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is in a sordid Bangkok that Cain Garver finds Tran-Kwe, while he is
looking for his daughter.
Tran-Kwe is Soo-Li’s sister. She is in turn victim and executioner,
but above all she is never the one we believe she is, and no one really
knows her real intentions.
Tran-Kwe
does not want young Ming Li to leave the city; she does not want her to
leave with Cain for the United States. Tran-Kwe’s
real motivations are unknown to us, but during her first meetings with
Cain, she assures him that Ming Li does not want to leave this country,
does not want to leave with this father resurfaced from nowhere. If,
the first time, policemen allow her to escape from Cain, this will not
be the case the next time.
She
explains to Cain the reality for Ming Li : her father died and abandoned
her and her mother. Today, obeying the last wishes of her sister, she
takes care of Ming Li as if she were her daughter. She
even gives Cain letters, written by Ming Li’s hand, in which the
teenager swears not to want him in her life. Cain is not fooled,
he knows how to read in Tran-Kwe’s game : he understands that she
wants to keep Ming Li with her for the money that she brings her. Later,
she organizes a meeting between Ming Li and Cain.
As
her meeting with Phillip Hamilton will show it, Tran-Kwe is a drug
addicted woman who fights to survive, to be able to continue living in
the world she wants to build herself through drugs. However,
in front of Phillip Hamilton, she shows courage and assumes her
sister’s truth : she never felt love for him; she
really loved Cain Garver.
If
she wants to keep Ming Li near her, it is only for the money that she
can bring him, because she knows that she is not the daughter of Soo-Li
and Cain. She
also knows that with the departure of Ming Li, part of her world will
collapse.
Guardian
of secrets, it is a shame to have made Tran-Kwe a cliché of these many
abandoned women, plunged into the hell of opium and prostitution after
the departure of the Americans. Her
role could have been richer, with an intervention alongside Phillip
Hamilton in his quest for revenge against Cain Garver...
Portrait
written for this site by Lilian
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