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Nirris Nagendrarajah reviews 𝑉𝑖𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑁𝑎𝑚 (2024), directed by Trương Minh Quý, exclusively for Cha: An Asian Literary Journal:

/ It’s interesting to me that 𝑉𝑖𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑁𝑎𝑚 has been banned in its home country due to a “gloomy, deadlocked, and negative view”. For me, the film was so tender and romantic, and any sense of melancholy is part-and-parcel of a queer life: this is how we experience the world, where eros meets dust, present meets past, personal meets political, and beauty is met with bloodshed. There the men are, in the end, at sea, thinking of watermelons at the end of the world, together, like those skeletons discovered in Pompeii—the Two Maidens—doomed yet preserved.

“There are so many things I want to tell you,” he whispers to him.

This is a masterwork on love, dreams, and migration in the wake of the after-effects of war. /

𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄: https://chajournal.blog/2024/10/29/viet-nam/

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