There are old people who visited their caves, once they returned the village, they died. 431 00:58:55,208 --> 00:58:57,250 Because of forestsickness. 432 01:00:49,083 --> 01:00:51,875 Jade Rabbit 433 01:02:13,458 --> 01:02:17,500 There was a 6 or 7-meter-tall tree. 434 01:02:18,583 --> 01:02:22,458 On the tree, there was a small house where he and his father lived. 435 01:02:23,583 --> 01:02:25,500 A fire burned everything to the ground. 436 01:04:24,666 --> 01:04:27,000 This is the pomelo tree that he and his father planted. 437 01:04:51,416 --> 01:04:57,000 His father died in 2017, 4 years after he had been brought out of the forest. 438 01:05:16,750 --> 01:05:24,750 "Ghosts, don't call us, don't come close to us, don't love us anymore. From now on, we will not bring you food and water anymore. 439 01:05:49,416 --> 01:05:57,416 If you want to eat meat, please ask the God of the Moon. From now on, it has ended, as the m'nang leaves separate from the tree." 440 01:05:58,958 --> 01:06:02,041 - the prayers at the Leaving Tomb ceremony. 441 01:06:57,916 --> 01:07:00,291 Are you fine at home? 442 01:07:06,333 --> 01:07:08,541 Have you had any medicine yet? 443 01:07:10,791 --> 01:07:12,958 Are you ill? 444 01:07:16,666 --> 01:07:17,875 Feeling better? 445 01:07:19,375 --> 01:07:21,250 Anyone sleeping with the baby? 446 01:07:22,291 --> 01:07:25,041 Or sings him any lullaby? 447 01:07:26,166 --> 01:07:27,833 His dad came back? 448 01:07:30,750 --> 01:07:32,583 Why not drink your medicine yesterday? 449 01:07:53,750 --> 01:07:54,375 Hello! 450 01:07:54,500 --> 01:07:58,333 I remember in the past that you used to catch crickets to eat, right? 451 01:07:58,833 --> 01:07:59,833 Yes, that is correct. 452 01:07:59,875 --> 01:08:02,708 I went onto the farm land to catch the crickets. 453 01:08:02,791 --> 01:08:06,333 I would tie 10, 15 of them onto a blade of grass and bring them home. 454 01:08:07,833 --> 01:08:11,250 How did you cook them? 455 01:08:12,125 --> 01:08:14,666 I washed them first, 456 01:08:14,916 --> 01:08:20,875 then put them in a pan to give them a little golden color. 457 01:08:21,250 --> 01:08:25,666 After that I put peanuts into the crickets’ belly. 458 01:08:25,791 --> 01:08:28,000 Then I fried them again with pig fat. 459 01:08:28,041 --> 01:08:32,583 Only pig fat because there was no cooking oil in the past. 460 01:08:32,958 --> 01:08:34,791 I fried until the crickets were swollen up. 461 01:08:34,833 --> 01:08:36,125 It was very delicious. 462 01:08:43,958 --> 01:08:46,416 I remember I used to hide inside the wardrobe 463 01:08:46,541 --> 01:08:49,666 to eat an ice cream or an apple. 464 01:08:50,875 --> 01:08:54,666 The rays of light went inside through the small holes on the door. 465 01:08:55,333 --> 01:08:57,375 I heard my parents calling me, 466 01:08:58,208 --> 01:09:03,375 Through the holes I saw them walking by trying to find me. 467 01:09:03,458 --> 01:09:04,958 But I didn’t reply. 468 01:09:05,875 --> 01:09:09,041 After a while I silently sneaked out 469 01:09:09,291 --> 01:09:11,250 and appeared in front of my parents. 470 01:09:11,791 --> 01:09:14,625 They had no idea where I had been. 471 01:09:15,625 --> 01:09:16,666 They didn't know that 472 01:09:17,208 --> 01:09:19,208 I had been in my cave. 473 01:09:20,291 --> 01:09:21,416 Without photographed images 474 01:09:21,458 --> 01:09:23,250 what would become my memories? 475 01:12:14,541 --> 01:12:16,750 All the males, females and children 476 01:12:16,875 --> 01:12:19,916 one day decided to leave their caves. 477 01:12:20,791 --> 01:12:23,958 They were curious about what lay beyond the jungle. 478 01:12:25,125 --> 01:12:27,250 With bare feet they crossed the jungle. 479 01:12:28,791 --> 01:12:32,500 The freezing nights and jungle rains didn’t slow them down. 480 01:12:33,500 --> 01:12:37,333 Large beasts were hunted to relieve their hungers, 481 01:12:37,416 --> 01:12:40,500 and leftover meats were preserved for long days to come. 482 01:12:41,958 --> 01:12:42,958 Finally, 483 01:12:43,625 --> 01:12:47,458 the males, females and children took their first steps outside the jungle. 484 01:12:48,166 --> 01:12:51,125 The vast plains met their eyes, 485 01:12:51,416 --> 01:12:54,125 and the horizon lay at the end of earth. 486 01:12:54,916 --> 01:12:56,083 Sea. 487 01:12:57,750 --> 01:13:00,291 One person after another 488 01:13:00,708 --> 01:13:04,250 and finally all turned around, looked at where they had left. 489 01:13:04,500 --> 01:13:08,000 They saw the distant lofty mountain ranges shrouded in clouds. 490 01:13:08,250 --> 01:13:12,375 They knew those mountains had been their home. 491 01:13:12,750 --> 01:13:13,750 Some cried 492 01:13:13,833 --> 01:13:15,750 but they would never return. 493 01:13:16,208 --> 01:13:19,875 The plains were to be their new home. 494 01:13:21,916 --> 01:13:25,333 But their hands, still warm with the memories from their cave home, 495 01:13:25,375 --> 01:13:28,250 made the roofs with shape like the mountain top, 496 01:13:28,333 --> 01:13:32,875 so they could still return to their childhood home in their daydreams. 497 01:14:29,625 --> 01:14:33,583 Coming back from the cave, last night while sleeping here, I couldn’t sleep well. 498 01:14:33,916 --> 01:14:38,625 It wasn’t until four in the morning that I was able to sleep. 499 01:14:39,500 --> 01:14:40,791 Slept at 4 A.M. 500 01:14:41,041 --> 01:14:45,875 I slept better in the cave. 501 01:14:46,750 --> 01:14:48,333 More comfortably. 502 01:14:48,500 --> 01:14:51,083 Here it is noisy. I couldn't sleep. 503 01:14:52,458 --> 01:14:53,916 I keep thinking 504 01:14:54,208 --> 01:14:57,708 in the past there were a lot of food in the cave. 505 01:14:57,916 --> 01:15:01,500 Such as "giuc', monkey meat, so on. 506 01:15:01,541 --> 01:15:03,458 Now when I return, I do not have those anymore. 507 01:15:03,541 --> 01:15:06,916 I feel uncomfortable and discontent. 508 01:15:07,708 --> 01:15:08,916 I keep remembering. 509 01:19:46,083 --> 01:19:49,416 "Cave" in our native Ruc language is "Kop". 510 01:19:52,500 --> 01:19:55,875 It means "Living in the cave". 511 01:21:21,375 --> 01:21:24,708 He decided not to complete the film. 512 01:21:24,958 --> 01:21:27,041 He put the camera back in the storeroom. 513 01:21:27,833 --> 01:21:32,041 Here on Mars nobody wanted to watch film anymore. 514 01:21:32,500 --> 01:21:34,916 It was a new life here. 515 01:21:35,041 --> 01:21:37,833 Cinema had become the joy of the past. 516 01:21:38,166 --> 01:21:42,625 A 54.6 million-kilometer past back in the home on Earth. 517 01:21:43,958 --> 01:21:44,958 "Home" 518 01:21:45,708 --> 01:21:47,443 "Far away from home." 519 01:22:11,250 --> 01:22:15,642 "Just after a few weeks in space, we had tremendous difficulties recollecting... 520 01:22:15,666 --> 01:22:22,083 the smell of the grasses, the damp rains in the summer, the snow dust, the faces of our family and friends... 521 01:22:22,125 --> 01:22:27,333 ...All of them only reappeared in our dreams." Pyotr Klimuk, the USSR cosmonaut.