2005 · drama · post-war · landmines
Living in Fear
Directed by Bùi Thạc Chuyên1h 45m2005
Tai, a soldier in South Vietnam, had 2 wives living in 2 different places. When the war ended in 1975, he brought his second wife and her child to a new land which was littered with mines and bombs leftover from the war. Tai earned his living by removing the mines from the land and collecting the scrap metal.
Our read: Living in Fear (2005) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · post-war · landmines entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / post-war, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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