Mes amis, retenez bien ceci, if n'y a ni mauvais herbes, ni mauvais hommes. Il n'y a que de mauvais cultivateurs.
Friends, if there are no weeds or bad guys, please remember that. Only bad growers.
Remember, friends, there are no bad weeds or bad people, only bad growers.
Borrowing the name of Hugo's "Les Miserables," director Ladj Ly presents a Les Miserables in the 93rd arrondissement of Paris. Writers who publish autobiographical novels like to deny or obscure the autobiographical part of their work, but Ladj Ly told the microphone in an interview that his films are all real, and he is presenting the film in the form of a documentary. The "mayor" in the film is a real person, and he is played by himself. What Buzz photographed with a drone happened to him... Maybe, so the film has a more shocking effect.
In the first half of the film, Issa was "carried" to the police station by his father because he stole a large bag of live chickens. At that time, he looked timid, like a little valet of a gang boss who was not very troublesome; later he was injured by a black policeman Now, sitting in a police car with his head on the window glass, he looked so sullen and heart-wrenching; he was so frightened that he urinated in the lion's cage, and after being intimidated by the police, he crossed the square and sat on the high platform of the city Looking down, although it was just a back at that time, you might be able to feel that his back was slowly straightening and hardening. In the end, he took a lot of children, caught turtles in the urn, killed the "mayor", and took the Molotov cocktail... With a burning fire in his heart, he confronted the police with guns, and the film came to an abrupt end.
Stop here, anything can happen later. Because anything is possible, the director actually left hope to the audience. Even if we can't imagine how to extinguish the anger in his heart, we can still hope that he will put down the Molotov cocktail and let everyone help out of the building.
At the end of the film, the director once again borrowed Hugo's words "there are no bad weeds or bad people in the world, only bad growers". But it felt wrong all of a sudden. Les Misérables in Paris originated from the immigration policy of France's "republican model", which weakened the ethnic consciousness of immigrants in an institutionalized way, and emphasized the commonality of citizenship based on the "individual-government" contract centered on the country, so as to assimilate. Alien ethnic groups, rather than highlighting the diverse characteristics of ethnic groups. However, among the three questions that everyone spends their entire lives asking, "Who am I?", "Where do I come from?" and "Where am I going", at least two of them are related to nationality, such innate things, How can I give up? How can it be shared? The wrong course of the system has led to a surge in social problems, and it is not a simple environmental problem. However, it is not wrong to say that it is the problem of the growers. After all, neither the director nor the film can give the answer, so it's amazing to be able to ask questions!
After chewing the lines again, I found that the director in the film had already shouted his point of view through the mouth of a religious black headman: "When did the lions want people to feed them? Can't they hunt and feed themselves?"
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