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Eric 2022-11-28 03:14:00

The main line is the relationship between the father and the son, and at the same time reflects the purpose of each person's existence and the relationship between people, forming a metaphysical discussion, what is the purpose of human life?
In the basic narrative, it is a bit like prose poetry, indifferent to ordinary times, so the narrative plot is very slow, give a point, and then analyze the comment. The whole color has an upward momentum in the loss.
But the things touched are always quite satisfactory, so the final benefit and plot are not very strong, and as a family-oriented movie, it can't earn many tears from the audience, which is really average.

Seriously ill father, heroin, filial son offering last comfort to father, lost religion, student with money to see teacher

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  • Rémy: [in French] Contrary to belief, the 20th century wasn't that bloody. It's agreed that wars caused 100 million deaths. Add 10 million for the Russian gulags. The Chinese camps, we'll never know, but say 20 million. So 130, 145 million dead. Not all that impressive. In the 16th century, the Spanish and Portuguese managed, without gas chambers or bombs, to slaughter 150 million Indians in Latin America. With axes! That's a lot of work, sister. Even if they had church support, it was an achievement. So much so tha the Dutch, English, French, and later Americans followed their lead and butchered another 50 million. 200 million dead in all! The greatest massacre in history took place right here. And not the tiniest holocaust museum. The history of mankind is a history of horrors.

  • Rémy: We've been everything: separatists, supporters of independantists, sovereignists, sovereignity-associanists...

    Pierre: At first, we were existentialists.

    Dominique: We read Sartre and Camus.

    Claude: Then Fanon, we became anti-colonialists.

    Rémy: We read Marcuse and became Marxists.

    Pierre: Marxist-Leninists.

    Alessandro: Trotskyists.

    Diane: Maoists.

    Rémy: After Solzhenitsyn we changed, we became structuralists.

    Pierre: Situationists.

    Dominique: Feminists.

    Claude: Deconstructionists.

    Pierre: Is there an -ism we haven't worshipped?

    Claude: Cretinism.