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I miscalculated my timing and missed my workout at the gym before their closing time at 8 pm. All of a sudden, there was a free time slot, a rare event these days. Given it's the long weekend, I decided to bicycle to the ByTowne Cinema and watched the late movie. Les Doigts Croches is a Quebecois comedy about five Montreal thieves trying to retrieve their loot after serving time in jail. They ended up near the Spanish-Franco border where they started a pilgrimage journey of over 800 km. I quite enjoyed the ending which you will need to find out for yourself. Mais oui !!Related lotusandcedar articles:
* Camino de Santiago / The Way of St. James (Part 1 of 2)
* Running the Camino de Santiago "The Way": Jenny Biondi Anderson 815.6 km, 9 days 5 hrs 29 min (Part 2 of 2)
References/photo credit:
* Wikipedia / Sticky Fingers (2009_film)
* Wikipedia / Les Doigts croches
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CBC coming weekend showing "Iron Road" a Sino Canadian co-production about a chinese girl came to build the transcanada railway who fell in love with a white canadian. The white cannucks can never accept a white girl fell for a chinese male.
http://www.ironroadthemovie.com/
A story of disguise and forbidden love, set against the building of the railroad
This is the story of three lives brought together in the high mountains of the west.
Lured by the myth of "Gum San", the Gold Mountain where fortunes are made, thousands of desperate Chinese workers leave their homeland with a dream – to make their fortune in North America by laying a coast-to-coast railroad through the treacherous mountain passes.
They learn that railroads only bring fortune to the few. They learn that building a railroad means explosives and iron, rock and wood. Every foot is purchased with muscle and sweat. Every mile is bought with courage, fear, and death.
The Canadian Pacific Railway, completed in 1885, was the last of the great iron roads built in North America and left behind a mythology that lives today as part of our heritage.
Iron Road is the story of the hard-won triumph of a Chinese street urchin named Little Tiger, whose quest for her long-lost father takes her from a fireworks factory in China to a remote construction camp in the Rockies. She falls in love, survives prejudice and treachery, and achieves a bittersweet fulfillment of her quest.
It’s the story of the transformation of James Nichol, the irresponsible son of a railroad tycoon, a night traveler without a star, into a man of character and purpose.
And it's the story of a Book Man, the Chinese overseer of Little Tiger's crew -- proud, scarred, a rebel hunted down by his enemies, struggling for revenge in that perilous world.
Their story is a window into the neglected history of how Chinese workers helped forge the railroad that held Canada together.
It begins in Southern China in a fireworks factory where Little Tiger ekes out a living, disguised
as a teenaged boy. A handsome North American playboy named James Nichol is about to walk into her life and change it forever.
The IRON ROAD story
It's 1882 and Alfred Nichol, the tycoon building the railroad through the massive Rocky mountains, faces bankruptcy! His banker, George Grant, would call his loans, except that his daughter is crazy about Nichol's playboy son, James.
Desperate, Nichol dispatches James to China to hire a crew of "Chinks" to blast a track through the rock, at rock-bottom wages.
When James arrives, he’s accosted by a street urchin nicknamed ‘Little Tiger’, whose fierce ambition is to get to North America, where his father died mysteriously, working on the railroad.
In a fight with a Chinese gang lord, Little Tiger saves James's life. James is grateful and agrees to hire the kid on his crew sailing to the new world.
He never suspects the truth: that Little Tiger is actually a beautiful young woman who has disguised herself to work in a man's world … and that she's falling in love with him!
As their railcar approaches the camp, Little Tiger sees grave markers along the track – signs of the Chinese who have died on the cliffs. And once they arrive, she’s in for more shocks: the white bosses are racists, the work is back-breaking, and her tyrannical Chinese boss, The Book Man, is involved in some kind of scam to pocket the wages of the dead Chinese workers.
At the same time, her attraction to James mounts until, under the moon at a secret mountain pool,
she decides to reveal her secret to him.
When the Book Man and his cohorts discover that Little Tiger is about to expose their scam, they plot a fatal "accident" for the kid on the sheer rock face.
Now everything is at stake -- Little Tiger's life, James's love for her, and her search for the truth about her father.
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In Canada, Hari big brother and hari sao is a rare case!
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Space: Thanks, I saw the ad on CBC too and look forward to watching it!!
>> ... a Chinese girl came to build the TransCanada railway who fell in love with a white Canadian. The white cannucks can never accept a white girl fell for a Chinese male.
Inter-racial marriages are becoming more common in Canada, esp when the 2nd and 3rd generations from post WW II immigrant families are getting married.
>> ... In Canada, Hari big brother and hari sao is a rare case!
Hey, who is "hari sao"? Are you speculating again? Some analyst you are @_@
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