It all starts with Camus.
In 1961, 15 years after the end of World War II, in the great political environment at that time, in the wave of national liberation, the colonial problems left over from the era of great seafaring and the era of industrial revolution were either willingly or reluctantly solved one by one.
The exception is France, which tends to -- not settle.
Of course, there are many problems left over from history. From a historical point of view, the credibility of the French government has always been low, so that during the Hundred Years War between Britain and France, France’s war loans were only 10% of that of the United Kingdom. First, this was after Napoleon's administration had markedly improved his credibility.
The Algerian National Liberation Front began a long and protracted war with the French government for national independence. The war began in 1954 and reached its climax in 1961.
Camus, an outstanding French intellectual, once wrote a short story "The Visitor", which was included in "The Exile and the King". It tells the story of a French who was a teacher in the mountains of Algeria, and was asked by the French military government to take an Algerian "rebel" to another mountain government to execute the execution.
The novel was later adapted into a film, called "Far From People."
The teacher in the film is a French who fought in World War II for France. On the way, the two encountered a wave of resistance groups in Algeria, where there was one of his comrades in arms. From the conversation, it can be seen that the two were comrades who had been born and died.
This is the true portrayal of France and Algeria after the war. The Algerian people believe that they did their best in World War II and made contributions to France and the Allies. Moreover, de Gaulle once promised a beautiful victory. In the end, one by one Failed, so the comrades turned into enemies.
This novel and this film are a microcosm of the history of France and Algeria. No one wants to continue the war, but the war is there, and fear is powerless.
The reason why it reached its climax in 1961 was that de Gaulle launched a vote on the future of Algeria, and the results showed that both France and Algerians wanted Algeria to be independent.
But the military quit. When the two governments were handed over peacefully, a small number of extreme military generals forcibly kidnapped the negotiators and unilaterally declared control of Algeria.
Then it was the people's turn to quit, and a large-scale protest in France began. In France, many No. 1s are in vain, except for the parade, they are professional and persistent.
Unfortunately, the scandal at this parade was even bigger than the previous military coup. The French police openly massacred the Algerians marching in Paris and dumped their bodies in an attempt to get away.
Even to this day, no one knows how many people died in those years, but there has always been a legend that the Seine River was full of bloodless corpses that day, and no one knew who they were. George
Speaking of which, I finally got in touch with "Invisible Camera".
The protagonist of the story, the servant family of George's family, is an Algerian. The servant's children, Maggie and George, are about the same age. They participated in the parade in 1961, and unfortunately, sacrificed their lives.
So the George family was faced with a problem, what to do with this child?
George's parents were still kind, they decided to take the child in and let him grow up in their own family.
But at this time, the young heart of the protagonist is not happy, why should I share my childhood resources with an outsider, this outsider is still the lower class who works for my parents.
So he kept lying and spread rumors about Magee. Finally, he convinced his parents that Magee had a brain problem and sent him to the orphanage.
This incident is the fuse of the story of the film.
Forty years later, George had a successful career and a happy family, and suddenly he started receiving videotapes of the lives of the George family.
At first, George thought it was a prank, but more and more, along with the videotape, there were also rumored paintings of George's childhood. The fear became stronger and stronger, and George began to get serious.
He has little hesitation in targeting the childhood Magee, and he thinks it's all because Magee hates him for spreading rumors, ruining Magee's otherwise superior life, and it seems that apart from George's parents and Maggie's Ji, no one knows the words he spreads, let alone draw them.
But when confronted, Magee denied it on the spot, and it seemed that Magee really didn't know the truth.
This matter has been in such an unresolved but continuous state, until one day, Magee sings himself in front of George, and George has no only suspect, but the matter is still fermenting, and the video is still recorded.
The footage in this film tends to be a documentary style, and it is not a documentary style, and the picture quality is almost DV style. For more than 100 minutes, I always thought it was a suspense movie. I followed the anxious George's various analyses to find out if it was his friend, and found out that his friend was cheating with his wife; was it his mother? Found out that no, his mother is dying; is it his son? At this point, I have basically been stunned, but I did see in many analyses that his son and Maggie's son became the murderer that everyone recognized.
Why is it said to be ratified, because the director did not actually give an answer.
Then I was a little reluctant. I watched it for so long, are you telling me this is a supernatural event? After thinking about it, oh, it turned out that what the director wanted to make was not a suspense film, but just a political fable.
First of all, I don't think anyone is manipulating this camera, it's just George's heart. George represents the French, and Magee represents the immigrants from Algeria, but because Algeria is actually a colony, their living space and status in France are excluded, attacked, and more or less oppressed.
But in fact, George's generation knew in their hearts that these immigrants, if they didn't have these innate differences in status, were actually no worse than themselves, so they stigmatized, demonized, and used all naive practices to keep themselves the masters of the country. , the center of society. (Does it feel like Jews were in Europe back then?)
This estrangement, created by instinct, continued for decades until the Georges grew up.
Then again, instinctively, they were afraid of their tricks being exposed, so in the lives of the Georges, there was a camera incident. Like George said to his wife, I can't tell you what exactly, but I think I know what's going on.
Decades of inner torment, unable to control the cameras and videotapes, are undoubtedly the invisible shackles in their lives, which are very similar to the paper shackles in "Farewell My Concubine", which bound a person for decades, extremely heavy. .
So here is the answer to why some people think that George's son and Magee's son jointly planned this game, because in a long shot with a fixed camera at the end of the film, the two came together in the crowd and had a seemingly familiar scene. network conversation.
As the last shot of this film, of course, it is easy to understand that the two of them have a conspiracy together, especially since the whole film does not explain the culprit of this incident, then this shot must be useful.
Of course, of course, it has a purpose, and its purpose is that when one day, George finds that his next generation and Maggie's next generation are no longer hostile, their original sins can easily be exposed.
This is the root cause of George's anxiety and nervousness.
At this time, if you look back at Camus' novel, the ending in "Far From People" is that the French teacher used words and prostitutes to make dissidents feel the beauty of life, and finally he chose the path of life between the two paths. .
But you must know that in Camus' novel, the dissidents obediently chose the path of death, and the French teachers also became the target of revenge by the locals.
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