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* NoNameGiven: No one in the family Mui works for--grandma, parents, three sons--is ever named. Nor is Khuyen's girlfriend.
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* NoNameGiven: No one in The mother, the father and the grandma from the family Mui works for--grandma, parents, for are never given names, only the three sons--is ever named. Nor is sons of the family are named (Trung the eldest, Lam the middle one, and Tin the youngest one). Khuyen's girlfriend.girlfriend is also unnamed.
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Cut forward ten years. Mui has left her first employers and entered into service with a musician/composer, a friend of her first family whom Mui has had a crush on for years. The composer is engaged to a stylish young high-society woman, but he begins to develop feelings for Mui.
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Cut forward ten years. Mui has left her first employers and entered into service with Khuyen, a musician/composer, a friend of her first family whom Mui has had a crush on for years. The composer Khuyen is engaged to a stylish young high-society woman, but he begins to develop feelings for Mui.
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* LikeASonToMe: The mother gets emotional when Mui is preparing to leave her household and move in with the composer. She says "Thanks to you I've felt like I had a daughter."
* NeverLearnedToRead: Mui the humble Vietnamese serving girl is illiterate. After she and the composer get married he teaches her to read.
* NoNameGiven: No one in the family Mui works for--grandma, parents, three sons--is ever named. Nor are the composer and his girlfriend.
* ReturningTheWeddingRing: The composer's girlfriend ends her room-wrecking tantrum, after the breakup, by leaving her engagement ring on a table and walking out.
* RomanticFalseLead: The composer's fashionable girlfriend, who in the end is only a complication in the relationship between the composer and Mui.
* SexyDiscretionShot: Finally, finally, the composer enters Mui's room. She looks at him expectantly, the door closes, and the camera pans away.
* NeverLearnedToRead: Mui the humble Vietnamese serving girl is illiterate. After she and the composer get married he teaches her to read.
* NoNameGiven: No one in the family Mui works for--grandma, parents, three sons--is ever named. Nor are the composer and his girlfriend.
* ReturningTheWeddingRing: The composer's girlfriend ends her room-wrecking tantrum, after the breakup, by leaving her engagement ring on a table and walking out.
* RomanticFalseLead: The composer's fashionable girlfriend, who in the end is only a complication in the relationship between the composer and Mui.
* SexyDiscretionShot: Finally, finally, the composer enters Mui's room. She looks at him expectantly, the door closes, and the camera pans away.
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* LikeASonToMe: The mother gets emotional when Mui is preparing to leave her household and move in with the composer.Khuyen. She says "Thanks to you I've felt like I had a daughter."
* NeverLearnedToRead: Mui the humble Vietnamese serving girl is illiterate. After she andthe composer Khuyen get married he teaches her to read.
* NoNameGiven: No one in the family Mui works for--grandma, parents, three sons--is ever named. Norare the composer and his is Khuyen's girlfriend.
* ReturningTheWeddingRing:The composer's Khuyen's girlfriend ends her room-wrecking tantrum, after the breakup, by leaving her engagement ring on a table and walking out.
* RomanticFalseLead:The composer's Khuyen's fashionable girlfriend, who in the end is only a complication in the relationship between the composer and Mui.
* SexyDiscretionShot: Finally, finally,the composer Khuyen enters Mui's room. She looks at him expectantly, the door closes, and the camera pans away.
* NeverLearnedToRead: Mui the humble Vietnamese serving girl is illiterate. After she and
* NoNameGiven: No one in the family Mui works for--grandma, parents, three sons--is ever named. Nor
* ReturningTheWeddingRing:
* RomanticFalseLead:
* SexyDiscretionShot: Finally, finally,
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* SilenceIsGolden: It isn't a silent movie but dialogue is used rather sparingly. The long sequence at the end where Mui and the composer finally have sex, and the girlfriend smashes the hell out of the composer's room in a fit of rage, takes place without a word of dialogue.
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* SilenceIsGolden: It isn't a silent movie but dialogue is used rather sparingly. The long sequence at the end where Mui and the composer Khuyen finally have sex, and the girlfriend smashes the hell out of the composer's his room in a fit of rage, takes place without a word of dialogue.
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* TantrumThrowing: The composer's girlfriend reacts to their breakup by throwing quite the tantrum, in which she throws stuff around his living room and smashes his antique vase.
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* TantrumThrowing: The composer's Khuyen's girlfriend reacts to their breakup by throwing quite the tantrum, in which she throws stuff around his living room and smashes his antique vase.
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* TimeSkip: Ten years between Mui as a child in service to the merchant family, and Mui as a lovely grown woman in service to the composer.
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* TimeSkip: Ten years between Mui as a child in service to the merchant family, and Mui as a lovely grown woman in service to the composer.Khuyen.
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''The Scent of Green Papaya'' is a 1993 film from Vietnam directed by Tran Anh Hung.
The film opens in Saigon in 1951. Mui is a 10-year-old girl who has come into service with a rich merchant family. They are wealthy, but they have problems. The grandmother never leaves the upstairs bedroom, where she mourns her long-dead husband. The mother mourns her daughter Ti, who was a small child when she died several years ago. The father has a habit of taking the whole family bankroll and going on sprees that last for weeks. Eventually he goes on another spree, and tragedy ensues.
Cut forward ten years. Mui has left her first employers and entered into service with a musician/composer, a friend of her first family whom Mui has had a crush on for years. The composer is engaged to a stylish young high-society woman, but he begins to develop feelings for Mui.
Despite the fact this film is set in Saigon during the Vietnam War, the war is not relevant to the story except for some background detail, like when characters talk of a curfew, or fighter jets can be heard flying overhead.
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* BathtubScene: Or the functional equivalent thereof, as Mui washes by repeatedly pouring a basin of water over herself in an erotically charged scene.
* BladeOfGrassCut: There's a repeated motif of blade-of-grass cuts. Extreme closeups of tree sap dripping, frogs croaking, crickets chirping, ants skittering around. Many of these shots have Mui watching in joy and wonder.
* FoodPorn: Multiple scenes have Mui preparing incredibly delicious, succulent-looking meals for her employers.
* FriendTOAllLivingThings: Mui takes simple joy in watching ants crawling around, or frogs croaking, or crickets chirping. Eventually she gets a tiny little wicker cage and makes a cricket her pet.
* GlassesPull: The husband comes back from his latest spree desperately ill. A doctor feels the husband's pulse and then takes his glasses off as he leaves the room with a look of concern. Soon the husband is dead.
* LikeASonToMe: The mother gets emotional when Mui is preparing to leave her household and move in with the composer. She says "Thanks to you I've felt like I had a daughter."
* NeverLearnedToRead: Mui the humble Vietnamese serving girl is illiterate. After she and the composer get married he teaches her to read.
* NoNameGiven: No one in the family Mui works for--grandma, parents, three sons--is ever named. Nor are the composer and his girlfriend.
* ReturningTheWeddingRing: The composer's girlfriend ends her room-wrecking tantrum, after the breakup, by leaving her engagement ring on a table and walking out.
* RomanticFalseLead: The composer's fashionable girlfriend, who in the end is only a complication in the relationship between the composer and Mui.
* SexyDiscretionShot: Finally, finally, the composer enters Mui's room. She looks at him expectantly, the door closes, and the camera pans away.
* ShrineToTheFallen: The grandma keeps a candlelit shrine with pictures of her long-dead husband and her little granddaughter Ti. She never leaves the room.
* SilenceIsGolden: It isn't a silent movie but dialogue is used rather sparingly. The long sequence at the end where Mui and the composer finally have sex, and the girlfriend smashes the hell out of the composer's room in a fit of rage, takes place without a word of dialogue.
* SliceOfLife: A quiet little drama about a gentle housemaid and the difference she makes in the lives of people around her.
* TantrumThrowing: The composer's girlfriend reacts to their breakup by throwing quite the tantrum, in which she throws stuff around his living room and smashes his antique vase.
* TimeShiftedActor: Two different actresses play Mui at 10 and 20.
* TimeSkip: Ten years between Mui as a child in service to the merchant family, and Mui as a lovely grown woman in service to the composer.
* VisualTitleDrop: Mui harvests unripe green papayas from a tree in the backyard, and chops them up for meals.
The film opens in Saigon in 1951. Mui is a 10-year-old girl who has come into service with a rich merchant family. They are wealthy, but they have problems. The grandmother never leaves the upstairs bedroom, where she mourns her long-dead husband. The mother mourns her daughter Ti, who was a small child when she died several years ago. The father has a habit of taking the whole family bankroll and going on sprees that last for weeks. Eventually he goes on another spree, and tragedy ensues.
Cut forward ten years. Mui has left her first employers and entered into service with a musician/composer, a friend of her first family whom Mui has had a crush on for years. The composer is engaged to a stylish young high-society woman, but he begins to develop feelings for Mui.
Despite the fact this film is set in Saigon during the Vietnam War, the war is not relevant to the story except for some background detail, like when characters talk of a curfew, or fighter jets can be heard flying overhead.
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!!Tropes:
* BathtubScene: Or the functional equivalent thereof, as Mui washes by repeatedly pouring a basin of water over herself in an erotically charged scene.
* BladeOfGrassCut: There's a repeated motif of blade-of-grass cuts. Extreme closeups of tree sap dripping, frogs croaking, crickets chirping, ants skittering around. Many of these shots have Mui watching in joy and wonder.
* FoodPorn: Multiple scenes have Mui preparing incredibly delicious, succulent-looking meals for her employers.
* FriendTOAllLivingThings: Mui takes simple joy in watching ants crawling around, or frogs croaking, or crickets chirping. Eventually she gets a tiny little wicker cage and makes a cricket her pet.
* GlassesPull: The husband comes back from his latest spree desperately ill. A doctor feels the husband's pulse and then takes his glasses off as he leaves the room with a look of concern. Soon the husband is dead.
* LikeASonToMe: The mother gets emotional when Mui is preparing to leave her household and move in with the composer. She says "Thanks to you I've felt like I had a daughter."
* NeverLearnedToRead: Mui the humble Vietnamese serving girl is illiterate. After she and the composer get married he teaches her to read.
* NoNameGiven: No one in the family Mui works for--grandma, parents, three sons--is ever named. Nor are the composer and his girlfriend.
* ReturningTheWeddingRing: The composer's girlfriend ends her room-wrecking tantrum, after the breakup, by leaving her engagement ring on a table and walking out.
* RomanticFalseLead: The composer's fashionable girlfriend, who in the end is only a complication in the relationship between the composer and Mui.
* SexyDiscretionShot: Finally, finally, the composer enters Mui's room. She looks at him expectantly, the door closes, and the camera pans away.
* ShrineToTheFallen: The grandma keeps a candlelit shrine with pictures of her long-dead husband and her little granddaughter Ti. She never leaves the room.
* SilenceIsGolden: It isn't a silent movie but dialogue is used rather sparingly. The long sequence at the end where Mui and the composer finally have sex, and the girlfriend smashes the hell out of the composer's room in a fit of rage, takes place without a word of dialogue.
* SliceOfLife: A quiet little drama about a gentle housemaid and the difference she makes in the lives of people around her.
* TantrumThrowing: The composer's girlfriend reacts to their breakup by throwing quite the tantrum, in which she throws stuff around his living room and smashes his antique vase.
* TimeShiftedActor: Two different actresses play Mui at 10 and 20.
* TimeSkip: Ten years between Mui as a child in service to the merchant family, and Mui as a lovely grown woman in service to the composer.
* VisualTitleDrop: Mui harvests unripe green papayas from a tree in the backyard, and chops them up for meals.
