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First They Killed My Father Page #10
- TV-MA
- Year:
- 2017
- 136 min
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42.
KIM:
Pa, someone was in the container
last night.
Pa checks the container. He considers-
PA:
Maybe some rats got into it.
Pa wraps it up tight and moves it higher.
Pa looks at Loung. Shame burns her hand like a hot iron. As
if to rescue her, Geak wakes up and her cries of hunger
interrupt the incident. The guilt weighs heavily on Loung.
Loung keeps to herself washing food bowls in a bucket in
front of the hut.
Geak walks up to Loung and tugs at her clothes. Loung gently
pushes her away. Geak tries again. She wants Loung to pick
her up. Loung moves away from Geak.
Pa walks out of the hut on his way to work.
Chou comes over to help Loung. Kim walks by and intentionally
knocks against Loung as he passes on his way to work. She
looks up and he gives her a look. He knows.
Loung’s lips quiver with shame. Chou grabs her hand.
Loung and Chou walk in line with others towards the garden.
43.
That night, Loung stares at Ma as she boils water for tea.
She remembers that Ma used to be so beautiful. Now red lips
are purple and dry, her cheeks are sunken, there are deep
shadows under her eyes, her porcelain white skin is brown and
wrinkled from the sun. Loung looks into her tea.
EXT. RO LEAP HUT - EARLY MORNING
Early morning as everyone gets ready to report for work.
Loung and Chou return to the hut with the water buckets. Ma
sits on the porch combing Geak’s hair and looking for lice.
She washes her when the water arrives.
Loung watches Pa head out to work. A GIRL arrives in the
village. She shows her pass to a chlop. She speaks to some
people and is guided towards the Loung’s family hut.
Loung watches as she comes closer. She seems concerned.
GIRL:
I’ve come with a message from
Comrade Keav.
The family gathers to listen. Ma shifts Geak on her hip.
44.
GIRL (CONT’D)
She has been sick. You are
permitted to visit.
OMITTED:
Chou is left home with Geak. Loung watches Ma put the slip in
her pocket as she leads them toward the road.
Ma guides Loung into the (pagoda or school turned into a
makeshift-) hospital. The sounds of suffering overwhelm her.
The room is full of patients. Most alone. One young boy
already dead.
Loung is just tall enough to see over the beds. She notices
coke bottles used as IV drips.
Splatter of blood on the floor catches Loung’s attention. A
nurse pushes past her. Across the room Loung recognizes Keav.
Loung is almost too afraid to walk forward.
When Loung and Ma appear they see there seems to be no flesh
left on Keav's body. Keav's eyes are sunken deep into their
sockets, and she can hardly open them to look at her. When
she first sees Ma she does not recognize her. Keav wheezes
and gasps for air just from trying to talk to her. Ma breaks
down and weeps.
Keav keeps asking for Pa. She is so weak she cannot raise her
hand to wave the (CG) flies away from her face. She is so
dirty. They didn't even clean up her mess up. They just let
her lie there in her sickness and dirty sheets. Ma gets upset
and tries to help clean her. Loung looks to her sister. The
sight of her is terrifying.
Days later. Clouds in the sky. (Land is wet from 167-172,
sometimes rain). Loung and Chou work the land.
45.
Loung sees the GIRL who came with a message about Keav. She
watches from a distance as she is led to Ma in the fields.
Loung looks on as her mother notices the girl and braces
herself for the news.
We can tell from the body language that Keav has died. With
the KR watching neither Ma nor Loung or Chou can express
their grief.
The hut is silent. Grief hangs heavy. Ma quietly making tea.
Pa sitting alone. (Possibly carving for Chou, Loung and Kim)
Loung and Chou whisper before bed.
LOUNG:
CHOU:
First they sleep peacefully not
knowing they are dead. They sleep
for three days and then on the
third day they wake up. That’s when
they realize they are dead. Then
they walk to a river, wash the dirt
off their bodies, and start their
journey to heaven to wait for their
next life.
LOUNG:
When will they come back?
CHOU:
I don’t know.
LOUNG:
I hope she won’t come back here.
Chou and Loung are at the stream doing laundry. They are
surrounded by other girls doing the same. No splashing or
laughter now. Only silence. Like Loung and Chou, the children
are so starved they hardly have the energy to wash the
clothes.
45A.
BEFORE DRY SEASON.
Base children play. Loung feels hate for them.
46.
The air is hotter and drier now. Time passes slowly. Loung
and Chou eat lunch huddled together. The food rations have
reduced even more.
The man with the Birthmark (who was tied to the tree) is
speaking with a Chlop. Loung notices as they give Pa a look.
Pa lowers his head.
LOUNG:
I’m going to kill them one day.
She looks back and sees Chou smiling to herself.
LOUNG (CONT’D)
You don’t think I can? I can.
CHOU:
(simply)
I don’t want you to. I don’t want
anyone to kill (hurt) anyone.
Chou looks sad.
MA:
(panicked)
How would they know?
Lying on her back next to Chou and Kim, Loung pretends to be
asleep.
PA:
Someone probably denounced me.
MA:
How is it possible? We hid our
names. Everything.
Loung rolls over to her side. Ma and Pa become quiet, waiting
for her to go back to sleep. Staring at Kim's back, Loung
forces herself to breathe regularly. Pa whispers something we
can not hear.
MA (CONT’D)
(whispering)
No. Please. They are too young.
They cannot defend themselves.
Pa takes a deep breath.
PA:
Not now then, but soon.
46A.
Geak kicks and moans in her sleep. Ma picks her up and puts
her down between Pa and herself. Loung rolls over once more,
this time facing Chou's back. She spies Ma and Pa asleep
facing each other on their sides with Geak in the middle,
their hands touching above Geak's head.
The next evening, while sitting with Kim outside on the steps
of their hut (sweeping). Loung looks out at the camp, and up
to the sky. When Loung focuses her eyes back on the earth,
she sees two men in black walking towards her with their
rifles casually hanging on their backs.
47.
Is Comrade Nath here?
KIM:
Yes comrade.
Pa hears them and comes out of the hut, his body rigid as our
PA:
Comrades, what can I do for you?
We need your help to repair the
bridge near Prey Svay. Come with us
Comrade.
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