A professor, walter, American. I have taught the same course for nearly 20 years, and I have not done empirical research for more than 10 years, and the books I have written are only co-authored. My heart is in pain, my hair is falling out, I'm just pretending, I'm very busy every day.
Finally, one day, a lonely man in pain wanted to learn the piano to cultivate his soul and pass the time, but the piano, a traditional 4-beat instrument, made it very difficult for him to learn.
One day, he was forced to go to another state to give an academic report, and the pretense of concentrating on his book didn't work. During the meeting, he went to his local house and met tarek, a young man from Syria, and his girlfriend, and also came into contact with African drums, which made him very curious.
He was very interested. Under the tutelage of tarek, he began to practice this music, which is different from the traditional music system, the African drum.
African drums are 3 beat rhythms, and you can't think while practicing, just beat "crazy" and forget about tradition. W is fascinated.
One day, they went to practice together and came back. When they were on the subway, T said to W, look at the man in the subway, he thinks that one day he will be able to make music freely in the United States.
And a day later, when they came back from the show together and took the subway again, T was arrested by the police because he didn't look like an American, when in fact he was smuggled in, and the complaint was dismissed.
T was taken into prison and at first encouraged W to practice African drums, but as time passed and the possibility of going out became less and less likely, T was very anxious. Because he can't make music in it.
During W's visit, the most unforgettable episode was that they collaborated on African drums by tapping the windowsill through the glass.
W, this American professor, has become T's friend. He went to the prison to explain/protest, found a lawyer, and took in T's mother who came from out of town, but all efforts were fruitless. U.S. law does not allow stowaways to live in the United States.
T was eventually secretly deported from the country.
W has lost a friend with whom he can communicate, and may also have lost a love that seemed to be absent, and his life that had just flourished suddenly came to nothing.
The resentful W took the African drum to the subway, abandoned a professor's Sven, or even picked up the heart to get rid of the boring life, and beat the African drum frantically in the subway.
Like replacing T to complete his dream, "Pada, Pada, Pada", the three-bar sound of African drums is more and more difficult to calm down, in front of me, the subway rumbles by...
There is no big opening and closing plot in the whole movie, but Always filled with restrained sadness. Sad and unforgettable.
Also, I don't like loud music, but African drums sound great and can't wait to download Fela Kuti's music.
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