We are the onlookers of this cruel work, we are silent, thankful that we were not born in Africa.
The famine used to be the deepest impression of Africa in memory, but now because of the movie "Timbuktu", it has been smeared with the terrifying color of the ISIS organization.
What happened to Timbuktu, the dream mall of West Africa once coveted by European colonists, after it was occupied by jihadists in 2012? (Although a year later, a French military operation with the Mali government ended their rule. This is one of the reasons why Paris has become a target of violence and terror.)
Growing up in Mali, studying theatre in Moscow, the director of European films, Chissako, knows the court very well. Baktu's unique place in the hearts of Europeans and Africans. Last year, a Swiss organization selected the "New Seven Wonders of the World", and Timbuktu was honored to be shortlisted for the final selection. The fate of this jewel of the Sahara Desert touches people's hearts.
The fate of Timbuktu ultimately fell on a family of three herdsmen. Nomads are the earliest and oldest aboriginal people in Timbuktu. This kind of perfect way of life represents human childhood. Just like the ancient African totems that became targets in the film at the beginning, they were abandoned by modern civilization and even trampled by extremist organizations.
Even the herdsmen now use mobile phones, and they can't do without GPS every minute (the male protagonist's favorite cow actually uses this name). Moreover, in a small Timbuktu, it is almost a United Nations, and there are all languages, but living in a small city has to convert several languages. This is like the Tower of Babel in the Genesis of the Bible, and everyone talks to themselves.
However, Shisakko is not going to make an abstract film that we can't understand, he just wants to tell a story that a simple person wants to live a simple life but can't get it.
The male protagonist is reluctant to avoid his hometown because of the jihadist organization. Unfortunately, his wife has been spotted by a leader of the jihadist organization. He was killed because the GPS entered the fishing net by mistake. He asked the fisherman to make theories
. According to the point-to-point style of this film, I think it may be the leader of the organization. He once shot at the pile of grass where he disappeared when he met the male protagonist on the way. He has the desire to take his wife. . And the shot actually hit either side in his favor. The perspective of the big panorama of the male protagonist getting up and escaping from the fisherman is exactly the position of a gunman.
Or maybe the director just wants to make a person who looks calm and peaceful full of violence, in an extremely insecure environment, will people become unreasonable to themselves? What does the director want to tell us? A virtuous ordinary person who has committed a crime and a group of people who detain people's freedom in the name of jihad are facing the same God. There is no absolute distinction between good and evil. We may all be victims or perpetrators. By. Like that young jihadist, who used to be a rap singer, but now arrests and whips someone for singing and playing.
Perhaps it is precisely based on such a God's perspective that the jihadists in the film, apart from patrolling and arresting people, seldom commit violence directly. The resistance of the residents of the small town is also gentle and calm, without fierce resistance. The tone of the whole film is full of pastoral songs. poetic, but is it real? The jihadists burned down several buildings, including a library that housed thousands of volumes of precious historical manuscripts, documents show. This is reminiscent of the Great Buddha statue in Babilan that was destroyed by the Taliban many years ago.
Fortunately, a year later, a military operation by France and the Malian government ended the jihadist group's rule. This is one of the reasons why Paris has become the target of violent terror.
Although it is not perfect and even has doubtful flaws, this film, which is as bland as a documentary and close to reality, allows us to see the social status quo under the rule of an extremist religious organization like lSlS. This is a kind of victory and also There is no substitute for this movie.
"The Hungry Sudan" photographer Kevin Carter committed suicide two months after winning the award. His last words: Life's pain far outweighs joy.
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