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- 2017
- 136 min
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Loung feels Keav's hand pull at her, and her feet
automatically move in her sisters direction. With Loung’s
hand in hers, they catch up with the rest of the family and
continue their fourth day of marching.
EXT. ROAD - DAY
On their walk, the soldiers are everywhere, prodding them
along. They point and give directions with their guns.
In the scorching April heat, Loung watches as many older
people become ill from heatstroke and dehydration, although
they dare not rest. When someone falls ill, the family throws
out his belongings, puts the sick person on someone's back
and march on.
Loung notices a few lifeless bodies laid in a row on the side
of the road. She focuses on their feet.
The road ahead of them shimmers in the heat, and the dust
swells are everywhere, burning Loung’s eyes.
In the distance, her eyes focus on a lone man with a wagon
pulled by two yellow skinny cows. It is strange that he is
traveling against the flow of traffic. All of a sudden, she
is startled by Ma's scream. Between loud, halting sobs Ma
manages to say-
MA:
It’s you Uncle Leang!
With their hands in the air and bodies jumping up and down,
they wave excitedly to their uncle. UNCLE LEANG waves one
hand back and moves his ox cart in their direction. He comes
to a stop a few feet from them, and all at once they rush
toward him. He takes Ma into his arms with Pa standing
quietly beside them.
Uncle Leang hands Ma a package from the cart, she opens the
package of food, sweet rice, fish and bamboo sticks.
UNCLE LEANG:
I’ve been looking for you since I
heard.
19.
Standing next to Uncle Leang, Loung has to tilt her head back
as far as she can to see his face because he is so tall. All
she can see is the shape of his thin lips and wide, black
nostrils that flare once every few seconds as he talks to Ma.
At almost six feet tall, second Uncle Kim Leang hovers above
all of them.
OMITTED:
EXT. ROADSIDE - DAY
While Pa and Ma talk to Loung’s uncle, Loung quickly claims a
seat in the wagon with Chou and Geak. She stares at the
skinny cows. She wonders if they are strong enough to be able
to pull the family.
Only young children can be on the wagon with the uncle.
EXT. ROAD / OX CART - DAY TO DUSK
As the sun begins to set. Their trail takes them on a gravel
road along Route 26 westward. No matter where they go or in
which direction they turn, there are people marching ahead
and behind them. In the midst of the crowd,
Their wagon passes a Khmer Rouge village without stopping.
Houses on stilts and men in black with checkered scarfs. Some
of their children are in the bright green fields catching
fish with rods.
Further down the road Loung sees a pagoda with KR soldiers
holding men prisoner. Beyond them in the distance she sees
soldiers watching as Monks are made to tend the fields. Loung
looks at the faces of the Monks. They are put to work as if
they are being punished. She feels sad for them.
The cattle wagon keeps moving.
They veer westward, leaving their roadside companions far
behind.
Later-
Somewhere between Bat Deng and Krang Truop, Loung falls
asleep.
20.
EXT. KRANG TRUOP - EARLY MORNING
Loung slowly opens her eyes. Five days after leaving their
home in Phnom Penh, the family arrives at Krang Truop. A
small dusty village surrounded by rice fields as far as the
eye can see.
INT. UNCLE LEANG’S HUT - MORNING
Loung enters Uncle Leang’s hut. Uncle Leang and his wife have
six children, so with the nine new people it makes seventeen
under one roof. There are objects that show Uncle Leang had
been a middle class farmer before the Khmer Rouge took over.
Loung climbs into Pa’s arms.
LOUNG:
The village is so poor.
PA:
(strong)
So are we. And from now on if
anyone asks, we say we are workers.
We can not go back to the city. You
must stop thinking we can go back.
Pa has never spoken to her this way. It finally sinks in. She
trembles with fear. He holds her in his arms as her eyes
water and her lips tremble.
EXT./INT. UNCLE LEANG’S HUT - DAY
Loung’s POV of the rice fields. She removes her clothes and
hands them to Chou who is already washed and in a sarong.
Loung washes herself outside. There is a big round container
that looks like a three-foot-tall clay flowerpot. Then she
reaches into the container and takes a bowl full of water and
pours it over herself.
She becomes shy when she sees her little cousins watching
her.
The family clothes hang to dry. Pa helps Uncle repair a fish
trap. He is clumsy because he does not know how to do it
properly. They share a hot tea and smoke tobacco. A NEIGHBOR
is with them.
20A.
NEIGHBOR:
Is it true everyone has evacuated
Phnom Phen? (Pa nods) Did the
Americans bomb the city?
PA:
Angkar asked us to leave. I heard
no bombings.
UNCLE LEANG:
Here, in the village, Americans
have bombed for many years.
Sometimes three days in a row. We
had to harvest during the night.
21.
He pauses deep in thought.
NEIGHBOR:
They destroyed my house. My cows. I
revolution. We want a new society,
without poor people, without rich
people. We don’t need the
capitalists. The land is ours. We
are masters of earth and water.
Nobody answers.
UNCLE LEANG:
If you stay here you must refer to
the village chief. You are from the
city. You must be careful. Angkar
knows everything.
Loung wanders away towards a group of kids having a beetle
fight. Geak is loving it. Chou is not so sure.
Kim and Meng and Khouy play around doing handstands, and
teaching their cousins.
Ma and Keave are with the other women.
INT. UNCLE LEANG’S HUT - NIGHT
Lying on wooden planks Loung watches Chou tossing and
turning. Ma sits on a mat nearby holding Geak, who sleeps
quietly in her arms. She looks around the room at her
sleeping family. Loung overhears a discussion underneath the
floorboards. She looks through the slats.
AUNT KEANG:
We cannot keep them with us. We
will be killed.
UNCLE LEANG:
She is my sister.
AUNT KEANG:
You know there is no consideration
for family.
They continue whispering but Loung can’t make out what they
are saying. She looks over at Ma, wondering if she has
heard.
22.
EXT. UNCLE LEANG’S HUT - EARLY MORNING
Loung watching Uncle Leang. Wondering if he will say
anything. Life on the farm starts before the sun rises. The
clothes are now dry on the line.
Washing up. Breakfast. (Scraps to pigs? Feed for chickens?)
Loung walks into the fields.
Using the traps made last night, they catch fish.
The buffalo’s are brought in to graze.
Loung looks around she cannot shake the feeling someone is
watching her. She looks around anxious.
OMITTED:
Content from Scene 89 has been merged into Scene 77AA.
23.
OMITTED:
Later-
Loung watching her cousins and neighbors play.
Loung walks past Pa who sits quietly outside by himself. She
enters the hut but turns when she hears a cow bell. They both
watch as the Village Chief approaches Uncle Leang. They both
know what this means.
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