The White Silk Dress Page #2

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


When it bears fruits,

we'll have our wedding.

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What if... it doesn't bear fruits?

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If you truly love me,

then it surely will.

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Please play a tune for me.

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If you are not a Viet Minh,

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then why did you steal my rice?

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Only a Viet Minh would dare do that.

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How many times have you

stolen from me before?

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You stole my rice to feed the Viet Minh

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to rebel against me, didn't you?

Speak up!

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Please Sir and Madame I'm innocent...

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a thousand kowtows to you.

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I'm not a Viet Minh.

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You are heaven's light,

seeing far and wide.

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Sir and Madame...

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...it was not him.

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It was me who committed the crime.

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I stole the rice,

but I'm not a Viet Minh.

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Stealing rice means that

you are Viet Minh.

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Understand, you son of a b*tch!

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So, it was you?

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How dare you bite the hand that feeds you?

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I've been so blind.

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For God's sake,

you listened to the Viet Minh.

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You stole our rice!

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You bastard!

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Damn you!

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Who did you steal for?

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Are you mute?

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Your crime warrants death.

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Guard, tie him up.

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Give him a hundred lashes, immediately!

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Whip him!

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Let's get those French puppets.

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If we don't seize

our national liberation now,

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if we don't gain our independence,

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then we'll be enslaved forever

and never be free.

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Let's get the Governor!

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Let's get the Governor!

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Sir! The Viet Minh are attacking!

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Open the door!

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Guards! What's all the noise about?

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Let's get the Governor!

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What's going on? Guards...

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Down with the Governor!

You've taken our rice fields,

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left us starving and miserable.

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You've betrayed the people and ruined

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the country for your French masters!

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Get them out of here!

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Let's burn them alive!

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I beg you, misters and madames.

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Burn them alive!

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My husband...

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How did this happen?

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Burn them alive!

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Who killed you?

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Damn you, take it easy.

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Are you trying to break my toes?

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Mother, Dan has learned

to tell lies lately.

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I saw her with Hunchback the other day

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coming out of the abandoned house.

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But when I confronted her,

she denied everything.

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One of these days she will

come home with a big belly

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and give birth to a little hunchback.

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If you're not careful,

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she may blame it on Father.

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ls that right?

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She's a slut.

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Girls like her are going

to elope sooner or later.

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Such a pity.

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Your father and l

wasted our time raising her.

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If I ever see you with that

hunchback servant again

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then damn your ancestors.

I swear I'll beat you to death.

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You shameless whore.

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Oh my God! You monster.

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Are you trying to kill me?

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It's me.

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Run away with me.

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Did she beat you again?

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They can't do anything to me.

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Why are you here?

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What's with you?

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Run away with me.

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Mr. Governor and Madame have been killed.

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Their house burnt to the ground.

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Come with me.

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Dan, you've died out there haven't you?

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I hope lightning strikes you, so I don't

ever have to look at your face again.

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You'd better go.

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Come with me now.

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Sooner or later the Viet Minh

will be here.

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Run away with me.

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We'll escape to the South.

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Go wherever we can be safe.

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Let's just close our eyes

and step forward.

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We'll go together.

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Whatever happens happens.

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There's nothing to worry about

as long as we,re together.

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Here are the Viet Minh, who wanted

their independence and freedom.

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This is how they got it.

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Let's go.

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The defeat at Dien Bien Phu

on May / 7th / 1954

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marks the end of France's 100 years

Indochina empire.

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The Gevene Treaty was signed

on July / 20th /1954.

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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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