Text / Xiao Guanping
Contents: Chapter 1: France and Belgium that make people headache Chapter 2: Small towns in each other
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△The headaches of France and Belgium
This is a story that takes place in a small town on the border between France and Belgium. Due to the establishment of the European Union, the border checkpoints of the two countries have been cancelled, and the police of France and Belgium have to join hands to patrol each other under the condition that they hate each other.
Two countries with great origins teased and satirized each other because of small prejudices in cultural customs. Taking regional cultural differences as a joke is a French hobby. They also have a profession, dedicated to promoting to the world how beautiful French is, which is really full of personality.
The life in the border town reminds me of my current job (2018: I had just gone to work when I wrote this article, and was assigned to work at a rural police station. A year later, I was transferred to the police station for chasing robbers on foot in Twenty Mile Road for meritorious service. The criminal police team, who has since become the long-distance runner of the criminal police team), is also remote, quiet, and sparsely populated. In the movie, they are so dull and boring that they spend every day in the bar. It's not like we don't encounter big cases when we are usually idle. Just like us, we raise troops for thousands of days and use them for a while. When it's our turn to take action, no one is worse than the other.
Director Danny Byrne said: "In fact, the life in the small town and the northern fringes of France is familiar to me because I grew up here. But the stories and people's living habits here are very different for people in big cities. It's very unfamiliar and rare. Life in a small town is what it looks like in the movie, simple, casual, and far less complicated and busy than life in a big city."
Just like Tonatore's description of his hometown Sicily in "Paradise Cinema", "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily" and "Balaria", he has a life experience of his hometown, and his creation adds a unique longing and feeling. flavor.
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△Ether Town This Town
My favorite is the part where Ruben (Belgian police) and Mathias (French police) jointly acted as the "mobile customs". In order to arrest drug lords, they drove heavy police cars to patrol around and set up cards to intercept and inspect vehicles.
When I watched the movie, it happened that I had just finished the task of intercepting the murderer Zhou Kehua from fleeing across the province, so I was very touched. However, the real work is heavy and serious, and the film is full of jokes, which not only entertains the self-deprecating French and Belgians, but also attracts audiences like me who love European culture.
When our security captain held an MP5 submachine gun at the suspect vehicle, he was dutiful and handsome, but he sometimes frightened innocent citizens. When the vehicle refused to turn off the engine and there were signs of impediment, I remembered the principle of safe distance, and stood on the side of the vehicle to maintain a distance to prevent a sudden attack. In the movie, the two great gods accused each other, and the suspect vehicle ran away... In the movie They can shoot indiscriminately at distant suspect vehicles. In contrast, China's use of weapons is very strict, far less free than the French, and the execution of official duties also exudes a kind of romance.
From the broken car that was smoking all day at the beginning, to the super police car that has been refitted to surpass Mercedes-Benz and BMW, the transformation and upgrading of equipment have made these two rivals from happy friends to best partners, and the cooperation in work is getting more and more tacit. I have also had the experience of chasing drug dealers in a police car with a speed of 150km/h. I imagined the thrilling gun battle scene, I really don't know if this is a movie or reality. You can't be too addicted to watching movies. If you use movies as a template for everything you do, it's really fatal.
Compared to the Belgian who is a headache, I am also quite a headache.
January 7, 2012 first draft revised 2018/6/21
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