Mr. Hero

Hùng drives a taxi in a city that has stopped paying attention to men like him. A single father running out of time, he needs money for the treatment that might save his younger daughter, who is dying of liver failure. Then a stranger’s good deed goes viral, donations flood in, and Hùng sees what the attention economy can do: turn sympathy into cash, and cash into a chance. With a fellow driver and a livestreamer, he turns a rescue into a spectacle, becoming the hero his daughter’s survival may require. Võ Thạch Thảo’s debut treats virality, online charity, and virtue as a marketplace and a moral trap. Vietnamese box-office king Thái Hòa makes Hùng painfully human without letting him off the hook, leaving the film to ask whether love can excuse disgrace.