Everyone says that this is a movie about sticking to faith and purifying the soul, but in my eyes, Malik is simply looking for his own way of survival in two camps. He was not accepted by the Muslims, and even more so by the Corsicans, and he was involved in all this at first even just because someone said something to him that needed him to KJ.
The director has no intention to guide the audience, nor does he intend to uplift the leading actor. He just tells a story, and it is up to you to judge whether it is good or bad. Jacques Audiard even made Ruby, who died at the beginning, appear repeatedly around the hero in the form of a ghost to show the impact of the incident on the hero. This kind of technique is not uncommon in movies, but how to make the frequency of appearance fine and not indiscriminate is not a degree that every director can master. In addition, the delicacy of the French director is really admirable. When Caesar learned that he was about to lose his men, the loneliness that turned his head was followed by the dead leaves outside the iron window. If I were the chairman of the jury of the French Caesar Awards, and I also awarded him the Best Director Award, can you imagine John Woo showing this kind of loneliness? I'm afraid it's a white dove flying outside the window, right?
Talking about the newcomer Taha Rahim, the actor he plays is timid and cowardly but also strong and persistent. Looking at that tender face, I think most people think that this is the actor himself character. In him, you can't see the youthfulness, the tension of the first brother, nor the ease of the old actor, it is difficult to say what is in him that attracts you. Let me think, who was the last time I felt this way when I saw it? Maybe it's Stephen Chow in "The Thunderbolt"...
and another actor that interests me more is Nils Alestrup who plays Caesar. Domineering, contempt for everything, loneliness... So many emotions are actually reflected in him. Although he has a little bit of the habit of old fritters, he really played this role perfectly. What are Hollywood producers waiting for? Is it really the legendary fear of French actors?
In this film dressed as a prison film, what we see more is the struggle of human nature. Maybe this film is not for everyone, but he should be remembered. Another digression, every time I watch a French movie, it makes me ask myself again, what's so good about French? Ulu Ulu, like talking with a date pit.
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