The movie, The Scent of Green Papaya is a slow moving film about the daily routines of a girl servant, Mui. She is sold by her mother to another family because her father left them twice. What was really interesting about how the father left was that the first time he left his family; he just came back and was accepted into the family right away. I think that just shows that males in Vietnam are mostly in charge of their families and can do pretty much whatever they want and the wives don’t have much say over it.
I think the differences between how females and males are seen in Vietnam, is obvious throughout the movie. Women are always seen cleaning, cooking, etc. While men are seen ruling them and trying to make every single task of the women more difficult than it really could be. For example, the little kid who went around and knocked over buckets of water, and threw the clean clothes on the ground so that Mui would have to wash them again.
Throughout that film, we can see how peaceful life was in the eye of Mui. There was always peaceful music playing in the background. There are times throughout the movie were planes are heard flying, and the curfew alarms go off a few times. Both of these are put in the movie to let remind the viewer that there is a war going on during that period, and people are trying to live their lives the best that they can, with a war going on. Mui is hopeful and trying to look past the war in her life. This shows how most Vietnamese people were holding on to hope even though the war was destroying their country.
The movie, The Scent of Green Papaya is a slow moving film about the daily routines of a girl servant, Mui. She is sold by her mother to another family because her father left them twice. What was really interesting about how the father left was that the first time he left his family; he just came back and was accepted into the family right away. This shows that males in Vietnam are mostly in charge of their families and can do pretty much whatever they want and the wives don’t have much say over it.
ReplyDeleteI think the differences between how females and males are seen in Vietnam, is obvious throughout the movie. Women are always seen cleaning, cooking, etc. While men are seen ruling them and trying to make every single task of the women more difficult than it really could be. For example, the little kid who went around and knocked over buckets of water, and threw the clean clothes on the ground so that Mui would have to wash them again.
Throughout that film, we can see how peaceful life was in the eye of Mui. There was always peaceful music playing in the background. I think, this music symbolized the fact that the people of Vietnam will always come back and unite again. They’re all like family. There are times throughout the movie were planes are heard flying, and the curfew alarms go off a few times. Both of these are put in the movie to let remind the viewer that there is a war going on during that period, and people are trying to live their lives the best that they can, with a war going on. Both, the planes and sirens, symbolized the war that was going on. Mui is hopeful and trying to look past the war in her life. This shows how most Vietnamese people were holding on to hope even though the war was destroying their country.
In the final scene of the move, we see Mui reading on a cherry tree. I think the cherry symbolizes that people of Vietnam. No matter what how much the country is beaten and destroyed, the beliefs and the people will still be there. This cherry tree, will always stay be there. The citizens of Vietnam, can pick themselves up and continue to develop their country.