Kundun

1:16:11

I thought he would be
some kind of monster,

1:16:14

even with horns growing
out of his head.

1:16:17

But he is only a man, just an ordinary
human being, like myself.

1:16:22

They are the worst
of the worst.

1:16:26

They're worse than ghosts.

1:16:52

We were like you.
We were an isolated country.

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Then trade began.
For our spices, silks, tea.

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But there was nothing that we,
the Chinese, wanted from the West.

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So they gave us something
to want: opium. We craved opium.

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They tried to use it
to destroy us, the imperialists.

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We are here to rescue you
from imperialists,
or they'll do the same to you.

1:17:28

You cannot imagine,
sitting here,

1:17:31

where I came from.

1:17:34

The floods,
the famines,

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were so bad.

1:17:40

China was fragmented.

1:17:43

Society was crumbling.

1:17:46

There was a day
before the war...

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when I came upon a man
with a dead baby.

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He was gonna cook it.

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He shouted, "It died.
I did not kill it. It died."