After the victory of the 2018 World Cup, the ecstatic people showed their national enthusiasm. The name "France" and the three colors seemed to erase the differences in skin color, race and class in the crowd. This is an ideal, but only sports can make it come true. That kind of crowded streets is indeed in line with: 1. The French Revolution, the people violently overthrew the dynastic rule; 2. The Yellow Vest Movement: the middle and low-income groups in society took to the streets to oppose injustice and demand redistribution; the origin of the French habit of taking to the streets For a long time, I think there are two purposes: one is to express dissatisfaction, and the other is to form a joint force with other consensus people, so as to exert pressure to change.
The reality is that the children living in the garbage heaps are still running and playing, speaking French with a strong accent, and gathering on the outer lines of the city like they are on the fringes of society. The Île-de-France is like a mirror like a lake, how high the shore is, the more secretive it is underwater. In the ninety-three departments on the outskirts of Paris, in an area populated by people of color, criminal gangs monopolize the drug and sex trade, and the police choke and swear at the top.
One of my favorite shots is: an overhead shot of the colorful booths like small boxes. They are square and lively and cute. When you get close, it is a chaotic market, selling cheap goods and counterfeit goods. Gang bosses and police are dealing here, and they are in their own power. Scope on the wrestling.
The little boy grew up in such a place where he could not find support. Those who do not believe in their parents (mostly their parents do some rough work and are on the fringes of society), do not believe in religion, and do not believe in justice (the negative behavior of the police) can only rely on their peers, and they are the crowd. The lion that stole the circus, a sacred animal in Islam, cannot be restrained; for Isa, the lion is a novelty whose roar and might and violence are closely related. Hit by a rubber bullet, forced to lie, teased by the circus owner and led to the lion's cage, life is played with applause. The lion is trapped in a cage and violent intent is bred.
"No respect, just fear."
However, after being afraid, there is a counterattack. The burning gun barrels smashed into the police, gangsters, cars, all the people who did not belong to them, and they had nothing and nothing to do except for the violent counterattack caused by reporting to the regiment. "They" are almost all dressed in uniform, masked, armed with weapons. At this time, their individual characteristics and sanity have been erased. They are members of an angry crowd, like burning seeds.
However, the story of the great revolution is still in that kind of guidance, as if unifying the pace and roaring, crusade, advance, and break the illusion, new worlds can be opened up.
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