Nowhere in this world is clean

Marion 2022-03-21 09:01:44

The beauty of Africa is the most gorgeous, but it has to be called black Africa, not only because of the skin color, but also the silence of this land.

The film depicts love, exposes politics, shows Africa, sensational and desperate. The ending is also silent like reality.

Yes, the totalitarians in Africa are backed by various major powers and interest groups, so the land bleeds, the country is attributable, and the world is chaotic, and all parties finally get their own way. There are bizarre landscapes, rare animals, and rich minerals, but there are no "people", they are just the cheapest and most meaningless creatures.

No wonder the Congolese classmates would say that when he got a visa to France, the whole family would tell him that you will never come back.

Therefore, all my dark-skinned friends are extremely proud, and that kind of deep-rooted inferiority cannot be balanced by a French passport.

The silence in Africa also lies in the fact that people who leave there are unwilling to mention all kinds of things there, as if they are reincarnated as human beings, without the memories of their previous lives.

I think of the woman I met in Ardèche. She was thin, strong, and had a dull voice. She was gay, and she went from over 200 pounds to over 100 pounds after she got rid of drugs. She was smoking a pure marijuana cigarette, and in a word she shared her experience in the International Red Cross Society for more than ten years: this is a place where money is laundered for governments of various countries. The Gulf War, the clouds of the Middle East, and finally she left.

Nowhere in this world is clean.

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  • Tessa Quayle: It's an outrageous thing. It's almost if it's -it's a marriage of convenience- and the only thing it's going to produce is dead offspring.

  • Tessa Quayle: I thought you spies knew everything.

    Tim Donohue: Only God knows everything. He works for Mossad.