Hình ảnh trong phim được vẽ dựa trên mô tả và tư liệu trong cuốn sách do tác giả cung cấp, nên có thể không giống người thật. · The pictures in this film were drawn from the descriptions and materials in the author’s book, and may not look like the real people.
Chương 37 · Chapter 37
Afterword
Nguyên văn chương 37 hồi ký của ông Trần Văn Sơn. Bản tiếng Anh dịch sát bên dưới mỗi đoạn. The full chapter as he wrote it, with an English translation under each paragraph.
Còn tiếp… to be continued in Chapter 38, “”.
← Chương 36 · Mục lục · all chapters
Người trong chuyện · The people
a husband and wife, and a fairy tale
Only what the chapter says. The tree grows as new chapters arrive. Portraits are drawn from family photos where we have them; the rest are imagined.
Dòng thời gian · Timeline
2022, from chapter 37
Hiện vật · Artifacts
Real photographs and documents from the family — tap one to see it full size
These are the family's own photographs and papers, not illustrations. Location and camera data were removed before publishing.
Ký ức · Fragments
Small things never forgotten — tap one to see it in the film
Thực hiện · Making of
A film with no video file
This last chapter’s film is a small JavaScript program, like all the chapters before it. The two recorded tracks are the narration, in his own cloned voice for Vietnamese, and the score.
| Câu chuyện · Story | Hồi ký Trần Văn Sơn, chương 37 “Ngoại chuyện” |
| Kịch bản, dàn dựng, hoạt hình · Script, direction, animation | Claude (Anthropic), hand-coded canvas engine |
| Minh hoạ cắt dán · Collage illustration | Google Gemini 3 Pro Image, from family photos where we have them |
| Giọng kể · Narration | Tiếng Việt: giọng thật của ông, tái tạo bằng AI (F5-TTS) từ bản ghi âm ông đọc hồi ký · Vietnamese: his own voice, recreated with F5-TTS from a recording of him reading his memoir. English: Google Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS, voice “Algenib”. |
| Nhạc · Score | Google Lyria 3 Pro, three cues: đàn bầu, đàn tranh, felt piano, bamboo flute, strings |
| Âm thanh · Sound design | Synthesised live in the browser (WebAudio) |
| Bản dịch · Translation | Claude, kept close to his wording |
Illustrations are an artistic re-imagining, not historical photographs. Names and events come only from his memoir. Quỳnh Như is drawn from her photos, older; Dr Vũ Anh Tuấn is named, not drawn, and the surgeon shown is masked and generic.