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Living in Fear

2005 · 105 min

A slow, somber immersion into postwar hardship, where every step is weighted by loss and the quiet danger beneath the soil.

Overview
Tai, a soldier in South Vietnam, had 2 wives living in 2 different places. When the war ended in 1975, he brought his second wife and her child to a new land which was littered with mines and bombs leftover from the war. Tai earned his living by removing the mines from the land and collecting the scrap metal.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • survival
  • family
  • war
  • grief
  • betrayal
Places
  • countryside
  • home
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror2
Humour1
Realism8
Romance2
Tension5
Darkness7
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Bùi Thạc Chuyên
Written by
Nguyễn Thị Minh Ngọc, Bùi Thạc Chuyên
Starring
Trần Hữu Phúc, Ngô Phạm Hạnh Thúy, Mai Tran, Mỹ Uyên
Music
Đỗ Hồng Quân
Runtime
105 min
Country
Vietnam
Languages
Vietnamese

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