3 Generation of women
Still shot from footage
#Grandmother
As a storyteller, Alzheimer's disease feels like a ticking bomb, threatening to erase precious family history in an instant. Thus, I am driven to capture every fragment of my family's story before it's too late.
The TV program incident marked the beginning of a series of enduring tragedies that have unfolded since 1975. As a filmmaker delving into family's history from a contemporary perspective, it is baffling to imagine a society where a wife's worth is judged solely by her ability to keep her husband faithful, as dictated by social norms. I am also challenging the irony that communism, which was intended to liberate women, seemingly reproduced a patriarchal system in a different guise.
Furthermore, this story of women controlling each other within a family and invading others' privacy explores the concept of self-censorship. It is evident that my grandmother/mother has internalized the stereotype of women in Vietnam at the time, resulting in them policing their own thoughts and actions.
By interweaving the past and present, and structuring the film around the central storyline of three generations, my aim is to reflect the evolving development of Vietnam's society over the course of the last ninety years.