A war that man cannot stop

Marvin 2022-04-19 09:02:52

Life is always a coincidence. I just heard Young Master Yan talk about Saint-Saëns this morning. It is said that this master was tired of the hustle and bustle of the city in his later years, and in order to pursue poetry and distance, he moved to Algiers, Algeria, which is a place where cultures of various nationalities blend. Figure 8⃣️ is the landmark building here. Of course, where there is no war, there are poems and distant places. With war, it is hell on earth. The film "Away From People" that I watched in the afternoon was not so good! Da Lu, a veteran who just wanted to be a teacher quietly, was ordered to escort a murderer. As a result, it was only during the escort that they found out why the prisoner murdered. The two were chased and killed along the way, and they also encountered a confrontation between two hostile military forces in Algeria. Fortunately, neither of them died. The prisoner is not a bad person, but if the prisoner does not accept the trial, it will cause a new round of revenge (this logic is a bit like the revenge of the generations in martial arts novels). The prisoner didn’t want to implicate his family and wanted to end his revenge. Daru felt that the prisoner should not die and tried to make the prisoner survive. At least the end of the movie is good. (I also believe he is good) But, the emotions that are rife everywhere in the film tell people that war will break out sooner or later, and the peace that Daru wants is an extravagant hope. Viggo Mortensen and the second male lead really did a great job. The existence of Daru will make people feel that even in the worst circumstances, there will still be people who maintain the kindness and justice in their hearts.

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  • Napoleon 2022-01-24 17:48:15

    A good film with the brilliance of humanity. Be fascinated by the sounds of the desert, wind, gravel, guns, and falling rain recorded by the sound picker. In the simplest barren land, there are blue sky, landforms, shabby rooms, and stone houses. Daru's movements are silent, steady, and calmly face the sinister life. A very useful lesson. Viggo's performance is very contagious in his hand and foot movements.

  • Orion 2022-04-20 09:02:30

    The movie stretches the novel and gives the two people enough time to get to know each other, their emotions and behaviors become relaxed and reasonable, and the ending also loses the loneliness of a foreign land

Far from Men quotes

  • Mohamed: Tu cries comme ça à la classe?

    [Do you shout at your pupils like that?]

  • Daru: [Of being of Spanish descent in Algeria] Pour les français, on était des arabes, et maintenant pour les arabes, on est des français.

    [For the French, we were Arabs; and now for the Arabs, we are French]