Heaven & Earth Page #8

Now you come here...

...a rich, strange foreigner.

You'll turn the village against them.

And against us...

...the Phungs, who have suffered so much.

Things were bad for everyone

after liberation.

Many times,

heaven and earth changed places.

If you ask me,

rebuilding a nation after a war...

...is like trying to start a family

by getting raped!

If war produces one thing,

it's many cemeteries.

And in cemeteries there are no enemies.

All I could think of for so long...

...was how I made your brother, Sau,

go to war.

Your father wanted your brother to know

some of the joys of married life...

...but I said no,

so sure I was doing the right thing.

Can you believe it?

I gave up a grandson to gain a soldier.

And I lost both.

How wrong I was.

It was also An Sau's choice.

He was just being a good son

when he obeyed me.

If I could, I'd have stopped you

from going to America.

What would've happened

to your sons here?

I'm so proud of you, Bay Ly.

You've grown up to see the side of things

that's hidden from most people.

Tears are God's way of paying you back...

...for what He's taken.

I have no more tears.

I have cried them out

to all directions of the wind.

My color's changing, Ly.

It began last year.

I have seen it before in others.

You have come back,

and that's what matters.

You have completed your circle of growth.

Low tide to high tide...

...poor to rich...

...sad to happy...

...beggar to a fine lady.

Your past is now complete...

...and my destiny

as your mother is now over.

I'm looking forward to joining your papa.

That night,

I slept in the house my father built.

Afterward, he found no need

to visit me in my dreams.

I gave my offerings to all the dead

of the village.

I had come home, yes.

But home had changed...

... and I would always be in between...

... south, north...

... east, west...

... peace, war...

... Vietnam, America.

It is my fate to be

in between heaven and earth.

When we resist our fate, we suffer.

When we accept it, we are happy.

We have time in abundance, an eternity...

... to repeat our mistakes.

But we need only once

correct our mistake...

... and at last hear the song

of enlightenment...

... with which we can break the chain

of vengeance forever.

In your heart you can hear it now.

It's the song your spirit has been singing

since your birth.

If the monks were right

and nothing happens without cause...

... then the gift of suffering

is to bring us closer to God...

... to teach us to be strong

when we are weak...

... to be brave when we are afraid...

... to be wise in the midst of confusion...

... and to let go of that

which we can no longer hold.

Lasting victories are won in the heart...

... not on this land or that.

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