I haven't seen such a realistic and full of plot movie for a long time, a different Paris, a different capitalist first world. The teenagers in the slums also support the French team and Mbappe in the World Cup, just like all adults and all Chinese people. But... freedom, equality, and fraternity reflect a different reality under the lens of race. This is a chaotic and complex area, where various conflicts of race, religion, police and people are intertwined, maintaining a dynamic balance that seems to break out all the time but saves danger every time. All kinds of "talkers" rationally vented their anger from the bottom and from freedom itself, until they met their children. Just like the title of the film "Les Miserables", the children, like the young people who built barricades on the streets of Paris in the 18th century, planned riots for justice, equality and freedom. Violence doesn't have to be meaningful, but there must be a price. Don't adults like violence? They've been through their teenage years and come from that era. It's not that they don't want violence, it's just that they want more. "Like the previous turmoil, banks were smashed and robbed, streets were burned, has anything changed?" A good movie is the tension of life, not the tension of drama. There are no good or bad people, no good or evil, life itself is non-ideological, and everyone just walks forward with their hearts and minds in their respective operating states. The police searched for the lion in order to avoid conflict. The child besieged the police in order to rescue his companions. The adults conspired with the police to avoid riots. Children explode...for justice and freedom! The plot unfolds gently like a picture scroll, which is cruel and sudden, and has sufficient foreshadowing.
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