I don't understand why the Vietnamese guards were telling the family to turn back and that they don't have permission to enter the country, but then protect and welcome them the second their boat drifted over the border...
Can someone explain it to me?
Once you have gone past an international border you are considered landed. A refugee. They would not allow them to be harmed in their country.
And Max the king of all wild things wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.
hcheatle...that was not what he asked...read his question again and then try to answer again...
~If the realistic details fails, the movie fails~
hcheatle answered the question just fine. When the Vietnamese soldiers saw Jack's family paddling towards them, they warned them to stop. This is something they would do to anyone paddling towards the border. However, once Jack's family was officially on the Vietnam side, the country had a duty to provide them asylum.
I'm assuming that once the soldiers saw a bunch of rebels shooting at Jack's family, they figured out what was going on and let them inside the gate without issue.
What stopped them from actually shooting pre refugee status
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If the Vietnamese guards were to shoot at the armed mob on the other side of the border it would be an act of war. At the very least it would create a very serious international incident between the two countries.
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