At the beginning of the movie, there is the most beautiful colonial monologue I have seen so far: There are inseparable things in the world, mountains and peace, men and women, human beings and goods, Indochina and France... a few words, a few words In this analogy, France and Indochina, a pair of countries and regions that should not have any geographical and cultural connections, seem to be inseparable from each other. Obviously it is soaked in blood, full of slaughter, attached to power, but between the colony and the colonized, through the erosion of the most cruel weapon of time, there will always be a subtle cultural and emotional connection. India is to the United Kingdom. , Inca is to the United States, Argentina is to Spain, Taiwan is to Japan, and of course, Vietnam is to France.
The story unfolds in such a delicate environment. Although the heroine Yilin took in her friend, an orphan of the Vietnamese royal family, and raised him, saying that she was an Indochina and doing seemingly benevolent deeds, she revealed her colonization from her heart to her deeds. The empire is superior. When Yilin’s lover showed so many slaves in the rubber garden looking at Yilin’s strange gaze, he couldn’t help asking her: "Do you mind if they look at you with such gaze?" Her answer was full of noble pride : "No, they are all my slaves, working for me."
However, the fate of Irene in Vietnam is the same as the fate of France in Vietnam, unpredictable and destined as fate, everything is connected with the ups and downs of her adopted daughter Kamy. Camey also fell in love with her lover Jean, she escaped marriage, she wandered, she gave up the nobility of the royal family, she struggled for survival together with slaves, she met Jean again unexpectedly, she angrily killed the French officer, she fled with Jean , She was pregnant with Jean’s child, she went to prison, she was released, she became an independent and bloody communist of Vietnam... I remember this Vietnamese girl—Kamei, every episode of every appearance, It can even be said that all the impressive plots and dialogues in the entire movie have Kamy. From the well-behaved and carefree daughter of Irene’s knees to the rock-hearted and abandoning revolutionaries, Kamy has been so firm and decisive along the way, and this process coincides with Vietnam’s independence from French colonial rule. The processes that came out overlapped. Kamyben leads a life of worry-free food and clothing, just as Vietnam is under the shadow of France, and the country is still too peaceful. However, the native people are ruled by people with different hairs and skins, and they suffer injustice or even inhuman treatment. Although they subtly accept the influence of a powerful civilization, the unruly and resistance in their hearts cannot be restrained after all. Camey broke away from the family, just like Vietnam broke away from France, it hurts, but it doesn't hesitate to turn back. The perfect overlap between the big background and the fate of the little people is precisely what makes this epic movie the most moving and successful.
Irene is the clue character of the movie, she is an out-and-out heroine, but all the plots surrounding her are passive, helpless, and led by fate. Lovers leave her, daughters leave her, workers leave her, wealth and status gradually leave her. It seems to be the fate of an aristocratic woman from high to low in history, and inside is the fate of a colonial empire from glory to decline under the wheel of history. No matter how proud she is, how much she wants to integrate into the culture she thinks she loves, how firmly she believes in those so-called inseparable connections, what she leaves to the world in the end is that lonely figure.
Let me say a few more words about the man in the story that both women love deeply-Jean. The film has also been very successful in shaping him. He ruthlessly burned a ship suspected of transporting opium when he appeared on the scene. Afterwards, he worried about whether the father and son would survive on the ship. It was this kind of troubles and losses that laid the groundwork for his life's destiny. He suddenly confessed to Irene who was many years older than Qi, and was easily dismissed by Irene’s father with money, and broke out passionately with Irene in the heavy rain. Later, he rescued Kamey in the conflict and was jealous of Yi. Lin sent to Haiphong and accidentally rescued Kamy who was in trouble. She seemed determined to embark on the road of fleeing with Kamy, completely standing on the opposite side of her French compatriots. But in the end, he seemed to betray the Vietnamese revolutionaries again, and finally died next to his son, under the black gun of not knowing whether it was a Vietnamese or a French... Not everyone has become the helm of destiny. , More people have become victims of this type of crushed by fate.
After Came was released from prison, he said coldly to his adoptive mother: "There is no longer your Indochina, it is dead." Indochina, a noun that has gone away, a history that has gone away, has never been left. The mark of retreat. From the ambiguity of "Lover" to the ambiguity of "Indochina", Vietnam and France have always used a tone of faint, sultry, uneasy, and turbulent to interpret a painful and profound connection. At the end of the story, Irene brought up Kamy’s son again, and her fate was intertwined in Geneva, where Vietnam and France formally signed an independence agreement. Kamy’s son initially had a little longing and hoped to see the miracle of the encounter between mother and son. But in the end he calmly told Irene: "The miracle did not happen, you are my mother..." Facts have proved that Vietnam is Vietnam and France is France. There is nothing inseparable in the world.
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