The ultimate Vietnamese movie experience
an another one...
Visiting a cinema in Vietnam is a special experience. And an even more special experience when they show a Vietnamese movie. This years Tet-Blockbuster "Khi dan ong co bau" - "When man are pregnant" was the movie of our choice. So my friends and me went to a Cinema close to Le Loi Street for the ultimate Vietnamese movie experience.
The Cinema itself was nicely decorated with fake flowers in all thinkable colours in front of the canvas. The seats were incredible uncomfortable, at least for an average sized Westerner. So I was almost liying on two seats and changing position every few minutes.
Thinking of a longterm stay in Singapore, where they cool the cinemas down to fridge temperature, I brought a jacket, just in case. There was absolutely no need to do so. The only refreshment came from a small fan just above the entrance.
Long after the show already started, spectators still arrived to watch the movie. When all seats finally were occupied but still more visitors came, the staff of the theatre just conjured up some small plastic stools out of nothing. On the stairways between the seatrows was enough place for them.
Long before the show ended, whole families decided to leave. Due to this steady flow of people the cinema never got really silent. But as my Vietnamese was anyway not good enough to understand the movie I did not mind.
"When men are pregnant" is one of the movies, one does not need to know the language for in order to understand it. It's a comedy. And the gags lie in the mimics of the actors or are that kind of screwball, that is understood all over the world. Cohorts of pregnant men in maternity wear populate the Ben Than Market. Cyclos with jet propulsion fly around the city to rescue the poor men, who really suffer from their pregnancy.
The main story is a classical one. A boy and a girl are in love. They take their chance and go for a weekend trip to Dalat. The girl gets pregnant. But her boyfriend thinks that the timing is not allright, so he urges her to abort. When he tries to catch her, while she runs away from the illegal abortion doctor, he is overrun by a car and falls into coma. In his long sleep he has the strange dream that suddenly all the men are pregnant, instead of the women.
Partly surpisingly explicit in a smart way, the movie is a funny entertainment and for foreigners a quick guide to Vietnamese humor.
Visiting a cinema in Vietnam is a special experience. And an even more special experience when they show a Vietnamese movie. This years Tet-Blockbuster "Khi dan ong co bau" - "When man are pregnant" was the movie of our choice. So my friends and me went to a Cinema close to Le Loi Street for the ultimate Vietnamese movie experience.
The Cinema itself was nicely decorated with fake flowers in all thinkable colours in front of the canvas. The seats were incredible uncomfortable, at least for an average sized Westerner. So I was almost liying on two seats and changing position every few minutes.
Thinking of a longterm stay in Singapore, where they cool the cinemas down to fridge temperature, I brought a jacket, just in case. There was absolutely no need to do so. The only refreshment came from a small fan just above the entrance.
Long after the show already started, spectators still arrived to watch the movie. When all seats finally were occupied but still more visitors came, the staff of the theatre just conjured up some small plastic stools out of nothing. On the stairways between the seatrows was enough place for them.
Long before the show ended, whole families decided to leave. Due to this steady flow of people the cinema never got really silent. But as my Vietnamese was anyway not good enough to understand the movie I did not mind.
"When men are pregnant" is one of the movies, one does not need to know the language for in order to understand it. It's a comedy. And the gags lie in the mimics of the actors or are that kind of screwball, that is understood all over the world. Cohorts of pregnant men in maternity wear populate the Ben Than Market. Cyclos with jet propulsion fly around the city to rescue the poor men, who really suffer from their pregnancy.
The main story is a classical one. A boy and a girl are in love. They take their chance and go for a weekend trip to Dalat. The girl gets pregnant. But her boyfriend thinks that the timing is not allright, so he urges her to abort. When he tries to catch her, while she runs away from the illegal abortion doctor, he is overrun by a car and falls into coma. In his long sleep he has the strange dream that suddenly all the men are pregnant, instead of the women.
Partly surpisingly explicit in a smart way, the movie is a funny entertainment and for foreigners a quick guide to Vietnamese humor.
posted by Sternenstauner at 10:08 AM
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