Journey from the Fall Page #5

Synopsis: Thirteen years after the end of the Vietnam War, a family who was tragically affected by the war are forced to emigrate to America.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Ham Tran
Production: Imaginasian Pictures
  7 wins.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
70
Rotten Tomatoes:
92%
R
Year:
2006
135 min
$498,000
Website
224 Views


for a richer man.

Is a trap.

- I understand.

- I don't like it.

Thank you for telling me.

Is a suicide. For all of us.

We're going.

Hey, Indian, what means suicide?

Wallace? Wallace!

Wallace!

Wallace, what are you doing?

Wallace, please will you come down?

Please, this really isn't the time.

Wallace, please!

Wallace, will you come down?

Wallace!

Wallace!

Wallace, what did you do?

Americana Exotica!

Americana Exotica!

It's beautiful!

Does he really died?

Let's go!

I'm all washed-up!

- Uncle Darwin, there's angry people.

- Don't leave me, my friend.

I'll tell everyone they were your idea.

They're going to find out I'm a fraud!

Go on! Shoot, you animals!

They'll pay you well for Darwin's hide.

He died, too.

And Wallace, too?

Did he really died?

Yeah, and in Wallace's case, happily so.

It was the natural order of things.

All things must die.

Damn it all!

Back! Get back!

Kaboom.

If you want something done...

Get down there!

...you have to do it yourself.

Get down there, you animals!

And bring them up here!

I don't like this! I don't like this story.

Why are we running away?

Why did Luigi kill himself?

Why did not he come with us?

And live as half a man?

He couldn't do that.

He gave up.

It's not very satisfying, is it?

He didn't think so either.

Please, the Mystic.

Why? Why are they killing the Mystic?

We need to go help him.

Mystic!

- Hey!

- Mystic!

Googly, googly, googly, googly,

googly, googly.

I'm sorry! I'm sorry!

I'm sorry!

I'm sorry!

I'm sorry.

Googly, googly, googly!

It's okay.

Indian!

Up!

Help!

No, no, no, no, no.

No, no, no, no!

Why are you killing everybody?

Why are you making everybody die?

It's my story.

Mine too.

Bring them up here!

Alive!

We are here.

Alive.

Roy!

Don't look at her.

- She is also with Odious.

- Quiet.

- Just like your girlfriend.

- Shut up.

No!

Your girlfriend came with Odious

to see you...

The bandit entered Odious's garden...

But she stood in the car and she...

- But Odious was nowhere to be seen.

- And Odious...

As the bandit ran past Odious' hiding place,

Odious cracked him in the nose!

No, but wait a little. Wait, please!

So he sank to the bottom of the pool.

He didn't even try to swim.

- You are making this up.

- No, I'm not.

And he started to sink and he was dying.

Let him live.

Get up!

Roy, get up and fight!

Get up!

Oh, what a shame! Look, God damn it!

Get up!

Look at him! Look at him!

Get up!

- I want you to see how pathetic he really is.

- I can't get up!

- Get up!

- I can't get up!

- For God's sake, the water's only waist high.

- Get up, Daddy!

I'm not your father.

How pathetic! Look at him!

He's a drug addict!

Your father is a coward.

A useless good-for-nothing!

Dad, get up!

He can't win!

That's because

our Masked Bandit's a coward!

Yeah, he never took an oath.

- A fake, he's a liar and a coward.

- You're lying!

No. He had his fingers crossed.

He has to die.

I don't believe you.

He was dying.

Don't kill him.

- I'll bring you more pills if you want.

- Dad, get up!

- Don't kill him.

- There's nothing left for him.

His daughter.

He wasn't her father, either.

She loves him.

She'll survive. She's young.

I don't want you to die.

Don't kill him.

Let him live.

Let him live.

Don't kill him.

Promise? And don't cross your fingers.

I promise.

Show me your hands.

See?

No more fighting.

He needs to go to his daughter. It's okay.

It's okay. It's all right. It's over now.

Give me a kiss.

Roy,

you do realize it was all a test

to see if you truly loved me, don't you?

We're finally free to follow our hearts.

By all means.

Follow your heart.

I'm not feeling very well.

We're a strange pair, aren't we?

Action, action, action, action.

So, this is the kind of trash

we're gonna be making now.

People jumping off buildings,

bridges, horses.

Did I just miss something?

That was it?

That was his big stunt?

He didn't even use that horse thing.

I put old man's teeth there

because I think that

the Mystic comes out of the tree

and it will grow a special orange tree.

Alexandria! Alexandria!

And we'll have oranges inside with teeths,

with teeth inside.

When I get out from the hospital,

I miss Roy very much.

My mother told me that he plays in pictures

and he does things

that the other actors cannot do

like falling and hitting

and when they climb on something,

when they...

I didn't believe my mother,

but then I saw him.

I watch the picture again

and again and again

and to make sure that was Roy,

and was Roy!

And then, I like the action

from all the pictures

because I know that Roy is making

all the falling and hitting and climbing

and he was on the stairs

and he was going up and down

and up and down.

And he was falling from the train

and he was taking the car...

And he was falling from the bicycle

and from a big house.

It was Wallace!

He was falling with the rope

and he was hit and he was going...

"Thank you, thank you,

thank you very much!"

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Ham Tran

Ham Tran (Trần Hàm) is a Vietnamese American film writer, editor, and director. He is of Hoa (Chinese Vietnamese) ancestry, specifically Teochew.He earned an MFA in film directing from the UCLA Film School and is most famous for his thesis film The Anniversary, which was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film. His most recent effort is the feature film How to Fight in Six Inch Heels which had its U.S. premiere on 13 March 2014 at CAAMFest in San Francisco. Tran also directed the full-length Vietnamese boat people and reeducation camp drama, Journey From the Fall, which was picked up in North America by ImaginAsian Pictures and released nationally on March 23, 2007. In 2009, Tran received the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Filmmaking. more…

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