Remy, over 50, divorced his wife Louise and was hospitalized with cancer. Louise calls her son Sebastian, who lives in London, and asks him to come home. Sebastian hesitated, feeling even more embarrassed now that he and his father had been strangers for many years. After much consideration, he still decided to fly to Montreal, and his father needed more support. Sebastian's return has a huge impact on Remy, Louise and even their relatives, and he tries his best to alleviate the pain caused by the disease to his father. He even gathered Remy's former relatives, friends and even his mistress to the bedside. And under the shadow of death, Remy is also constantly self-analysis in looking back on this life
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The Barbarian Invasions movie plot
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Rémy: [in French] Contrary to belief, the 20th century wasn't that bloody. It's agreed that wars caused 100 million deaths. Add 10 million for the Russian gulags. The Chinese camps, we'll never know, but say 20 million. So 130, 145 million dead. Not all that impressive. In the 16th century, the Spanish and Portuguese managed, without gas chambers or bombs, to slaughter 150 million Indians in Latin America. With axes! That's a lot of work, sister. Even if they had church support, it was an achievement. So much so tha the Dutch, English, French, and later Americans followed their lead and butchered another 50 million. 200 million dead in all! The greatest massacre in history took place right here. And not the tiniest holocaust museum. The history of mankind is a history of horrors.
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Rémy: We've been everything: separatists, supporters of independantists, sovereignists, sovereignity-associanists...
Pierre: At first, we were existentialists.
Dominique: We read Sartre and Camus.
Claude: Then Fanon, we became anti-colonialists.
Rémy: We read Marcuse and became Marxists.
Pierre: Marxist-Leninists.
Alessandro: Trotskyists.
Diane: Maoists.
Rémy: After Solzhenitsyn we changed, we became structuralists.
Pierre: Situationists.
Dominique: Feminists.
Claude: Deconstructionists.
Pierre: Is there an -ism we haven't worshipped?
Claude: Cretinism.