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Madame Nu’s house is the second movie directed and played by Tran Thanh. This time, he entered the main line, giving the land to his younger sister Uyen An.
Uyen An plays Ngoc Nhi, the youngest daughter of the lady selling crab cakes (played by Le Giang). Being abandoned by her husband and having to raise her children alone, Ms. Nu is very domineering, always orienting Ngoc Nhi according to her wishes, and at the same time forbidding her children from interacting with men.
However, the more she forbade her, the more her two daughters went against her mother’s will. After the eldest sister Ngoc Nhu (Kha Nhu) despite marrying shipper Phu Nhuan (Tran Thanh), it was Ngoc Nhi’s turn to become pregnant with her first love – the overseas Vietnamese John (Song Luan). Generational conflicts and recollections caused parents and children to “war of words” many times, to the point of killing each other.
Show, don’t tell: Show, don’t tell
Coming to the second movie, Tran Thanh continues to stick with the family theme, advocates exploiting generational conflicts to create empathy with the audience. If international movies like The Farewell hay Hello, Ly Hoan Anh choose to dig deep into the Asian culture to bring a subtle and subtle awakening; Tran Thanh placed viewers on wooden chairs opposite the family meal tray, making the audience reluctant to watch parents and children scold and scold each other.
If the focus of Godfather is when Quan (Tuan Tran) angrily smashes the table and chairs and Ba Sang (Tran Thanh) swears and says “I love you”, then Madame Nu’s house also pushed the climax with a throbbing line. When bravely facing her mother’s harshness, Ngoc Nhi also lost her temper and said: “I would rather fail in my dream than succeed in my dream”. The line can get the sympathy of Gen Z, but it also makes the heart of anyone who is a parent.
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| The focus of the movie is the swearing scenes, like Godfather. Photo: CGV. |
The right to fail to grow is a new value with the common ground of Vietnamese films, so the inclusion of Tran Thanh in his films is commendable. However, because the transmission method is still dogmatic with too dense dialogue, viewers find it more tiring than sympathetic. Compared to the character Quan has a career in hand, Ngoc Nhi is still living on pocket money given to her by her mother, money earned by her lover, and is actually not qualified to argue with Mrs.
Referring to the film’s dialogue, the audience shook their heads in disgust at the lines that were far from reality, made too much to depict the extreme nature of Mrs. When she saw Ngoc Nhi with long toenails, the mother scolded “You have long toenails, people say your family lacks morality”. Ngoc Nhi and John left their home, the economy was difficult. However, she often organizes parties with friends, even blaming her boyfriend “Why did you buy regular beef, you told me to buy wagyu?”. Details show the absurdity of the character.
If it was possible to change the density of swearing and disparaging sentences on the film into money, perhaps Madame Nu’s house No longer counting the revenue outside the theater, there is still a profit. Ms. Nu cursed her children heavily, despite Ngoc Nhu calling her husband “you” regardless of the time, Ngoc Nhi blaming Ms. Nu, but later also treated John equally badly. The loop message was tried by Tran Thanh, but because everything was too obvious, the film lacked the cinematic “show, don’t tell” (show, not tell).