
“I’m not hiding,” the Teacher’s remaining ego warns and then says: The disease ate away at his fingers, which is why he is forced to cast his pride aside when he meets the singing rural girl: The darkness of leprosy infected a once good-looking young man, who sought refuge in his poetry.
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Singing a song from her childhood to keep her going, she meets the Teacher, the owner of the lake full of fragrant white buds. The superstar plays a former US marine who has come to look for the daughter he conceived and abandoned in these lands, thousands of miles from his home, during the war.īut the most poetic moment in the film, which is depicted with cinematography worthy of Chaplin, comes with a young woman from the provinces who hasn’t come to sell her physical assets, but to collect lotus flowers. There are other flickers of the beauty of the human soul in the secondary role of Harvey Keitel, the only foreigner in the cast, who generously gives newcomer Tony Bui’s project a celebrity name and money. They carry them with a stick weighing down on their delicate shoulders.Ī debut of the country’s beauty, snatched away by camouflage uniforms in the recent past, Ngoc Hiep Nguyen represents a prostitute who is going to discover her human nature when a selfless cyclist wins an annual cycling competition and dedicates his prize money to the girl’s dream of spending a night in an air-conditioned room. However, flower gatherers row hard in Mekong’s coves collecting white buds that the girls are now carrying in two baskets. A thousand-year-old story unfolds amid poverty, without buildings collapsing and without censorship. She sells them in stiff competition, while club owners take great care of their establishments’ reputations, jealously. In what was formerly known as Saigon, a girl spreads the fragrance of her lotus flowers. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” Vietnam was the tragedy, while Cuba still dances to its own comedy, without deaths or invaders being killed. Karl Marx was right somehow when he wrote “All great world-historic facts and figures appear, so to speak, twice. We discover a landscape of lotus flowers without the smoke of bombs, which suddenly switches to a long line of bici-taxis whose owners negotiate with tourists coming out of bars and hotels, with beautiful girls on their arm.
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HAVANA TIMES – Now that we can take home any message with the “Weekly Package” on a USB stick, to our forced confinement, Tony Bui’s movie the “Three Seasons” is a must-see in Cuba.
