Karen, the heroine of the film We Go to Africa
, is a wealthy aristocratic daughter who is deviant and has sex with a lover who doesn't love her before she gets married. But it was in the early 19th century, and nobles only married virgins. She said: There is no room for me here. , but I am in Africa and have a piece of land.
In order not to be an old woman, she married her lover's younger brother, the prodigal son-baron. She said: I will give you money, you marry me, and we will go to Africa.
I am in Africa, there is a land called "Liberty"
where men and women are equal liberty
to a British colony in Africa, Karen wanted to go to a club for a drink and was turned away because the club was only open to male nobles. The system of inequality between men and women has not been freed in Africa.
The freedom of skin color
came to his villa, and all the servants in the room were local black Africans. The arrival of whites made blacks unfree.
They got married in a hurry in Africa, and the prodigal Vis-Baron liked to wander around and rarely returned home. Karen began to grow coffee beans, and the harvest will take four years. The local chief said that it is not suitable to grow coffee beans, but the stubborn Karen wanted to change God's arrangement. Like a man, she planted saplings in the ground and fed the cows in the cattle pen.
Racial freedom
She wants to change the educational situation of the local people, open a school, let black children learn English and white culture, the black housekeeper persuaded her, the chief does not want children to be educated, because he does not want the people's knowledge to be higher than himself, this is not the case. favor his rule. Even blacks, far from the shackles of civilization, are not free.
Freedom of
War Not long after the war hit Africa, the prodigal son-baron went to the front line, and Karen chased the baron to the front line. On the way, the lion's mouth escaped from danger. Dennis, who had lived there for many years, gave her a compass. Where there are humans there is war, and even on the edge of the world you are not free.
When freedom came, I was so terrified that
Karen and Dennis fell in love, the prodigal Viscount also hooked up with another rich girl, and they divorced peacefully.
Dennis wants to be a free man, but Karen wants to get married. They understand freedom and marriage differently: what Karen understands is freedom for white people, she thinks giving blacks medical care and jobs, giving them education and having more A good material life, this is freedom, marriage is the freedom promised, "guaranteed" freedom; but the freedom that Dennis understands is nature, let black people adapt to their own culture, be a natural person, unfettered. People, this is freedom, marriage has never been free, and freedom can never be "guaranteed".
Dennis loves freedom, Karen fears freedom. "Dennis gave me a compass, he said it was used to guide the direction, but then I realized that we each have our own way to go. Maybe he already knew that the reason why the earth is round is not to let us go too fast Know the result." Dennis's compass will always only follow the direction of nature, and man-made has no effect on him. Only by conforming to human nature and nature can you get correct guidance and freedom.
There is a kind of Maasai who lived for freedom and died
for freedom. Denis took a plane and went to a distant place. Karen gets an unexpectedly good harvest of coffee beans, but a fire razes her harvest and she goes bankrupt, "God gave you everything just to take it back" Karen's fight against fate fails end. After selling the property, Karen asks the mayor of the colony to return her land to the black people and give them freedom, and she gets the true meaning of freedom from Dennis's compass: what black people want is not material freedom, what they want is just Just pure freedom.
Dennis decides to accompany Karen, who has nothing left, and sacrifices his freedom, only to be killed on the final flight. Dennis once said that there is a kind of Maasai that is different from other ethnic groups. If they are locked up in prison, they will die the next day because they cannot see tomorrow and think they will be locked in prison for the rest of their lives. At Denis's funeral, a silhouette of a Maasai appeared.
Before the departure, the male club member invited her to drink a glass of goodbye wine by exception. The material did not bring her freedom, but her struggle against fate brought her freedom. "God takes everything from you, just to give."
Going out of Africa, because I already know that
before leaving Africa, Karen gave Dennis's compass to the black housekeeper. Africa did not bring her real freedom, it just made her understand that if a person is free in his heart, he can go wherever he goes. is Africa.
Back at the beginning of the film, Karen wrote a book to recall Dennis: He gave me a pen, gave me a compass, and took me from the sky to overlook the free beauty of Africa, like God.
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