Many people think that the French are romantic and full of romantic humanistic feelings while walking, but they may not know that the Napoleonic Code created the precedent of modern capitalist civil legislation and laid the foundation for the formation of the world capitalist legal system. It is such a contradictory country, such a group of seemingly contradictory people also created a monster like Merlin.
Many people say that the director tried to portray Merlin as a hero. In my opinion, it is more like an attack on the French social system and judicial system at that time. Throughout the whole article, Merlin is not actually a high-IQ criminal in the true sense. There is no careful plan for each action. He temporarily intends to rob another bank, armed robbery of a prison, etc. Such behavior is unspeakable in any other area. Smart, it looks more like two hundred and five. But why in France, in Canada (French-speaking area), all these stupid actions were almost successful, and the judicial system has always been unable to understand him (N escapes, riots in court), and even gave him the opportunity to be interviewed by the media, Promote yourself in disguise. If you explain everything to mean that the French are too romantic and kind, and the French judicial system is too human, then why would they eventually send someone to ambush and shoot him on the road?
Based on the above, as a person who has only known France in books, he is full of confusion and perplexity about such a country and such a nation. Perhaps the director himself is full of his own questions about these, so he tries to use such a negative energy hero to constantly beat and torture people's cognition of the country and society.
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