00:00We're comics and we're fucking Vietnamese. That is, the language is torture.
00:06Have you been in Vietnam?
00:07He's going back later.
00:08Yeah, there's a lot of people going back over there.
00:10Yeah, I'm going in October to meet with other DBQ people who also moved back.
00:16Nope!
00:16One thing we noticed there is that, you know, it's communist now.
00:20What do you think it was?
00:21I thought it was north and south.
00:23No, that's why we're all here.
00:25Please give him a warm welcome. He hasn't been around these parts for a very long time.
00:30Sometimes I feel kind of funny about the fact that, like, my parents had to literally escape this country.
00:36Like, my mom got crammed into a small boat.
00:39She lived through storms and literally seven pirate attacks.
00:42Only for her daughter to grow up, hop on a plane eating bread rolls and watching The Sopranos for 24
00:48hours and go right back.
00:51Did your mom date Burt Reynolds?
00:53Tom Selleck.
00:54Tom Selleck.
00:55Tom Selleck.
00:55My mom, when she came to the U.S., you know, not wanting us to speak Vietnamese.
01:01That just says a lot as to what she was trying to leave behind.
01:05Did she see some shit?
01:06Yeah.
01:06What's your dad's relationship with the country now?
01:09I remember a quote from him.
01:10I would rather clean the toilets in America than live as a slave in Vietnam.
01:17Whoa.
01:18I grew up thinking that this is, like, a forbidden country.
01:20The anger is very hard to let go of.
01:23Right?
01:23That resentment.
01:24Like, my dad was in prison.
01:25He was a soldier for the South.
01:27So he escaped to Thailand where he met my mother.
01:30He escaped prison?
01:31Like, under gunfire.
01:32He jumped on the back of a scooter.
01:34Like that.
01:34Holy shit.
01:35My parents really wanted to come back.
01:37But it's starting to look like it's not going to happen.
01:41Just because of this, like, hurt.
01:42And that's kind of a big reason why I decided to put together this film.
01:46To just kind of highlight the beauties of this country.
01:49I've struggled personally with trying to convince my own mother.
01:53Can you be doing it for your mom also?
01:55I guess.
01:56I mean, my sister's name is Huai Heung.
01:58Wow.
02:00Wow.
02:00Heung is like the home country, homeland.
02:02That's right.
02:03And Huai is like nostalgia.
02:06Just like missing the homeland.
02:08The homeland.
02:08Why is it so important for you that your mom loves Vietnam?
02:13I mean, in the end, it tells you something about yourself.
02:16The only way out of all of this is for each one of us to find out what our parents
02:23could not forgive.
02:24And forgiving them for not forgiving it.
02:28That's what my therapist told me to do.
02:31What is your move, by the way?
02:33Check.
02:34Oh shit.
02:47However, every seeing and then follow us.
02:48I help my family in collaboration.
02:48Mom speaking, it doesn't bite me.
02:48Why don't you get my side of the sky?
02:48Ready to teach you.
02:49Bye!
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