Word: xuan
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...most part, Coutard's tone remains one of understatement. He is out to win sympathy not to shock. The war rarely intrudes violently into the path of Hung and Xuan. But it is always in the background--in the insistent beating of helicopter wings or the constant presence of Americans in uniform...
...young Vietnamese returns home to his wife one day and tells her he is leaving to join the Viet Cong. The wife, though ill, is forced to work to feed her two children, a ten-year-old boy named Hung and a baby girl, Xuan. Circumstances deteriorate; the village burns, and the family moves in with unsympathetic relatives. After a time, the wife dies of a sarcoma of the leg, and the two children wander through the city, waiting for their father to return. The remainder of the film follows them: shining shoes, peddling newspapers, begging...
...Hung and Xuan cannot see the fighting as a clash of well-defined political forces. They have no conception of war in the abstract. War is something that has always been there, and it is comprehensible only in concrete instances--a bomb blast in a theatre, a soldier who will buy a newspaper, a father gone for mysterious reasons...
...plot is often, unfortunately, simplistic. A little boy's father leaves home to join the N.L.F. His mother dies soon afterward of an infected leg, and Hung and his little sister Xuan are left orphans of the war. A neighbor appropriates the money left for the children's care and mistreats them. So Hung and Xuan leave the neighbor's house for Saigon, and after a multitude of hardships are finally taken in hand by a kindly nurse. Xuan is placed in a children's clinic; Hung gets a mining job and visits his sister every...
...number of high-ranking officers who are deeply involved in profiteering. With a presidential election coming up in November, they say, he is in no position to start swinging a political ax at influential backers. His opponents, on the other hand, point out that his own uncle, Ngo Xuan Tich, directs the government agency charged with rooting out corruption, while Tran Thien Khoi, a brother of Premier Tran Thien Khiem, is in charge of all antismuggling operations...