It is said that the origin of the term Indochina is related to China and India. This is not only reflected in the border between the Indochina Peninsula and China and India, but also reflects the influence of the cultures of the two countries on Indochina, such as Buddhism. However, from the perspective of modern history, France has the greatest influence on Indochina. Since the early 16th century, France has used missionaries to infiltrate Vietnam, and gradually invaded Vietnam from the middle of the 19th century, and then occupied the entire Indochina. Although France finally lost in the colonial competition with Britain and withdrew from India, compared with the declining Qing government, it was a veritable power that finally took away the power to rule Vietnam from China by force. After nearly a hundred years of colonial rule. So there is this "Indochina" filmed by the French.
This is a film with a strong French sentiment, but the background is in Vietnam. The same film such as "Lover" is also similar. The sentiment is French and the background is also in Vietnam. You can see the strong Vietnamese feelings of the French. The film tells about a French woman who started her own business in Vietnam and has a Vietnamese adopted daughter who treats her adopted daughter as her own. When the adopted daughter is older, and her love begins, she actually fell in love with her mother's lover, competed with her mother for the lover, and later eloped because of love, and then later joined the revolutionary team? (The video here is very vague), and there are children. As a mother, she was neither jealous or enmity because her lover was taken away, nor did she abandon her relationship because of her adopted daughter's unfeeling and ran away from home. As always, she looked for and cared for the adopted daughter, and finally raised the adopted daughter's child to adulthood. Later, Vietnam The revolution was successful and the French were forced to evacuate. She brought her nephew to France. Throughout the film, you can feel the French people's Vietnam complex, and they feel that they feel like their hometown, even though they don't agree with these outsiders. This reminds me of a scene in the film "Apocalypse Now" made by the Americans. When the protagonist’s boat passes by a French manor, when it comes to living in the smoke of war, The French confided their feelings for this land, which shows their lingering feeling for Indochina. And in "Out of Africa", the protagonist also showed that he is quite friendly to the natives, and he feels like a farmer in Africa, but in his bones there is always such a reserved, such a gifted feeling, and the French There is a strong difference.
Do the French really have a soft spot for Indochina? When I recollected this film, I clearly felt that, not necessarily! For example, the protagonist's attitude and behavior towards the rubber tappers she hired and the description of the barbarous behavior of the Vietnamese still reflect their prejudice against Vietnam, a condescending arrogance. The so-called complex is only a gesture of the occupier, a love house for vested interests and nothing more. Having said that, their description of Vietnam is much better than the image of Chinese in the Hollywood film "Liu Fu Inn". Although many Chinese people appear in positive images, they are all portrayed as ugly.
Sometimes I think, the so-called my Indochina is just because of the pride of my spoils! You see, mine. As for how I got it, that's another matter. 2009-08-11
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