The Chinese name is "Illegal Entry", and I opened it without reading the introduction in detail, just to kill time for dinner.
At the beginning of the film, a group of Iraqi illegal immigrants from Calais, northern France, several large trucks carrying smugglers, and heavily guarded immigration customs, thought it was just a little violent men's film, but I didn't expect the plot It's about two completely different loves.
Bilal trekked 4,000 kilometers from Iraq to France, and his destination was England, across from England, where his girlfriend Mina was. His first attempt was to hide in a loaded bus and try to escape customs inspection and enter the country. Strict carbon dioxide testing has forced stowaways to bury their heads in plastic bags and hold their breath, and Bilal, who once crossed the Turkish border, was unable to overcome the police covering his first eight days with plastic bags. Such a shadow, had to lose 500 euros in vain. After being sent back to the French border, by chance, he saw a freighter passing by on the English Channel, and a new idea was born. He wanted to swim across the hundreds of kilometers of icy water to meet his beloved Mina. . With this belief in mind, he met Simon, a coach who learned to swim. Simon, once the national champion of the French swimming team, has just lost his wife Marion. The film does not explain why his wife left him, but it can be seen from a small conflict in the supermarket. In this way, a man who is full of despair in life and has just lost his marriage meets a boy who is full of longing for life and wants to swim to the person he loves the most. I think from the beginning, Simon didn't help Bilal out of genuine concern for him, he just wanted to cater to his wife's values and make up some hollow for his lost marriage, even if it's just a spiritual approach Free yourself from criticism from loss and despair. Simon tries to dissuade Pilar and warns him how crazy his thoughts are. He underestimates a young man's persistent pursuit of love and overestimates the strait that spans the waves between the two. Just as Bilal was gradually making progress in swimming, the news that Mina was getting married came, and he had to go to Mina's side to save his lover as soon as possible, so he quietly went across the English Channel without Simon. Simon, who was awakened by the police knock on the door, found the swimsuit and Bilal that disappeared at the same time, and he had to ask the police for help, although it would cause trouble for everyone, including himself. Police recovered Bilal, and his second attempt failed. Meanwhile, Simon gets another call from Mina, who tells Simon that she's getting married. Simon relayed the news to Pilar. Bilal tried again. This time, he had seen the British coastline shaking in the fog not far away, but was discovered by the maritime patrol. In order to avoid the pursuit of the police, he was buried in the sea. The story ends here, Pilar's love is over, and the middle-aged Simon retrieves the wedding ring to start the love again.
When watching this movie, I thought of another German movie "Die Frau, die sich traut", which is also a story bridge across the strait, but with a completely different background. One is a terminally ill middle-aged woman who made a arduous attempt to complete the final ritual of her life, and the other is a seventeen-year-old smuggling boy who persistently moves forward in pursuit of the first blooming love in his life. If Bilal gave up the idea of chasing love and started to find a job in France and embrace a new life, one day he would forget Mina and start another love, but Simon's story seems to be in the dark again rejects such an assumption. It seems that everyone will meet such a person in their life. TA is the end of your love. No matter what stage of life you are in, you will bear the pain for TA. The former is like Bilal. This love gives him hope and makes him reckless. Until the end of life, the latter, like Simon, went back and forth a thousand times, and finally moved towards a longer life.
These two men changed the trajectory of each other's lives, but they also allowed each other to be redeemed. Death is not a relief for Bilal, just imagine if he really swam to England and found Mina, Mina's father would never let the young couple succeed, how the two minors would walk together hand in hand The trials and tribulations of life, how to live in a foreign country, how to experience the trials and tribulations of the world and the dull life that will eventually come, all of which are still unknown and not optimistic. For Simon, the return of his wife will guide his messy life back on track, and a once-acclaimed swimming coach will also start a new life journey. One gain and one loss, the true meaning of life is fully implemented, and the darkness and light of human nature are hidden under the seemingly ordinary faces. Bilal, Mina, Simon, Marion, the French police, they represent different groups of people, revealing the pain that we cannot escape in life, showing the hypocrisy and darkness of human nature under the screen, but not Forgot to tell people about the little stars in the dark.
Can't forget a dialogue Simon said to Marion after the divorce in the film:
"Tu sais pourquoi il veut traverser, lui ?
Pour aller rejoindre sa copine.
Il a fait quatre mille kilomètres à pieds pour aller la retrouver et maintenant il veut traverser la Manche à la nage.
Moi, quand t'es partie, j'ai même pas été foutu de traverser la rue pour te rattraper."
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