Floating Lives (Cánh Đồng Bất Tận)

Kill her!

Beat her to death!

Glue her hole closed.

Drag her out!

How dare you?

Slap her mouth!

Stealing peoples' husbands!

I got your hair!

The police are coming!

Police! Police!

Police, let’s take off...

The police, run!

There she is... she's running away.

there’s no police, don’t be afraid

Get her!

Run after her!

Be quick

Quick, she’s running away!

Hurry, she’s running away.

Where is she?

Where? Where is she?

Get her!

Where... run after her...

You bastard! What are you doing?

Damn your father’s grandma!

Stop! Stop!

You bastard!

Oh... darling... hey there .

come here babe, come with me..

Why are your clothes ripped up?

Stop!

Stop!

Stop! Stop right there! You hear me?

Help... help me!

Stop!

Stay there! Bitch! Whore!

Whore!

Bitch!

Stop, you whore!

Give it to me!

Damn whore

Stop!

If you come back again, I'll cut your head off

So far,

We three: Father and two children keep wandering

from one nameless ricefield to another.

But Dien and I

have named those ricefields

according the memories we have had.

and later,

when we move to another ricefield,

we will think of this one by her name,

and my heart will stir...

The bird flu is turning out to be a huge disaster.

While typhoons cause deaths in a certain areas,

bird flu may turn into an epidemic

that can kill millions of people.

Oh Mom...

it hurts so much...

Dad...

can she... can she stay here, Dad?

No!

Why don’t you worry about the bird flu.

You want us all to die?

But, she’s all beat up...

and can hardly breathe.

Look at her... I feel sorry for her.

Sorry for her?

Well, that’s up to you.

I'm not that stupid!

Sister...

have lunch... then bring some for her.

How can she eat?

She was beaten cruelly, all over, by those woman

Eat!

hurry up!

There’s the loudspeaker again.

Dad wants to leave now.

Depart?

You heard the announcement...

we stay here, we might get caught.

But where can we go?

Where can we escape our fate.

Running all over the place like this...

the ducks are going to stop laying.

There still plenty of left-over ice in this field...

and the ducks are laying.

It’s a waste to move away.

Go!

Please have a sip...

Let me help her drink it later.

She’s really in pain

Sister, look...

What?

Steel-bonding glue.

Oh God...

and they poured it into...

that part of hers.

Water... water...

water..

Did you rescue me, sweetie?

Are you feeling better?

How long have I been here?

Almost... almost 3 days

Are these your clothes?

Yours... they were all ripped

You poor dear

Where are we that’s so deserted?

This is a duck-raising field.

Where is your mother?

I haven't seen her since I was a child

I heard you call “Mom, help me!” very clearly

Everybody is the same, calling Mom when needed

Why don’t you call your father?

I don't have a father

Why?

He left my mother to chase another woman

So we are almost the same...

Who's he?

That’s my brother, Dien.

He’s been very worried about you.

You were worried about me?

They... beat you up so badly

Yes, since I made them mad...

I am dying to have a bath

You can't yet

The water is full of potash

Inside the rice field... there's a pond of fresh water.

What are you doing?

These damn ducks

look how they ate all the new buds

Why did you plant it?

I really miss that grapefruit tree we used to have.

I wonder who dropped the seed in this field.

Care for it, then leave, you’ll just miss it again.

It’s too sad.

What’s the matter?

Nothing, honey.

I am used to suffering pain

So cruel

They used the worst kind of glue

You knew?

When they were chasing after you

I overheard them yelling it to each other

With that kind of glue... I can’t understand.

It’s understandable

When a woman’s belongings are threatened.

What do you mean?

Goodness,

Your father...

he’s terribly handsome.

What did you cook?

Porridge. I cooked it for her

Gosh, that smells so nice. I’m starving to death.

What kind is it?

Porridge... carp cooked... with lotus seed

Please eat it while it’s hot

That's all there is?

He only cooked enough for you

Please eat

I’ve never met anyone

who has taken care of me like this...

Please eat

Thanks to those women I get to stay with you

I hate cruel people.

I want to take revenge for you

I deserved to be beaten.

It’s funny

There was one guy there who had just borrowed 2 million dong for poverty relief

then he paid 1.2 million for a drink with me

That left only 800 thousand.

How could his wife control herself?

But what did you do?

Honey, I’m a whore

My dear, let’s go.

Pass it to me.

Who’s that?

Some people from the hamlet

What’s the matter?

If you don’t come, everything’ll be a mess...

Please, finish the porridge

After the harvest, are you going home?

Nowhere is home.

I’ve been moving like this since I was ten years old

What do you mean?

Moving, from one rice field to the other, nonstop

Where is your mother?

Where is your house?

What bird is that strange one, Dien?

It's a little cormorant.

It fell down from its nest...

There are plenty of crabs and snails in this ricefield

so the eggs laid by our ducks are so nice.

Oh dear, what are you doing?

Cleaning them... making them pretty.

You know

The buyers just count them by dozen or hundreds.

or look at the size.

They don’t care about cleanliness.

Let me be, I like them to be pretty.