Lost in Paradise (2011) Movie Script
Looking for a place to rent?
Yes.
Found one?
Not yet.
What's your budget?
5-700 hundred dong.
For that price you won't find
your own place You need to share.
The ones you like are most
wanted, how can you get it?
Listen. The place I'm renting is
2 million a month fully furnished.
If you want to share,
you can pay 700.000 dong.
That's great. Thank you so much.
I have two cats. Do you hate cats?
No problem.
Great. I'm Dong.
I'm Khoi.
The apartment is near here.
Come have a look, then decide.
-Go. -Yes.
How old are you?
20!
What are you going to do here in Saigon?
I don't know yet. I just wanted to find
a place to stay and than I'll see.
Why did you really come to Saigon?
Because people said Saigon is an easy place to
live and there are opportunities for everyone.
It's paradise, right?
Correct!
I live with my little brother.
Hey, wake up, Lam.
What for?
Wake up! Someone has come to live with us.
What?
What do you mean?
Someone to share the rent. This is Khoi.
He seems to be nice, so I invited
him to share the place with us.
Bizarre!
Take a seat over there, I
need a private chat with Lam.
What's going on? Why did
you let him move in with us?
Jealous?
No way.
You and Lam take the
bed, I'll take the sofa.
Or if you don't mind, we can
all share the bed. How's that?
Whatever. I'm easy.
Good, we all share.
Do you snore?
Oh no!
Good, OK
Then first give me the
700.000 dong for the rent.
For the utility bills,
we split it in three.
It's not that much, about
300 to 400.000 dong in total.
I want it to be fair so we
can get along with each other.
Yes, OK.
Here you are!
Why don't you first go take a shower and then
I'll take you to register at the police station.
You smell, bro.
I smell too but you go first
I like to take a long shower.
You can put your stuff in that wardrobe.
Thanks.
Did you see his money?
He kept it all with him. Now what?
Just grab them.
Lets meet at the cafe near the newsstand!
Khoi, I need to get something.
OK!
Hey, what are you doing?
Stop!
Stop! What are you doing?
Give my things back! Stop!
Stop! Give my things back!
Did you check his bag?
Auntie Sau, give me an
iced coffee with milk.
Is there anything valuable?
Nothing but clothes and shoes.
Where's his money?
37 million dong.
Wow!
He's from Nha Trang. What
if he tells the police?
Who will trust him?
We didn't register ourselves there.
I'm only worried about the landlady.
Once she's looking forus,
there's no way to hide.
Here, no one cares about others.
No one knows those two guys.
Thanks.
The deposit is 3 millions minus the utility
charge for this month is about 300.000 dong,
So you keep the remaining
of 2, 7 millions dong.
Thank you.
Done. What a greedy bitch!
Khoi has lost all his papers,
how can he get a job?
Should we find a way to
give him his papers back?
He'll go back to his hometown.
It's best for him.
Poor guy!'so innocent!
Saigon isn't the easy
place that he thought.
And us?
Now we have some cash we can
do whatever we want, We'll see.
Can you buy me a spicy sandwich?
I am starving.
Just get some instant noodle here.
Im craving for spicy sandwich. Just at the left of the
corner about 2 Om, you'll find the bread stand there.
Yes, I know it.
-Still have money? -About 100.000 dong.
-Don't for get lots of chilli! -Yep.
Bring those back right now!
Now!
Auntie Sau, where's my friend?
He left in hurry.
Hi, baby.
Are you leaving me?
Yes, I will get out of SaiGon
and do my business somewhere else.
Take care of the cats for me.
Good luck, baby I love you, baby.
I am free now.
Getting cheated is your problem.
I don't care about people's business.
I just caught you stealing
my TV and DVD player.
You can go to jail for a few years.
That's for sure.
Get lost!
Or Is cream.
Give me 300
How much?
- Both of you? - Yes!
For one time or the whole night?
Who can do it for the whole
night? We have to work in the morning.
800.000 for both.
500.000.
100.000 more please!
500.000! That's it! For 600.000 we
could have a much younger one, Grandma!
OK how about 100.000 dong
more That's 400.000, OK?
You're picky for a street
whore aren't you! Stupid bitch!
What a cheap bastard!
How much?
500.000 dong
The others are only 2 to 300.000 dong.
You get what you pay for!
OK, 500.000. You take care. of the room!
Rooms are only 70.000
dong an hour around here.
You're not going to lose me. over
a few measly thousand dong are you?
Come on then.
First time as a porter?
Yes.
Are you a runaway?
It's not easy to survive in Saigon.
If you can, go back home.
It's the rainy season and not good to sleep in the
street. To share a room is 10, 000 dong each, want to?
Sleep together?
Yep, like sardines in a tin.
That's why it's only 10.000 dong.
-How much? -700.000 dong.
500.000. OK?
How many guys so far?
Two.
What?
Only two up to now?
Who's that?
The crazy guy!
Damn, when he's here who
would dare to come near you.
Hey, wanna fuck that girl?
Give me money.
No money?
Fuck off!
You want to replace us?
I'll be at the shit out of you!
Get the fuck out of here!
Fuck off!
Gosh!
Hurry up or I'll beat you. Hurry!
Go!
You, how many already?
(man singing ) "If you hit me,
I will tell your mommy"
You just get here from the brothels?
No, I work on my own.
I used to stand in another area.
Working at the brothels has its advantages.
We don't have to brave the wind and rain,
but the hours and the money isn't so great.
If you go with a 400.000 dong client
then the brothel owner takes half of it.
If you get caught by the
police we're all in bloody jail.
Out here, you work whenever
and wherever you like.
Take a vacation even! Sometimes I even switch
corners so the customers think I'm fresh trade!
My name is Long.
lam
Good traffic on this street?
Depends, you have the makings of a
hot boy, I don't think you need to worry.
I hope so.
(singing ) If you hit
me, I will tell your mommy,
Go. Go! Get out of here quickly!
The pimps will beat you up if they
see you here and will beat me too.
Go!
Crazy!
What are you listening to?
The ducklings inside the eggs are crying.
The ducklings inside the
eggs are crying-Understand?
Hot water make the ducklings crying.
What are you doing?
Hey, Cuoi, why are you so excited?
You hatch an egg?
Crazy!
Want some?
They said you are hatching an egg?
Where?
Can I see?
You painted this? Female?
You like the female one?
What if it won't hatch?
Hey!
When it grows up, you'll marry it?
Hey!
Put it in a bucket of water.
If it turns around, it means it is
going to hatch otherwise it's dead.
Remember this!
Hello!
I told your not to change your phone
number you can lose a lot of customers.
What do you want?
Why are you so tense? How are the cats?
So so!
And you?
Fine!
Who's that?
My ex.
So you changed your phone
number because you're mad at me?
I just got back to Saigon,
I looked for your new number first.
You gave it to everyone but me.
You must be upset with me.
Then one of our previous
customers gave it to me.
I'm glad you're still doing the same thing.
What do you want?
I just came back and don't have
a place to stay, no one to love.
remember the great time we had
together and I want to resume it.
I don't want to see you
again I want to have a new life.
A new life but with the old
job What's the difference?
The difference is is that it's without you,
that's enough Do not call me again. I won't talk to you.
He was my first love.
Wanna come stay with me?
He took care of me taught
me everything about being gay.
A friend of mine is
coming over for a visit soon.
I want us to have sex with him.
You and I will have sex with him.
Are you insane?
It's just sex.
But we are in love.
It's something new, It'll be hot.
I can't! It's not my thing, I can't do it.
How do you know if you don't try?
First time for everything right?.
But I don't want to.
But I want to, and I want
you to do the things I want.
Baby, remember to do the best at what
have taught you, don't disappoint me!
Did you go along with it?
I didn't want to lose him I loved
him and believed everything he said.
but the truth was even more horrifying.
Why don't you take a shower?
He's gone. He left you this.
It's a million. He gave us 3 millions.
I took 2 millions,
one for you because he's my customer.
Okay, make it straight!
He's not my friend, he's my customer,
and for some damn reason today,
he was in the mood for something extra.
Normally, the price is one million, but in this
special case. he was willing to give us 3 millions.
You mean...
It means that I'm a prostitute and
you just did it for the first time.
Take it.
Damn you, why did you do that,
Why? Why did you do that to me?
So what the fuck did you think my job was?
I'm a prostitute, It's how I make
a living so enough fun and games.
It's about time you start making a living I'll
help you get customers Then you find them yourself.
Leave that all there.
I bought them all with my
money, you still owe me plenty.
Nothing in life is for free.
Why didn't you leave him?
I left, but I came back.
Why?
Because I still loved him.
You still loved him although
the treated you like that?
Love is hard to explain.
Sometimes you don't know why you love a
person even when they are not good for you.
The feeling of being with a customer and
your lover at the same time was revolting,
but luckily I no longer loved
him, so things got easier.
So you no longer loved him,
you're even disgusted by him!
When you are a prostitute,
no matter how many people you are intimate
with, you still feel lonely and empty inside.
am scared of that feeling. I need someone
to lean on, even if that person's a low life.
Why don't you look for someone else?
Look for a normal guy?
Who'd accept me as I am?
And to love someone in the same business,
Long you know as well as me, prostitutes,
most of them, sell
both their body and soul.
Dong is the same, but he understands me.
That's why I couldn't leave him,
just like a faithful dog.
Where is your egg, Cuoi?
Still being hatched or was it boiled?
Oh, you got me. Here's your money.
Lam, let's have sex together tonight.
Are you nuts? If you want sex, do it later
with a customer. Get laid and get paid for it.
I don't want to do it with a customer.
Tonight I want to have sex with you.
And not just tonight, I've wanted it for
a long time Let's find a motel, my treat.
No!
OK then, Ill pay you 500.000.
Treat me as a customer.
I can't make love to you.
It's too weird I don't feel comfortable.
Why weird? You have done it with
hundreds of guys already why not with me?
I don't have any diseases, no HIV here.
Because two gay whores having sex
with each other is just sad and pathetic.
I've loved someone with this same occupation
before and I don't want to go through it again.
It was a terrible experience.
Cuoi what are you holding
so seriously and carefully?
Is that the duckling from the hatched egg?
You're so good, Cuoi!
I've never seen anyone able to
hatch an eggs before! Excellent!
Cuoi! With your life it's
not easy to keep a duck.
Maybe if you had a wife a
woman's sense would make you normal.
Oops, how do you know I'm here?
What are you so happy about?
Got money to fuck me?
400.000 for one time, 700.000
for the whole night. Money. Hurry!
Damn it, why are you so excited?
Ah, is it from the hatched egg.
Oh! So cute! So lovely!
Give it grasshoppers, little fishes
and insects, and it'll grow quickly.
Before, my family used to have 200 ducks.
Ducks are easy to raise,
but also die easily.
One morning when I went to the
tent to take them into the rice field,
and I found them all dead
not a single one survived.
There was an epidemic in the
Mekong delta and all the ducks died.
Most people left for
Saigon because of that
Bitches, give me the
money Go! Go! Go! Hurry!
Go! Go Go!
Fuck you, why do you always
stick around her? Go! Go!
Go!
Fuck this bitch! Why don't you pay attention to
your work just fucking playing with this moron.
Remind of your old job?
Give me the duck.
Motherfucker! Give me.
Stop!
Give it back to him.
Oh my gosh! Today you have the guts!
You dare to fight me because of this duck.
You're dead. I'll kill it
first then I'll kill you both.
Give it back to him or I'll stab you.
I'll stab you!
Come on, give it back to him. That
bitch is crazy. She will stab you.
Go! Go!
Fuck! You want to die? Fuck you! Asshole!
Don't kick her face, she need to work.
Damn, how dare you bitch, you whore!
Hi, honey!
I've been looking for you. You
changed your number and never call me.
I thought you'd be miserable
without me, but I guess I was wrong.
It's sad to think about that.
I disgust you.
Damn you.
You think it's that easy to get rid of me?
I want you to come back
with me... like the old days.
Never.
Son-of-a-bitch, where are you? Come here.
You dog. Come here, come here.
Shut up! Are you crazy, bastard?
Why are you screaming at
this hour? Fucking crazy!
I'm going to kill you!
Cool down man, calm down!
Let me go. Calm down,
I want to talk to you.
You son-of-a-bitch! Let me go! Calm down!
Calm down!
Are you calm?
You fool, why didn't you
go back to your home town?
Where are you going?
None of your damn business!
Leave me the fuck alone!
Want to come live with me?
Then what? So you can cheat me again?
What the fuck do you
have now for me to cheat?
I just want to help you.
You are gay, right?
How do you know I'm gay?
Because I'm gay too.
I only need a quick glance
to know who's gay, who's not
Why do you want to help me?
At first I just wanted to return your
things, but when I thought about it,
your situation was exactly like
mine when I first came to Saigon.
And secondly I need a companion, to wash away
the blues. And by the looks of things, so do you.
Why don't you go back to your home town?
Huh?
Idiot, why didn't you go back to
your home town after you were cheated?
Because there is no place
left for me back there.
Even your family?
Your family found out about you?
Yes.
Then you stuck.
What do you intend to do in SaiGon?
I don't know. When I need to move on, Ill I
just go anywhere I believe is the best place.
Let's sleep.
Why did you tell me about you and Dong?
I want you to know who you're living with.
I don't want you to be like me then.
Wait here. I need to go to the toilet.
How are you, Lam? Hey, Hung. I'm fine.
After the movie, go with me!
7.00 at the same motel?
Sorry, tonight I'm with my friend
Oh, The guy with his broken
leg in cast is your customer?
No, he's my boyfriend.
Ask him to come, I'll pay double.
No, he's not in the game.
300 USD for the whole night.
You two do it and I'll watch.
Son of a bitch!
How much?
500.000, please!
500.000?
OK. Come on!
Here we are!
-Here? Not at your house? -Yes.
-Here, you'll have to pay me 100.000 more
-OK.
Son-of-a-bitch,
you think I'm a fag like you?
Hit him.
Ahh... Help! Help! Help me! Help me...
This is for you!
Thank you.
Ut!
Go get some rice and food.
Hey Ut!
Hi!
Hi!
My colleague.
Please tell the board of directors that they
must take some responsibilities for Long.
They shouldn't just
abandon him be like this.
Yes, I will tell them.
-OK! -Here is some money for medicine.
I'll go get the medicine You
stay here with Long. Thank you.
You go sleep first, don't
wait for me, I'll be back late.
You go out to work again?
Yes.
Please don't go!
It's my job, it's just work.
Please don't go.
You have the stranger's smell.
Take a shower!
You really love me?
Yes. Very much.
So how can you continue
to go out with customers?
Because I am a professional prostitute.
Do you know what being a
professional prostitute means?
It means you have to divide
yourself into two separate parts.
Your body is the tool to earn money.
The customer's money can only
buy my body to satisfy themselves,
but they can never touch my
heart which belongs to you.
It won't be long before
you get used to it.
Early next week I'll work.
Just wait until you are fully recovered.
Tomorrow my cast comes off.
What job? If it's too hard,
I won't allow you to do it.
No, it's a wonderful job
at the second hand bookshop.
The owner is a very nice retired teacher.
She said when there are no customers, I'm free to read
books and I can borrow books to take home as well.
Salary?
-Two millions from 10 am to 6 pm.
-OK. Good.
But listen, the best thing
is that she needs two salesmen.
I told her about you and
she agreed to meet you at 2 pm.
We can work at the same place.
It's what I've been dreaming of.
I won't do that. I have my own job.
Thought you wanted to get out of it.
I tried to quit several
times, but I failed.
Try once more. You're living
with me now, not with Dong.
Whoever I live with, it's the same.
This is my life, my fate I accept
it, and you should accept it too.
-Yes -Why are you crying?
Oh... the book is too emotional.
Oh dear... That book moved you? Funny!
Hey, don't tell me you
are here to get customers?
What's the other option?
Stay and starve at home?
With that leg, how are you
going to find a customer?
Who knows, may be I'll catch
a customer into cripples!
Take this. You should go home
Come back when your leg is healed
It'll be forever before my leg heals.
You can't give me money every day you know.
Consider it a loan. I'll pay you back
when I have some left over. Thanks a lot.
I am so bored at home I can't stand
it I'm used to the atmosphere here.
I wonder with this unique leg
should I raise the price or lower it?
Be careful, or you'll get it broken again.
What's wrong? Why the dark face?
Huh?
The duck is gone, right?
What's the...?
Wanna buy ducklings?
15.000 dong per one.
How many you want? Pick!
Put it here.
Just one?
Put it here.
Start the day with just one duckling. Damn!
Ducklings. Ducklings.
What? Want some more? Go ahead.
What?
Return?
The whole morning just one duckling.
What a trouble maker!
Go away.
Go away. Fuck you.
Today, I may have to
eat all these ducklings.
What's a mess!
Sleep, please!
Get out of here!
-Get off. -Get off.
Get off.
Get off. Get off.
So this is the reason why you
didn't want to get back with me.
Go! Leave! Never in a million
years will I get back with you!
You're so cruel and cold to your first love,
the one who loved you and taught you everything.
Get out of here.
You resemble me more and
more every day. I like it.
Give me back my money!
Search me.
If you find any money,
you're welcome to it.
Fuck you. Let go of him. Let go of him.
You two seem to enjoy the pain.
Remember you both
started this first, not me.
How about this,
I'm renting a very
nice big room near here.
Why don't the three of us go
there have a little fun together.
Damn you, that's never going to happen.
Fuck, you think Lam will love
you for the rest of your life?
He's a whore, he says he loves you
but still goes and sleep with other guys.
Shut up!
... and one day he'll turn
you into a whore like him.
Shut up!
What the fuck is there to keep
a gay love like yours permanent?
Stable? Fickle like a child with toys. Hook up, have
a bit of fun, once you're over it, find another toy.
Being gay and a whore, your
future is fucking bright isn't it!
Bastard, get out of here, otherwise...
Otherwise? Otherwise what?
What do you going to do to me?
If you don't get out, I'll stab you.
Bravo! You're more masculine every
ti me I see you. It turns me on.
Leave!
Disrespectful child!
What the hell are you doing?
It's you who taught me
to be cruel to survive.
Get out!
Don't blame me.
You forced me to do it.
And I'll do it again if you
keep interfering with my life.
Fuck off!
I did it to protect us.
Please quit...
When you love someone, you have to. give
both your body and your soul to that person.
What you have told me were just excuses.
Either you don't love me, or your love is not
big enough for you to quit your job for me.
Right?
I don't believe in love anymore.
Dong is right.
Though I love you very much, in my mind I always
think that sooner or later this love will evaporate.
I don't hold such high hopes.
I take it a day at a time.
That's the reality of gay love especially
for one with an occupation like mine.
If I quit this job for you, and find another one,
when we break up, I will just go back to it.
Everything you say is true?
Yes, absolutely.
What are you doing here?
How did you know I was here?
I am asking you what you
are doing here!? Go home now!
Go home now!
No!
What's wrong with you today?
Have you lost your mind?
I want to work like you.
What? You want to be a male prostitute?
I stopped working in the bookshop.
I came here to find customers with you.
Ouch! -Are you nuts? Wake up!
Go home!
Go home... Get out of here right now!
If you can do it, I can do it.
What's wrong with you today?
Nothing. I'm fine.
Let's go home and talk.
No, I intend to find a customer today.
Are you trying to piss me off?
Go on, do it then. I want to
see if you dare go with one
Is that what you think?
Just wait. When I get a customer,
you'll see if I'm pretending or not.
Oh wow, fresh meat. How much?
How much is OK?
It's his first time,
give him 1 million won't you?
Whatever ladies. You all claim to
be first-timers to raise your prices.
When in actual fact you're all just
moving from one corner to the next.
500.000 dong, that's it no more no less.
Is that OK?
Come on!
Get on.
Come on.
Good price! Go!
You drive me please!
Khoi!
Khoi, stop, don't go Khoi
Khoi, come back please...
Get up! Breakfast!
I bought some food for us!
Damn you. Why did you do that?
What the hell is wrong with you? Huh?
Once you begin... once you get into this world
you can't stop. You understand that you fool!
You want to know why?
I want you to know the feeling of waiting for you every
night to come home after you've been with your customer.
How do you feel?
Horrible, isn't it?
Last night, I didn't go with that guy.
I got off his bike and kept wandering the street
the whole night, thinking about our relationship.
We need to break up!
You and I came to this city
imagining it to be paradise,
but in reality we are in a living nightmare,
a personal hell which we have been creating ourselves.
I can't continue to live like this.
This is not the way I want to live.
Let's quit the job.
How long do you think
you can keep on doing this?
Do you want to be a ragged old man staggering
on the pavement, waiting for a customer?
Is that how you want to end up?
Yes, if that's what fate
holds for me then I accept it.
What a cowardly,
pathetically unhappy man you are.
Do you know what makes life interesting?
It's interesting because we don't
know what the future holds for us.
Don't blame fate.
We decide our fate, it's our choice.
You can't pick and choose
your sexual persuasion,
but you can certainly choose
the way you live your life.
Stop here!
Here? I'm a little-frightened.
Yes. You said you want something unique.
OK. Whatever.
Let's start.
Ah!
Give me your necklace, watch and wallet.
You rob me or just play a game?
Do I look like I'm playing? Take it off.
And your phone.
If you report me to the police and I'm
arrested I will tell them why I robbed you.
And you will be shamed.
What will your family and friends
think about you? Just think!
Why haven't you been here all week?
I'm working another
street and hooking up online.
Has Khoi contacted you yet?
When have money, I'll go look for Khoi.
To be happy, one needs money I need
lots of money, even if At's dangerous!
Robber, Robber, Robber...
Ahh.. Help! Help! Help me Help me.
Is this the same duck?
If you hear Khap-Khap, that's
the male And Cap-Cap, it's female.
Khap-Khap-Khap.
Cap-Cap-Cap.
You're crazy
We are human, not duck.
You're a crazy boy and I'm a whore.
They can call me a bitch, a dog, a horse
or whatever but no one ever call me a duck.
In my village there was a
lady named Mrs. Sau "Duck"
She used to raise thousands of ducks.
After the bird flu, her
ducks were killed and buried.
Even though she didn't have any left people
still called her Sau Vit. Isn't that funny?
I'm luckier than her.
After she buried the
last duck, she went mad,
wandered about in the
street all day and night,
cap-cap, khap-khap... thinking
that she's a duck, poor thing!
(pimp ) That's her.
Damn, seems the nutcase today
has enough money to pay our whore.
Where's the money, bitch?
I don't have any money.
You didn't take the
money from him? Hey, money.
I came here by myself.
Oh, you have nothing else to do?
Move, this is my business, leave me,
Your job is to work on the street.
Now you are not working. You come
here to play. You're that free? Bitch!
I had my period today.
Period!
Now you are telling lies to me
With all my bitches I
know when their periods are.
Yours is on the 28th, that's in another 10
days It can't be earlier than 10 days, right?
I don't know why it is earlier this month
Pull your pants down for me to check.
If you're lying I'm going
to beat you to death, get it?
Turn your face away.
Damn, a whore who is shy
at pulling her pants down!
Let me pull them down
quicker. This whore is so tricky
Fuck! You're wasting our time. Pull your pants
down. Or you want to be like this stupid dog?
Do it! I'll do it.
Shit! Pull them up, that's horrible Today is
our bad luck! Let's get the hell out of here.
Cuoi, Cuoi, Cuoi!
He isn't going to die. Tell him. if he wants
to live, not to tell anybody about this.
You keep your mouth shut too
Cuoi, Cuoi!
Eh, go get that duck We'll eat
it to get rid of the bad luck.
Cuoi, Cuoi!
It's so easy to catch.
Fuck! Bitch! Animal! Money!
Not treating me like human.
Here? OK.
I love it here. Adventurous!
I'm sure you love it.
Hey, son of a bitch, remember me?
I'll return all your belongings.
All of them.
Your thought is simple!
I don't need those things.
What I need is to revenge.
You have humiliated me
it's your turn to pay the price.
Hit him.
Yes.
Found one?
Not yet.
What's your budget?
5-700 hundred dong.
For that price you won't find
your own place You need to share.
The ones you like are most
wanted, how can you get it?
Listen. The place I'm renting is
2 million a month fully furnished.
If you want to share,
you can pay 700.000 dong.
That's great. Thank you so much.
I have two cats. Do you hate cats?
No problem.
Great. I'm Dong.
I'm Khoi.
The apartment is near here.
Come have a look, then decide.
-Go. -Yes.
How old are you?
20!
What are you going to do here in Saigon?
I don't know yet. I just wanted to find
a place to stay and than I'll see.
Why did you really come to Saigon?
Because people said Saigon is an easy place to
live and there are opportunities for everyone.
It's paradise, right?
Correct!
I live with my little brother.
Hey, wake up, Lam.
What for?
Wake up! Someone has come to live with us.
What?
What do you mean?
Someone to share the rent. This is Khoi.
He seems to be nice, so I invited
him to share the place with us.
Bizarre!
Take a seat over there, I
need a private chat with Lam.
What's going on? Why did
you let him move in with us?
Jealous?
No way.
You and Lam take the
bed, I'll take the sofa.
Or if you don't mind, we can
all share the bed. How's that?
Whatever. I'm easy.
Good, we all share.
Do you snore?
Oh no!
Good, OK
Then first give me the
700.000 dong for the rent.
For the utility bills,
we split it in three.
It's not that much, about
300 to 400.000 dong in total.
I want it to be fair so we
can get along with each other.
Yes, OK.
Here you are!
Why don't you first go take a shower and then
I'll take you to register at the police station.
You smell, bro.
I smell too but you go first
I like to take a long shower.
You can put your stuff in that wardrobe.
Thanks.
Did you see his money?
He kept it all with him. Now what?
Just grab them.
Lets meet at the cafe near the newsstand!
Khoi, I need to get something.
OK!
Hey, what are you doing?
Stop!
Stop! What are you doing?
Give my things back! Stop!
Stop! Give my things back!
Did you check his bag?
Auntie Sau, give me an
iced coffee with milk.
Is there anything valuable?
Nothing but clothes and shoes.
Where's his money?
37 million dong.
Wow!
He's from Nha Trang. What
if he tells the police?
Who will trust him?
We didn't register ourselves there.
I'm only worried about the landlady.
Once she's looking forus,
there's no way to hide.
Here, no one cares about others.
No one knows those two guys.
Thanks.
The deposit is 3 millions minus the utility
charge for this month is about 300.000 dong,
So you keep the remaining
of 2, 7 millions dong.
Thank you.
Done. What a greedy bitch!
Khoi has lost all his papers,
how can he get a job?
Should we find a way to
give him his papers back?
He'll go back to his hometown.
It's best for him.
Poor guy!'so innocent!
Saigon isn't the easy
place that he thought.
And us?
Now we have some cash we can
do whatever we want, We'll see.
Can you buy me a spicy sandwich?
I am starving.
Just get some instant noodle here.
Im craving for spicy sandwich. Just at the left of the
corner about 2 Om, you'll find the bread stand there.
Yes, I know it.
-Still have money? -About 100.000 dong.
-Don't for get lots of chilli! -Yep.
Bring those back right now!
Now!
Auntie Sau, where's my friend?
He left in hurry.
Hi, baby.
Are you leaving me?
Yes, I will get out of SaiGon
and do my business somewhere else.
Take care of the cats for me.
Good luck, baby I love you, baby.
I am free now.
Getting cheated is your problem.
I don't care about people's business.
I just caught you stealing
my TV and DVD player.
You can go to jail for a few years.
That's for sure.
Get lost!
Or Is cream.
Give me 300
How much?
- Both of you? - Yes!
For one time or the whole night?
Who can do it for the whole
night? We have to work in the morning.
800.000 for both.
500.000.
100.000 more please!
500.000! That's it! For 600.000 we
could have a much younger one, Grandma!
OK how about 100.000 dong
more That's 400.000, OK?
You're picky for a street
whore aren't you! Stupid bitch!
What a cheap bastard!
How much?
500.000 dong
The others are only 2 to 300.000 dong.
You get what you pay for!
OK, 500.000. You take care. of the room!
Rooms are only 70.000
dong an hour around here.
You're not going to lose me. over
a few measly thousand dong are you?
Come on then.
First time as a porter?
Yes.
Are you a runaway?
It's not easy to survive in Saigon.
If you can, go back home.
It's the rainy season and not good to sleep in the
street. To share a room is 10, 000 dong each, want to?
Sleep together?
Yep, like sardines in a tin.
That's why it's only 10.000 dong.
-How much? -700.000 dong.
500.000. OK?
How many guys so far?
Two.
What?
Only two up to now?
Who's that?
The crazy guy!
Damn, when he's here who
would dare to come near you.
Hey, wanna fuck that girl?
Give me money.
No money?
Fuck off!
You want to replace us?
I'll be at the shit out of you!
Get the fuck out of here!
Fuck off!
Gosh!
Hurry up or I'll beat you. Hurry!
Go!
You, how many already?
(man singing ) "If you hit me,
I will tell your mommy"
You just get here from the brothels?
No, I work on my own.
I used to stand in another area.
Working at the brothels has its advantages.
We don't have to brave the wind and rain,
but the hours and the money isn't so great.
If you go with a 400.000 dong client
then the brothel owner takes half of it.
If you get caught by the
police we're all in bloody jail.
Out here, you work whenever
and wherever you like.
Take a vacation even! Sometimes I even switch
corners so the customers think I'm fresh trade!
My name is Long.
lam
Good traffic on this street?
Depends, you have the makings of a
hot boy, I don't think you need to worry.
I hope so.
(singing ) If you hit
me, I will tell your mommy,
Go. Go! Get out of here quickly!
The pimps will beat you up if they
see you here and will beat me too.
Go!
Crazy!
What are you listening to?
The ducklings inside the eggs are crying.
The ducklings inside the
eggs are crying-Understand?
Hot water make the ducklings crying.
What are you doing?
Hey, Cuoi, why are you so excited?
You hatch an egg?
Crazy!
Want some?
They said you are hatching an egg?
Where?
Can I see?
You painted this? Female?
You like the female one?
What if it won't hatch?
Hey!
When it grows up, you'll marry it?
Hey!
Put it in a bucket of water.
If it turns around, it means it is
going to hatch otherwise it's dead.
Remember this!
Hello!
I told your not to change your phone
number you can lose a lot of customers.
What do you want?
Why are you so tense? How are the cats?
So so!
And you?
Fine!
Who's that?
My ex.
So you changed your phone
number because you're mad at me?
I just got back to Saigon,
I looked for your new number first.
You gave it to everyone but me.
You must be upset with me.
Then one of our previous
customers gave it to me.
I'm glad you're still doing the same thing.
What do you want?
I just came back and don't have
a place to stay, no one to love.
remember the great time we had
together and I want to resume it.
I don't want to see you
again I want to have a new life.
A new life but with the old
job What's the difference?
The difference is is that it's without you,
that's enough Do not call me again. I won't talk to you.
He was my first love.
Wanna come stay with me?
He took care of me taught
me everything about being gay.
A friend of mine is
coming over for a visit soon.
I want us to have sex with him.
You and I will have sex with him.
Are you insane?
It's just sex.
But we are in love.
It's something new, It'll be hot.
I can't! It's not my thing, I can't do it.
How do you know if you don't try?
First time for everything right?.
But I don't want to.
But I want to, and I want
you to do the things I want.
Baby, remember to do the best at what
have taught you, don't disappoint me!
Did you go along with it?
I didn't want to lose him I loved
him and believed everything he said.
but the truth was even more horrifying.
Why don't you take a shower?
He's gone. He left you this.
It's a million. He gave us 3 millions.
I took 2 millions,
one for you because he's my customer.
Okay, make it straight!
He's not my friend, he's my customer,
and for some damn reason today,
he was in the mood for something extra.
Normally, the price is one million, but in this
special case. he was willing to give us 3 millions.
You mean...
It means that I'm a prostitute and
you just did it for the first time.
Take it.
Damn you, why did you do that,
Why? Why did you do that to me?
So what the fuck did you think my job was?
I'm a prostitute, It's how I make
a living so enough fun and games.
It's about time you start making a living I'll
help you get customers Then you find them yourself.
Leave that all there.
I bought them all with my
money, you still owe me plenty.
Nothing in life is for free.
Why didn't you leave him?
I left, but I came back.
Why?
Because I still loved him.
You still loved him although
the treated you like that?
Love is hard to explain.
Sometimes you don't know why you love a
person even when they are not good for you.
The feeling of being with a customer and
your lover at the same time was revolting,
but luckily I no longer loved
him, so things got easier.
So you no longer loved him,
you're even disgusted by him!
When you are a prostitute,
no matter how many people you are intimate
with, you still feel lonely and empty inside.
am scared of that feeling. I need someone
to lean on, even if that person's a low life.
Why don't you look for someone else?
Look for a normal guy?
Who'd accept me as I am?
And to love someone in the same business,
Long you know as well as me, prostitutes,
most of them, sell
both their body and soul.
Dong is the same, but he understands me.
That's why I couldn't leave him,
just like a faithful dog.
Where is your egg, Cuoi?
Still being hatched or was it boiled?
Oh, you got me. Here's your money.
Lam, let's have sex together tonight.
Are you nuts? If you want sex, do it later
with a customer. Get laid and get paid for it.
I don't want to do it with a customer.
Tonight I want to have sex with you.
And not just tonight, I've wanted it for
a long time Let's find a motel, my treat.
No!
OK then, Ill pay you 500.000.
Treat me as a customer.
I can't make love to you.
It's too weird I don't feel comfortable.
Why weird? You have done it with
hundreds of guys already why not with me?
I don't have any diseases, no HIV here.
Because two gay whores having sex
with each other is just sad and pathetic.
I've loved someone with this same occupation
before and I don't want to go through it again.
It was a terrible experience.
Cuoi what are you holding
so seriously and carefully?
Is that the duckling from the hatched egg?
You're so good, Cuoi!
I've never seen anyone able to
hatch an eggs before! Excellent!
Cuoi! With your life it's
not easy to keep a duck.
Maybe if you had a wife a
woman's sense would make you normal.
Oops, how do you know I'm here?
What are you so happy about?
Got money to fuck me?
400.000 for one time, 700.000
for the whole night. Money. Hurry!
Damn it, why are you so excited?
Ah, is it from the hatched egg.
Oh! So cute! So lovely!
Give it grasshoppers, little fishes
and insects, and it'll grow quickly.
Before, my family used to have 200 ducks.
Ducks are easy to raise,
but also die easily.
One morning when I went to the
tent to take them into the rice field,
and I found them all dead
not a single one survived.
There was an epidemic in the
Mekong delta and all the ducks died.
Most people left for
Saigon because of that
Bitches, give me the
money Go! Go! Go! Hurry!
Go! Go Go!
Fuck you, why do you always
stick around her? Go! Go!
Go!
Fuck this bitch! Why don't you pay attention to
your work just fucking playing with this moron.
Remind of your old job?
Give me the duck.
Motherfucker! Give me.
Stop!
Give it back to him.
Oh my gosh! Today you have the guts!
You dare to fight me because of this duck.
You're dead. I'll kill it
first then I'll kill you both.
Give it back to him or I'll stab you.
I'll stab you!
Come on, give it back to him. That
bitch is crazy. She will stab you.
Go! Go!
Fuck! You want to die? Fuck you! Asshole!
Don't kick her face, she need to work.
Damn, how dare you bitch, you whore!
Hi, honey!
I've been looking for you. You
changed your number and never call me.
I thought you'd be miserable
without me, but I guess I was wrong.
It's sad to think about that.
I disgust you.
Damn you.
You think it's that easy to get rid of me?
I want you to come back
with me... like the old days.
Never.
Son-of-a-bitch, where are you? Come here.
You dog. Come here, come here.
Shut up! Are you crazy, bastard?
Why are you screaming at
this hour? Fucking crazy!
I'm going to kill you!
Cool down man, calm down!
Let me go. Calm down,
I want to talk to you.
You son-of-a-bitch! Let me go! Calm down!
Calm down!
Are you calm?
You fool, why didn't you
go back to your home town?
Where are you going?
None of your damn business!
Leave me the fuck alone!
Want to come live with me?
Then what? So you can cheat me again?
What the fuck do you
have now for me to cheat?
I just want to help you.
You are gay, right?
How do you know I'm gay?
Because I'm gay too.
I only need a quick glance
to know who's gay, who's not
Why do you want to help me?
At first I just wanted to return your
things, but when I thought about it,
your situation was exactly like
mine when I first came to Saigon.
And secondly I need a companion, to wash away
the blues. And by the looks of things, so do you.
Why don't you go back to your home town?
Huh?
Idiot, why didn't you go back to
your home town after you were cheated?
Because there is no place
left for me back there.
Even your family?
Your family found out about you?
Yes.
Then you stuck.
What do you intend to do in SaiGon?
I don't know. When I need to move on, Ill I
just go anywhere I believe is the best place.
Let's sleep.
Why did you tell me about you and Dong?
I want you to know who you're living with.
I don't want you to be like me then.
Wait here. I need to go to the toilet.
How are you, Lam? Hey, Hung. I'm fine.
After the movie, go with me!
7.00 at the same motel?
Sorry, tonight I'm with my friend
Oh, The guy with his broken
leg in cast is your customer?
No, he's my boyfriend.
Ask him to come, I'll pay double.
No, he's not in the game.
300 USD for the whole night.
You two do it and I'll watch.
Son of a bitch!
How much?
500.000, please!
500.000?
OK. Come on!
Here we are!
-Here? Not at your house? -Yes.
-Here, you'll have to pay me 100.000 more
-OK.
Son-of-a-bitch,
you think I'm a fag like you?
Hit him.
Ahh... Help! Help! Help me! Help me...
This is for you!
Thank you.
Ut!
Go get some rice and food.
Hey Ut!
Hi!
Hi!
My colleague.
Please tell the board of directors that they
must take some responsibilities for Long.
They shouldn't just
abandon him be like this.
Yes, I will tell them.
-OK! -Here is some money for medicine.
I'll go get the medicine You
stay here with Long. Thank you.
You go sleep first, don't
wait for me, I'll be back late.
You go out to work again?
Yes.
Please don't go!
It's my job, it's just work.
Please don't go.
You have the stranger's smell.
Take a shower!
You really love me?
Yes. Very much.
So how can you continue
to go out with customers?
Because I am a professional prostitute.
Do you know what being a
professional prostitute means?
It means you have to divide
yourself into two separate parts.
Your body is the tool to earn money.
The customer's money can only
buy my body to satisfy themselves,
but they can never touch my
heart which belongs to you.
It won't be long before
you get used to it.
Early next week I'll work.
Just wait until you are fully recovered.
Tomorrow my cast comes off.
What job? If it's too hard,
I won't allow you to do it.
No, it's a wonderful job
at the second hand bookshop.
The owner is a very nice retired teacher.
She said when there are no customers, I'm free to read
books and I can borrow books to take home as well.
Salary?
-Two millions from 10 am to 6 pm.
-OK. Good.
But listen, the best thing
is that she needs two salesmen.
I told her about you and
she agreed to meet you at 2 pm.
We can work at the same place.
It's what I've been dreaming of.
I won't do that. I have my own job.
Thought you wanted to get out of it.
I tried to quit several
times, but I failed.
Try once more. You're living
with me now, not with Dong.
Whoever I live with, it's the same.
This is my life, my fate I accept
it, and you should accept it too.
-Yes -Why are you crying?
Oh... the book is too emotional.
Oh dear... That book moved you? Funny!
Hey, don't tell me you
are here to get customers?
What's the other option?
Stay and starve at home?
With that leg, how are you
going to find a customer?
Who knows, may be I'll catch
a customer into cripples!
Take this. You should go home
Come back when your leg is healed
It'll be forever before my leg heals.
You can't give me money every day you know.
Consider it a loan. I'll pay you back
when I have some left over. Thanks a lot.
I am so bored at home I can't stand
it I'm used to the atmosphere here.
I wonder with this unique leg
should I raise the price or lower it?
Be careful, or you'll get it broken again.
What's wrong? Why the dark face?
Huh?
The duck is gone, right?
What's the...?
Wanna buy ducklings?
15.000 dong per one.
How many you want? Pick!
Put it here.
Just one?
Put it here.
Start the day with just one duckling. Damn!
Ducklings. Ducklings.
What? Want some more? Go ahead.
What?
Return?
The whole morning just one duckling.
What a trouble maker!
Go away.
Go away. Fuck you.
Today, I may have to
eat all these ducklings.
What's a mess!
Sleep, please!
Get out of here!
-Get off. -Get off.
Get off.
Get off. Get off.
So this is the reason why you
didn't want to get back with me.
Go! Leave! Never in a million
years will I get back with you!
You're so cruel and cold to your first love,
the one who loved you and taught you everything.
Get out of here.
You resemble me more and
more every day. I like it.
Give me back my money!
Search me.
If you find any money,
you're welcome to it.
Fuck you. Let go of him. Let go of him.
You two seem to enjoy the pain.
Remember you both
started this first, not me.
How about this,
I'm renting a very
nice big room near here.
Why don't the three of us go
there have a little fun together.
Damn you, that's never going to happen.
Fuck, you think Lam will love
you for the rest of your life?
He's a whore, he says he loves you
but still goes and sleep with other guys.
Shut up!
... and one day he'll turn
you into a whore like him.
Shut up!
What the fuck is there to keep
a gay love like yours permanent?
Stable? Fickle like a child with toys. Hook up, have
a bit of fun, once you're over it, find another toy.
Being gay and a whore, your
future is fucking bright isn't it!
Bastard, get out of here, otherwise...
Otherwise? Otherwise what?
What do you going to do to me?
If you don't get out, I'll stab you.
Bravo! You're more masculine every
ti me I see you. It turns me on.
Leave!
Disrespectful child!
What the hell are you doing?
It's you who taught me
to be cruel to survive.
Get out!
Don't blame me.
You forced me to do it.
And I'll do it again if you
keep interfering with my life.
Fuck off!
I did it to protect us.
Please quit...
When you love someone, you have to. give
both your body and your soul to that person.
What you have told me were just excuses.
Either you don't love me, or your love is not
big enough for you to quit your job for me.
Right?
I don't believe in love anymore.
Dong is right.
Though I love you very much, in my mind I always
think that sooner or later this love will evaporate.
I don't hold such high hopes.
I take it a day at a time.
That's the reality of gay love especially
for one with an occupation like mine.
If I quit this job for you, and find another one,
when we break up, I will just go back to it.
Everything you say is true?
Yes, absolutely.
What are you doing here?
How did you know I was here?
I am asking you what you
are doing here!? Go home now!
Go home now!
No!
What's wrong with you today?
Have you lost your mind?
I want to work like you.
What? You want to be a male prostitute?
I stopped working in the bookshop.
I came here to find customers with you.
Ouch! -Are you nuts? Wake up!
Go home!
Go home... Get out of here right now!
If you can do it, I can do it.
What's wrong with you today?
Nothing. I'm fine.
Let's go home and talk.
No, I intend to find a customer today.
Are you trying to piss me off?
Go on, do it then. I want to
see if you dare go with one
Is that what you think?
Just wait. When I get a customer,
you'll see if I'm pretending or not.
Oh wow, fresh meat. How much?
How much is OK?
It's his first time,
give him 1 million won't you?
Whatever ladies. You all claim to
be first-timers to raise your prices.
When in actual fact you're all just
moving from one corner to the next.
500.000 dong, that's it no more no less.
Is that OK?
Come on!
Get on.
Come on.
Good price! Go!
You drive me please!
Khoi!
Khoi, stop, don't go Khoi
Khoi, come back please...
Get up! Breakfast!
I bought some food for us!
Damn you. Why did you do that?
What the hell is wrong with you? Huh?
Once you begin... once you get into this world
you can't stop. You understand that you fool!
You want to know why?
I want you to know the feeling of waiting for you every
night to come home after you've been with your customer.
How do you feel?
Horrible, isn't it?
Last night, I didn't go with that guy.
I got off his bike and kept wandering the street
the whole night, thinking about our relationship.
We need to break up!
You and I came to this city
imagining it to be paradise,
but in reality we are in a living nightmare,
a personal hell which we have been creating ourselves.
I can't continue to live like this.
This is not the way I want to live.
Let's quit the job.
How long do you think
you can keep on doing this?
Do you want to be a ragged old man staggering
on the pavement, waiting for a customer?
Is that how you want to end up?
Yes, if that's what fate
holds for me then I accept it.
What a cowardly,
pathetically unhappy man you are.
Do you know what makes life interesting?
It's interesting because we don't
know what the future holds for us.
Don't blame fate.
We decide our fate, it's our choice.
You can't pick and choose
your sexual persuasion,
but you can certainly choose
the way you live your life.
Stop here!
Here? I'm a little-frightened.
Yes. You said you want something unique.
OK. Whatever.
Let's start.
Ah!
Give me your necklace, watch and wallet.
You rob me or just play a game?
Do I look like I'm playing? Take it off.
And your phone.
If you report me to the police and I'm
arrested I will tell them why I robbed you.
And you will be shamed.
What will your family and friends
think about you? Just think!
Why haven't you been here all week?
I'm working another
street and hooking up online.
Has Khoi contacted you yet?
When have money, I'll go look for Khoi.
To be happy, one needs money I need
lots of money, even if At's dangerous!
Robber, Robber, Robber...
Ahh.. Help! Help! Help me Help me.
Is this the same duck?
If you hear Khap-Khap, that's
the male And Cap-Cap, it's female.
Khap-Khap-Khap.
Cap-Cap-Cap.
You're crazy
We are human, not duck.
You're a crazy boy and I'm a whore.
They can call me a bitch, a dog, a horse
or whatever but no one ever call me a duck.
In my village there was a
lady named Mrs. Sau "Duck"
She used to raise thousands of ducks.
After the bird flu, her
ducks were killed and buried.
Even though she didn't have any left people
still called her Sau Vit. Isn't that funny?
I'm luckier than her.
After she buried the
last duck, she went mad,
wandered about in the
street all day and night,
cap-cap, khap-khap... thinking
that she's a duck, poor thing!
(pimp ) That's her.
Damn, seems the nutcase today
has enough money to pay our whore.
Where's the money, bitch?
I don't have any money.
You didn't take the
money from him? Hey, money.
I came here by myself.
Oh, you have nothing else to do?
Move, this is my business, leave me,
Your job is to work on the street.
Now you are not working. You come
here to play. You're that free? Bitch!
I had my period today.
Period!
Now you are telling lies to me
With all my bitches I
know when their periods are.
Yours is on the 28th, that's in another 10
days It can't be earlier than 10 days, right?
I don't know why it is earlier this month
Pull your pants down for me to check.
If you're lying I'm going
to beat you to death, get it?
Turn your face away.
Damn, a whore who is shy
at pulling her pants down!
Let me pull them down
quicker. This whore is so tricky
Fuck! You're wasting our time. Pull your pants
down. Or you want to be like this stupid dog?
Do it! I'll do it.
Shit! Pull them up, that's horrible Today is
our bad luck! Let's get the hell out of here.
Cuoi, Cuoi, Cuoi!
He isn't going to die. Tell him. if he wants
to live, not to tell anybody about this.
You keep your mouth shut too
Cuoi, Cuoi!
Eh, go get that duck We'll eat
it to get rid of the bad luck.
Cuoi, Cuoi!
It's so easy to catch.
Fuck! Bitch! Animal! Money!
Not treating me like human.
Here? OK.
I love it here. Adventurous!
I'm sure you love it.
Hey, son of a bitch, remember me?
I'll return all your belongings.
All of them.
Your thought is simple!
I don't need those things.
What I need is to revenge.
You have humiliated me
it's your turn to pay the price.
Hit him.