There are, unfortunately fewer and fewer films which have such an impact.
A story about parallel lives, A tricycle/rickshaw driver (very sympathetically portrayed) a young child, and Harvey Keitel as a retired GI searching for his lost daughter. A poet dying of leprosy, recruiting an apprentice.
It is interesting to see the sights of Saigon, and Vietnam as it is being rebuilt- a massive five-star hotel built next to poverty stricken residents (How is that different from Atlantic City, New Jersey)?. The cinematography and soundtrack is both peaceful and disturbing. The photography of the young street children, playing soccer in the rain, is unique and touching. The scenes of the rickshaw driver, and his tenderness toward a local street-walker, are especially endearing. He saves his hard earned money, just to bring her to the expensive hotel, and watch her sleep, undisturbed. Some of the scenes will touch your soul, and you will empathize with the characters.
A reviewer had mentioned the fact that American life is so much more materialistic, and visual imagery such as this, the lotus pond, the autumn leaves can no longer be appreciated in America. What a sad commentary. Anyone who has traveled overseas will learn there is a whole world, much of which does not subsist by weekly trips to shopping malls and strip malls. Thank God for that, and Tony Bui's creative vision.
A story about parallel lives, A tricycle/rickshaw driver (very sympathetically portrayed) a young child, and Harvey Keitel as a retired GI searching for his lost daughter. A poet dying of leprosy, recruiting an apprentice.
It is interesting to see the sights of Saigon, and Vietnam as it is being rebuilt- a massive five-star hotel built next to poverty stricken residents (How is that different from Atlantic City, New Jersey)?. The cinematography and soundtrack is both peaceful and disturbing. The photography of the young street children, playing soccer in the rain, is unique and touching. The scenes of the rickshaw driver, and his tenderness toward a local street-walker, are especially endearing. He saves his hard earned money, just to bring her to the expensive hotel, and watch her sleep, undisturbed. Some of the scenes will touch your soul, and you will empathize with the characters.
A reviewer had mentioned the fact that American life is so much more materialistic, and visual imagery such as this, the lotus pond, the autumn leaves can no longer be appreciated in America. What a sad commentary. Anyone who has traveled overseas will learn there is a whole world, much of which does not subsist by weekly trips to shopping malls and strip malls. Thank God for that, and Tony Bui's creative vision.