south east asia culture and society : "Three seasons" & vietnam today.

The film “Three Seasons” was made in 1999 by Tony Bui, an ethnic Vietnamese. As a boy, his family migrated to seek a better life in the United States, where he, while barely out of film school made this directorial debut based on his experiences of his many trips back to Vietnam.
“Three Seasons” is set in Ho Chi Minh City, on the south of Vietnam. The recurring theme here is the urbanization, modernization and the western capitalism that comes with it. The main characters in this film do not meet, but are similar in that they are the consequences of this modernization of Ho Chi Minh city and, possibly, of rural-urban migration.
During the Vietnam War, many refugees fled to the cities and towns. Although many moved back to the villages following reunification (of north and south Vietnam) in 1976, some did not, thereby contributing to rapid urban growth characteristic of Southeast Asian countries since the pacific war (Hill, 2002).
People are migrating from the rural areas to...