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...welts. Pang never gets much momentum going here; he's happy to synopsize the genre conventions. And thriller directors never tire of "referencing" the shower scene from Hitchcock's Psycho. In Takashi Shimizu's The Grudge, a girl steps into the shower and starts washing her hair. As she rubs in the shampoo, she reaches to the back of her head and feels ... a third hand! It's clammy, it's dead and, when she whirls around in fright, it's gone...
...film primacy from Hong Kong, make the most of their borrowings from other cultures. Jang Jun Hwan's Save the Green Planet! has a paranoid science-fiction premise: that aliens are to take over Earth at the next lunar eclipse and that, our deranged hero believes, they use their hair to broadcast telepathic signals. You've heard this before, possibly from someone muttering next to you on a bus. But then the madness escalates: for a while you think the movie is going crazy; then you realize that the insanity is contagious...
...That's where we meet Mr. Truong, our guide. His card reveals he's a manager in a state-run tourism company. But we're wondering if he's a government spy. He seems strangely jittery about us talking to people on the road. And then there's his hair. In two years working as a correspondent in Vietnam, I've developed a private theory about communist officials and combovers: the lower the part, the higher the rank...
...Truong's starts about five centimeters above his ear-even though, at 33, he's still got a full head of hair. Mr. Truong tells us adamantly that no one will be willing to give us directions. But after a morning of asking around we find Trinh Thi Minh Thu. Now 63, she lives just a few clicks past Kilometer 0. Thu was 24 when she came to Tan Ky, one of thousands of "vanguard women" who built the original trail by hand. She shows me a photo of herself from that time: a young girl with a sideways smile...
...Dong Loc also has a shrine to a legendary platoon of vanguard women-all in their teens or early 20s-who died in one bombing in 1968. The 10 girls famously refused to let the hardship of war ruin their looks, washing their hair with paste from bo ket seeds and sharing combs and mirrors. If they were American, there would have been a TV series based on them. On each grave, there is a photo of a smiling girl wearing her battle helmet. Pilgrims have left offerings of plastic combs and compacts. Mr. Truong buys incense sticks and invites...