Heaven & Earth

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A long time ago...

...a young woman went off into the world...

...like her brothers and sisters.

She fought in wars...

...had children...

...suffered...

...and loved greatly.

I was the sixth-born child...

...Phung Thi Le Ly...

...and I lived in the most beautiful village on earth.

My earliest memories were working alongside Mother in the fields.

Always working, my mother.

Each grain of rice, a symbol of life never wasted.

While we worked, she would teach me everything I had to know about life.

Mama, where did I really come from? Where do babies come from?

From my bellybutton.

Don't worry. God makes babies and put them in your belly.

You have plenty of warning.

The fragile rice had to be planted and transplanted several times.

Our rice paddies were always near the cemeteries...

...because we believed the spirits passed through the soil into the rice...

...so the new generation, in eating the rice...

...was sharing in the spirit of their ancestors.

Then one day, in the summer of 1953...

...the French came.

They destroyed our village.

And the following year, we went hungry.

I will never forget my father's eyes...

...as he watched our house burn to the ground.

But as it had happened to our village for so many centuries...

...we rebuilt our lives.

Mama, where do babies really come from?

Then in 1963...

...the peasant countryside changed forever.

When the Vietcong first arrived that rainy season...

...some of them were remnants from the war against the French.

Many of them were displaced immigrants from the North.

All of them were angry.

My parents taught me Vietnam is...

...a free nation.

That is what this war is about.

The Chinese, the Japanese, the French. They have each tried to rule us.

And we have won!

The North and the South are inseparable, like sisters.

But in 1954 the French and American allies gave themselves the right...

...to separate us and kidnap the South.

Can we stand by and watch the kidnappers...

...taking turns raping and corrupting our sister?

That is what this war is about.

Why should outsiders come in...

...divide the land and tell some people to go north and then go south?

If Vietnam were truly for the Vietnamese people...

...shouldn't we be able to choose the kind of government we want?

A nation cannot have 2 governments any more than a family can have 2 fathers.

- They have bombs, 10 to one! - He's right.

What do we have?

We have rags, we have rifles!

And sticks! We have sticks!

We have no rank, no promotion.

We take no money.

We are your servants.

We respect your homes and shrines.

We are your family.

Do you want to dance?

Le Ly, come on.

It was my brother Sau I loved the most.

He was always there to protect me and make me laugh.

Hurry.

Sweet rice, black beans.

You be very careful. Write, Sau.

I will return.

- Take care. - Le Ly, I will return.

Be a big girl. Always take care of Mama and Papa.

Protect yourself from ghosts.

Take care.

As they went north to Hanoi with the Vietcong...

...I felt it was the last time I'd see my older brother, Bon...

...and my younger brother, Sau, for a long, long time.

Maybe forever.

But it was Sau who was ripped from my heart.

You understand that a country is more than dirt...

...rivers and forests?

You know your brother Sau may not come back?

I told you many times...

...the Chinese ruled our land.

Many die.

Le Loi, Jia Long and the Trung sisters.

And your ancestor Phung Thi Chinh fought to throw out the Chinese.

Your grandfather fought and died against the Japanese...

...just before you were born.

We suffered much.

When the Japanese came...

...your mother and I were taken to Danang...

...to build a runway for the airplanes.

We worked like slaves.

Our reward was a bowl of rice...

...and another day of life.

Freedom is never a gift, be Ly.

It must be won and won again. You know that?

I do.

See this land?

Vietnam is going to be yours now.

If the enemy comes back...

...you must be both a daughter and a son now.

From my father I learned to love God and people I could not see...

...my ancestors.

But I would learn in time...

...my father's words would be twisted by events.

Government soldiers came with the support of American advisors.

Your village will be safe.

They built barricades against the Vietcong.

It's part of the new Binh Ky hamlet.

Many of you will be asked to take militia training...

...so you will be prepared...

...to resist the Communist rebel!

You will be rewarded...

...with food and money.

Your older children will be sent to camp...

...for military training.

But younger children can go to school.

Your village will be happy and peaceful.

Do you have any questions?

Go to your leader.

The soldiers ate our food, slept with our women...

...and searched our homes...

...just as the soldiers of the warlords had centuries before.

But the government's leader, whose name was Ngo Dinh Diem, America's ally...

...was a Catholic, like the French...

...and that alone made him suspicious to the Buddhists in our area.

The Northern leader, Ho Chi Minh...

...had been a great patriot against the Japanese and the French.

And we always heard stories of his compassion and his love for Vietnam.

- You VC? - No VC!

What are they?

Americans?

They say they all have blind blue eyes behind their glasses.

If you take their shoes off, they have soft feet and cry in pain.

Take away their glasses, their boots, they can't fight.

Not very good soldiers.

Not very good fence.

Your president, Ngo Dinh Diem, wants to know...

...what will you do if you see a Vietcong...

...or hear about someone who's helping them?

Turn him in to the soldiers.

Good.

And get a big reward for every Vietcong you help capture.

During the day, we were a government village.

But each night...

...when the soldiers returned to their base and we played...

...there was never any shortage of Vietcong fighters.

One night, the Vietcong came for my teacher.

Teaching these children to betray their country!

The first thing you should learn on this night...

...Ky La was saved from the boots of the oppressors.

We're the liberators!

The night belonged to the Vietcong.

Even though I was scared, there was no real choice.

They fought for our freedom against the Southern government.

No matter who's asking the questions, either side...

...play stupid, stupid, stupid child.

- Any news from Sau or Bon? - They're training in the North.

- Any chance for a visit? - There's no time for sons and mothers.

I told them we needed her on the farm.

For all the help she is here...

...maybe we should send her with Sau.

That'll teach her the value of work.

Don't say that!

Le Ly must do her work like everyone else.

She thinks she's too good for work.

Too busy flirting with no-good schoolboys.

- No, the big boys bother me... - Don't talk like that.

- Be quiet! - Don't hit her.

Do you hear me?

Do you want to send all my children to Hanoi or Saigon?

If I can't have my family around me, what's the point of living?

You always think only of yourself!

The French, the Japanese, now the Americans are all over us!

It's good they go north and fight.

War is coming, you stupid, selfish man!

Stop it!

Go!

Forgive him, Mama.

Don't cry.

I've made your papa lose face.

If you ever do that to a husband...

...I'll have both your cheeks glowing, one from him and one from me.

You hear me?

Which one is first?

Anybody? This is it!

You talk now or it's bye-bye, Charlie!

You dig, asshole?

All right, it's your ass!

Kiss it goodbye.

You're next.

You talk?

You gonna talk?

- Ah! - Shhh.

At my mother's request, a local wizard examined the umbilical cords...