On August 2, 2020, Majestic Theatre, one of the closing films of the 23rd Shanghai International Film Festival, this film from Belgium won the Best Director Award in the main competition unit of the 72nd Cannes Film Festival. Films are less suitable for commercial distribution, and more suitable for academic film festivals. Religious topics have always been a sensitive direction for the film, especially when the narrative is about a young boy who falls into extremist fanaticism under a mainstream religion. The story is very plain and realistic, closely following the little boy's life from a third-person perspective, like a documentary, but not a documentary. Express. Absorbed in religious fanaticism, Ahmed has all kinds of suspicions about a world outside of the teachings he understands, from his family to his school, to the point that he will deliberately murder his teacher. In the farm of the correction site, the girl had a secret affection for him, her strong kiss, her questioning, did not wake the boy out of the bondage, although he hesitated, but he could not get rid of the control of this spirit, rejected the pagan uncleanness Feelings of love, pushed the girl, turned and left. He wants to complete his attempted revenge on the teacher, but the film stops abruptly when he falls from the classroom roof and struggles. I don't know if his remorse is instinctual or real when he finally faces the teacher's help when he hears help. of letting go of obsessions. The film is still too realistic. In view of the complex social reality of European society, it is estimated that the creators can only touch it so far, which is hard to say.
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