A war predicted by Camus

Marcia 2022-01-24 17:48:15

French philosopher Albert Camus, born in Algeria, wrote a 13-page short story "The Guest" in 1954, which was included in his famous collection of short stories three years later. Also in November 1954, the Algerian War, an anti-colonial struggle for independence, broke out between the National Liberation Front of the country and the French colonial army. Therefore, this happened in just one night. To a certain extent, a gendarme caught a local murderer, handed him over to a French village teacher, and asked to be sent to a nearby town for judgment. Foretells the inevitability of war. Director David Okhoffen extended this short story in both time and space, drastically cutting the role of the gendarmerie, and adapting it into a story of a fugitive duo with the temperament of a western film. He used it as a script and filmed himself. The second feature feature film "Far from Life.

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Extended Reading
  • Torey 2022-01-24 17:48:15

    1. Finally I know the origin of Harem pants 2. Vigo and Ed Harris are more and more similar

  • Claudine 2022-01-24 17:48:15

    The vulgar ignorance of the Arab people in North Africa, the helplessness of the French colonial army, and the French support education in the middle, how should they choose? He has nowhere to go, it is better to let others have a way out, great love!

Far from Men quotes

  • Mohamed: Tu cries comme ça à la classe?

    [Do you shout at your pupils like that?]

  • Daru: [Of being of Spanish descent in Algeria] Pour les français, on était des arabes, et maintenant pour les arabes, on est des français.

    [For the French, we were Arabs; and now for the Arabs, we are French]