Our fathers part 2: Unknown
Mum had plenty to say about Thi's father, her first love, but when I asked about sis, she knew only as much as I did.
Sis is a 70's child, and everything about her, from her pragmatism and quiet nature, screams this. Vietnam in the 70s was still the main character of the world's newsrooms, becoming an entire genre of American movies. American Vietnam war movies always featured handsome young white men tracking through tall grass, with thick palm trees covering the sunlight above them. With the camera focused on the main character, the audience can barely see the farmers in banana leaf hats and bamboo houses in the background. The houses were built with dry leaves and were never meant to last more than a few years. It was easy to see why our homes made for good cinematography when they were alight from Viet Cong bombs.
