Snakehead (2021)

Shuya Chang: Sister Tse

Quotes 

• Sister Tse : [Narrating]  Dai Mah's smuggling empire kept the peace in a dying Chinatown underworld. Import-export companies, truck drivers and unemployment agencies all depended on her. For them, smuggling was harmless. But everyone knew it wouldn't last.

• Zareeb : So when you were dreaming of coming to America, did you think it was going to be this way?

  Sister Tse : I didn't think. I just came.

• Sister Tse : [Narrating]  I didn't always make the right choice, but I always survived.

• Dai Mah : Everybody has to work and earn here.

  Sister Tse : I can work. I can earn. Just give me a chance.

  Dai Mah : I just gave you a chance!

  Sister Tse : That kind of work is for the weak. I'm not weak!

• Rambo : Hey, where you going? You better get one of those boxes! Am I gonna have some problem with you?

  Sister Tse : This is stupid. I'm not doing that. I'm not gonna smuggle drugs.

  Rambo : The people are better, hm?

  Sister Tse : At least I give people hope. You kill them.

• Sister Tse : [Narrating]  I never believed in the American dream. All I knew was how to survive.

• Zareeb : Your soba better. Let me help.

  Sister Tse : No, I don't need help.

  Zareeb : Come on, Sister Tse, everybody needs help sometime!

• Sister Tse : [Repeated line]  We all have our reasons.

• Sister Tse : I owed $57,000 to the snakehead. All that mattered was that I was here.