Phượng (Đôi Mắt Phượng)

Phượng is the titular deuteragonist of the Vietnamese play Đôi Mắt Phượng, which is based on the short story of the same name.
She is portrayed by Kim Tuyến.
==Biography==
Phượng was the wife of Ân, who was serving in the ARVN during the Vietnam War. She had a daughter with him named Hiền.
Phượng and her daughter returned home as they saw Ân returning from a three day break from his military service. They spend having a fun time with him as he brought a panda bear for his daughter to play. After that, Phượng and Ân went on to have a conversation regarding their country's future and his experiences during the war. Ân and Phượng professed their love together.
Following the takeover of Saigon, many Vietnamese people escape the newest communist regime while she and her family remained in their homeland as they had to endure listening to the radio broadcast announcing the takeover of Saigon. Ân was arrested and went to a re-education camp for his military service in ARVN. In order to need permission to visit her husband, Phượng went on to visit a Việt Cộng political commissioner for permission to visit her husband. Being infatuated with her, he rape her that resulted in her being pregnant with his child. He forced her to gave a introduction note to PAVN soldiers so she can come to his room. After horrified while reading an introduction note, she finally visit Ân and reveals to him about her family’s difficult situations after the takeover of Saigon.
Ân was finally released from a re-education camp and when he returned home, he discovered that his house is empty while reuniting with his family. In order to earn gold and money to escape the communist Vietnamese regime, she work as a sex worker to provide support for herself and her family. Ân discovered her occupation when she hang out with a male client and suffered a breakdown. After the morning, Phượng returned home brought food for her husband and daughter to eat. She reveals her plans to him that she, together with him and family, fled the communist regime by went to a refugee boat. Realized that he will be first to go, he refuses as he want to remained with his family. She also reveals to him about how she work as a sex worker to earn gold and money to escape the communist regime. She also reveals to him that she had a son named Thương, born as a result of being raped by a Việt Cộng political commissioner. Following, she and her family escape the communist regime by went to a boat.
During the boat, she and her family were having a conversation regarding their future when they settled in a overseas country. Unfortunately, the boat wrecked into the underwater as it went to Thailand. She and her family went to a Thai beach waiting for another boat to arrives. Bác Trung, a captain of a refugee boat, warned her and her family about Thai cannibals and telling the story about how he witnessed Thai cannibals eating Vietnamese refugees as foods to eat, causing her faint while holding her son. When Ân went on to find something, leaving her and two children at the risks of Thai cannibals. Thai cannibals kidnapped and murdered Hiền in order to eat parts of her body. Phượng discovered that Hiền is gone and mourned her death. To sacrifice herself as well as protecting her son from Thai cannibals, she cut her nipple to breastfeed her son and pretend that she and her son were dead from Thai cannibals. When Ân return, she reveals to him that Hiền is kidnapped and eaten by Thai cannibals. When another boat arrives, Ân gave Thương to Bác Trung so he and Phượng can go to a boat together. Phượng, suffering from hypothermia, died in his arms. In grief, he hold her body to return to a boat.
Following the events, Ân and Thương moved to the United States to start a new life for themselves. He raised Thương as his son and kept a secret to himself, hoping in his heart that Thương will never know that his birth was the result of his mother's rape.
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