The White Silk Dress Page #10

Synopsis: The love story of Dan (a beautiful young woman) and Gu (a humpback), servants from two separate households in Ha Dong, Vietnam who have suffered most of their lives at the hands of their cruel masters. The couple flee south soon after Gu presents Dan with a wedding gift - the precious white silk dress his mother had owned (his one valuable possession), while he promises her a proper marriage someday in the future. The couple arrive in the seaside town of Hoi An and build a new life, with Dan ultimately giving birth to 4 daughters. Despite struggling through immense poverty and hardships, the family is happy and fulfilled as long as they have each other, but the horrors of the encroaching war brings tragedy and threatens to tear them apart.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Luu Huynh
  3 wins & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Year:
2006
142 min
34 Views


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but by the elegant laps

of the white silk dress

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but by the elegant laps

of the white silk dress

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H ng 1954

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O LA H NG:

(THE WHITE SILK DRESS)

completed by Springbay

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An,come here!

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Long ago,I luckily wore this long dress

one time.

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Only one time.

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And I have been happy up to now.

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Then I bore you,

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and I still keep that dress.

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Mom,

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Like you,as I wear this dress,

I will be happy all my life.

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And will I become pretty,mom?

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How could I know it?

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This souvenir is

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my inheritance for you

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You will wear it to school tomorrow.

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Remember, keep it clean

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to show to be a correct and decent girl.

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and It's important for you to study well.

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Do you understand?

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Yes,I do.

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How is to become correct and decent,Mom?

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That means:
you must be

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obedient,good -natured ,unblemished,serious.

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Why are there so many things I must keep?

Yeah!

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I have tried to become obedient

and good -natured before .

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Now I must even be unblemished and serious.

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Yes,you must be like that.

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Hey,let me see,turn around.

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What a beautiful girl ,my daughter is!

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Why do you make just a dress for me ,

not one more for my younger sister?

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I don't want my sister Ngo to interrupt her school.

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She is the best one of her class!

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Or you let Ngo keep her studying,please.

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I will not go to school any more.And

I will stay home to help you cooking rice ,won't I?

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No one of you will stop your studying.

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I can afford to pvovide you with a dress now.

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Temporarily,both of you share a dress.

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Ngo,come here!

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When I have enough money,

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I will make another dress for you!

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Yes,mom.

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Sister Ngo,

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wai for me to raise my pig bigger

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then I will give it to mom,so that mom sells

it to have money buying a new dress for you.

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Hey,mom made this dress not just for me .

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If mom dit it for you,

how could it fit me ?

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So mom dit it with my size

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so that it fit you and me.

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Sister,this dress belongs to us!

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Lu ,Lu ,come here!

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Be quick!Come here!

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Bring me a pot .

Hurry up!

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Sister An,tell me the story of a hump man under

the banian tree,please.

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Long ,long ago...

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there was a very ,very..rich Goverment Clerk

in H ng.

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Some night,he dreamed that a

dragon descended from the heaven,

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it opened its huge mouth,

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and breathed fire:

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Ah Ah Ah!

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It said:
Hey you,Clerk man,

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listen to me.

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"If you want to live longer and longer,

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to enjoy a wealthy life and to receive gifts

from gods

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you must love good - natured people,

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help the handicapped,too."

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Finishing saying that ,

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it flew into white clouds,

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then dissapeared

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On the next day,

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as passing by the village,

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the Clerk saw an infant,

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who wrapped in a new

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white silk dress,

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crying "oa oa oa" under a banian tree.

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Remembering the dragon's words,

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he asked his soldiers to pick up the infant.

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Unwrapping the dress,

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he saw a baby with a hump back ,

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and some emerging spines ,

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like a back of a dragon.

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"This is a good omen.

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This is a gift from gods to me."

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After saying that,

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he asked his soldiers set up an altar

under that banian tree

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to thank gods.

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After that,

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he took the infant to his home to bring him up...

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Then,

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the hump back boy

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grew up,

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now he turns into

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our father.

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Luu Huynh

Lưu Huỳnh (born Saigon) is a Vietnam-born Vietnamese American film director. His family arrived in America when he was 16 years old. He worked as a director for the Vietnamese diaspora variety show Paris By Night, which is banned in Vietnam. In 1997, a segment he directed accompanying a song by Trịnh Công Sơn generated much controversy among overseas Vietnamese because it allegedly depicted South Vietnam during the Vietnam War in a negative light.His 2007 film The White Silk Dress (Áo lụa Hà Đông) won the Audience Award at the Busan International Film Festival in South Korea, the Kodak Vision award at the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival in Japan, and the highly coveted "Best foreign film" award at the Golden Rooster Awards in China.The White Silk Dress has also been officially selected to represent Vietnam at the 80th Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category."The Legend is Alive" (Huyền thoại bất tử) released in 2009 and won six Golden Kite Awards, including a tie for Best Film.His latest film, "In the name of love" (Lấy chồng người ta) was nominated for People's choice award in 2012. more…

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