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- 2017
- 136 min
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EXT. RO LEAP MEETING AREA - DAY
The cart stops.
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The driver orders the new arrivals to get out and wait for
instructions from the village chief. Loung’s family quickly
jumps off the cart, leaving her behind. Standing at the edge,
she fights the impulse to run and hide in the far corner.
All around the ox carts, villagers have gathered to take
their first look at the new people. These villagers are all
dressed in the familiar loose-fitting black pajama pants and
shirts with a red-and-white checkered scarf wrapped across
their shoulders or around their head. They look like an older
version of the Khmer Rouge soldiers that stormed into their
city, except they do not carry guns.
Capitalists should be shot and
killed.
A BASE WOMAN:
Parasites!
The Base Woman walks over and spits at Pa's feet. Pa's
shoulders droop low as he holds his palms together in a
gesture of greeting. Loung cowers at the edge of the Ox Cart,
afraid to get off. To her, the villagers look very mean, like
hungry tigers ready to pounce. Their black eyes stare at her,
full of contempt.
PA:
(gently to Loung)
Come, you have to get off the cart.
She drags her body cautiously toward him. She takes hold of
Chou’s hand and together they follow Ma. (While he speaks,
Loung focuses on other things.)
EXT. RO LEAP MEETING AREA - CONTINUOUS
Loung looks around.
There were no soldiers in the villages, but there were
chlops, it means militiamen who spy, who are security guards,
who arrest...
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people from the jungle
area)
Angkar never uses any object from
imperialist and feudal society.
All of these things create a deep
divide between rich and poor.
You must absolutely give up all
personal property. Destroy
individualism; build the collective
spirit! Absolutely everything
belongs to the Angkar!
Loung nestles closer to Chou and leans her head on her
shoulder. The RO LEAP VILLAGE CHIEF makes his appearance to
the crowd of new people.
OMITTED:
EXT. RO LEAP MEETING AREA - DAY
By wearing the same thing we rid
ourselves of the corrupt Western
creation of vanity. We are all
equal. You will take these stain
(he holds up a bowl of berries -
makhleur in Khmer) and then mix in
mud to dye your remaining clothes,
removing all color.
Renounce family ties, and adopt the
immense family; have a
revolutionary consciousness!
ALL:
Yes, comrade.
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Father is now “Pok”. Not Daddy or
Pa…Mother is “Meh”. The Angkar
tenderly looks after you all, The
Angkar is your family now.
Loung grabs her Pa’s fingers even tighter.
Establish the Ro Leap Village.
The family is shown to their assigned plot.
Ma sorts through the clothes. Ma and the girls work to stain
them black. First they smash the berries and stain them.
Loung watches as the clothes lose their color.
During this process the Men are coming back with planks of
wood for the house and working on the structure.
Later - the clothes in black mud are hung out to dry. Ma
sees other mothers cutting their children’s hair to match the
KR. She begins with Geak. Loung watches.
OMITTED - CONTENT MERGED INTO SCENE 115
The bell rings, signaling mealtime. Gripping her wooden bowl
and spoon, Loung, Chou (with new haircuts) and Kim walk to
the communal kitchen while the others wait their turn. They
are separated into groups. (This is how they will now work
and eat. Girls 6-12 then older girls and women. Boys 6-12
then older boys and men.)
EXT. RO LEAP DINING AREA - BEFORE DARK
The kitchen is nothing but a long table, with no chairs or
benches, and under a thatched roof with no walls, and a few
brick ovens. On the long table sit two pots, one full of rice
and one full of soup with bits of fish inside.
There are six or seven base women stirring and scooping food
from the pots. A long line of new people has already formed
around the table. Like Loung’s family, they have all changed
from their city clothing into their black pajama pants and
shirts, the only clothes they will wear from now on.
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Loung looks at the long line in front of her. She stares at
the many black pots filled with steamy food on the ground.
The line moves quickly and silently. Under her breath she
counts the heads before her, eliminating them one by one,
anxiously waiting for her turn.
Loung raises her bowl to her eye level to make it easier for
the comrade to serve her. She does not dare look up at the
woman. Eyes focused on her bowl, Loung sees the hand dump
some rice in her bowl and drop a whole small fish on top of
it.
LOUNG:
Thank you.
EXT. DINING AREA - EARLY EVENING
Loung and her sister eat their food together. They lick the
bowls clean. She looks at Davi’s sister and the other new
girls.
She hears an announcement and sees the next groups line up.
She watches her older brothers and sisters with Ma and Pa
stand in line.
Their time is up. Loung and Chou walk back towards their hut.
OMITTED:
Ma Keav and Loung trade items with the Base women. Loung and
her sisters help sew palm tree walls for the hut. They have
never done this before and are watching a family to learn.
The men continue to work on the hut.
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The guards patrol. Pa and the boys are working on the house.
Davi’s Father and brothers are working next door to build
theirs.
OMITTED:
Over the megaphone we hear the mornings announcements and
call to work. We see the rice fields begin to fill with rows
of workers.
Loung and Chou are in line with the other girls marching to
work. They pass Ma and Keav in the fields.
Loung and Chou’s first day at work. They tend to the soil to
prepare a garden. Loung looks out and sees Ma and Keav in the
rice field. Kim is in a nearby garden with the other boys.
Chlop patrol.
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Later - Loung’s back is hurting. She is not used to this kind 119D
of labour. The Base Woman who spit at Pa upon arrival, walks
over. She looks at the girls and tells them they are lazy
and need to work harder.
The young girls try to hold back tears.
Pa finishing the roof. Loung’s eyes grow heavy. She falls
asleep.
EXT. RO LEAP GARDEN - MORNING - PLANTING
We pan across a large area where we see hundreds working the
fields.
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Loung and Chou work in the garden. They sweat under the hot
sun.
OMITTED:
Loung walks back to her hut and passes her parents and older
siblings working in the rice fields.
That night, Loung sneaks out of the hut past the KR on patrol
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