last year was not only a global movie year, but also a French movie year.
has not only the well-known literary and artistic lesbian film "Portrait of the Burning Woman", but also the French romantic comedy "Belle Era".
But the most watched movie is this realist theme-
"Les Miserables"
2019-11-20 (France)
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Speaking of "Les Miserables", our first reaction is Hugo's famous novel more than 100 years ago. .
Actually, the film was expanded by director Raj Lee based on his short film of the same name.
is also the director's feature-length debut. Although
is not directly related to Hugo's novel, it is as good as the novel "Les Miserables".
at the Cannes Film Festival last year, this film shined.
not only won the jury award in the main competition unit.
also defeated the high-profile "Portrait of a Burning Woman", represented France in running for the Oscar for the Best International Film Award, and successfully entered the top five.
at the Caesars Awards in February this year.
"Les Miserables" won three awards including Best Picture, Best New Actor and Best Editing in one fell swoop, becoming the biggest winner at the award ceremony.
And all this is due to: Director
's deep reflection on the current social maladies.
The story in the movie takes place in Saint-Denis, a suburb of Paris where the director grew up. Many scenes of
are drawn directly from Raj Lee’s daily life. In the story of
, the town of Monfermeil is the worst district in Paris.
is also where Hugo wrote "Les Miserables".
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As everyone knows, France is a country of immigrants.
Therefore, the remaining violence and racial issues have been difficult to resolve for many years. At the beginning of the
story, we saw France won the 2018 World Cup.
They gathered on the Champs Elysées with great excitement.
Whether they are black or white, they hug each other tightly and enjoy themselves.
is just the scene of this reconciliation and it is just the appearance.
seems to be a prosperous world, but it is actually a miserable world. The lens of
is pulled back to this town.
On this day, a white police officer Steven was newly transferred to the town.
He and another white Chris and black Gwada formed a patrol team.
Their three little bosses, Chris, are not fuel-efficient lamps.
turns a blind eye to the drug dealers in the current jurisdiction.
saw a good-looking black female student, and fumbled around in the name of a body search.
He also warned Stephen of the dangerous people in this land.
These people have all kinds of viruses. Don't provoke them casually.
Steven immediately understood:
coming here as a policeman is by no means an easy task.
As expected, trouble is coming.
The local gypsy boss said that he had lost a pet lion and bluntly said that he was taken away by one of the black children. The child
was disciplined by a local person called the "mayor".
So, the boss found the "mayor" theory, with two swords drawn, and he was about to fight.
The three policemen finally persuaded them to dismiss them and promised to solve the case as soon as possible. The case of
has become apparent, it turned out to be a boy named Isa who had stolen things before.
thought that everything would be fine if Isa was captured and the place where the lion was hidden.
did not expect things to develop in unexpected directions. When the three policemen were pursuing Issa, one of them accidentally shot Issa with an air gun.
and all this is not only seen by other children around.
was also photographed by another black boy using a drone.
To prevent the video from flowing out, the three police officers must find the person who took the video as soon as possible, otherwise the reputation of the police station will be damaged.
In this search process, more and more people are involved in right and wrong.
In addition to the local snake "city"Long", the gypsy boss, and the local people who open restaurants...
things are getting bigger and bigger like a snowball. No one at
understands each other, they just act according to their own rules.
is like the movie:
"Long" anxious lion is lost, no one feeds it will starve to death;
gypsy boss believes that the lion is a tool for his survival;
police believe that the loss of the lion is a major crime of theft, not to find it is not good to deal with each other.
After twists and turns, they found Issa.
But at this time, how to deal with Issa, the three police also had a dispute.
Stephen thought that he should take the child to the hospital first.
Chris was firmly opposed to it, because this matter should be spread. The police cannot bear this responsibility.
In the end, Chris still insisted on coercing Issa to seal it up.
must not mention the matter, and the evidence taken was destroyed.
thought that after a bad day was over, everything was calm As before.
But the next day, Issa and the local blacks launched revenge.
The angry Issa picked up the incendiary bomb and came to the three policemen...
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Whether the blackened Issa finally dropped the incendiary bomb at the police The director
gave the movie an open ending.
and such a dramatic setting are also intertextually related to the novel "Les Miserables". The Paris barricade in the
novel and the band at the end of the movie The revenge chaos in the corridors has similarities. In
and in the novel, the protagonist Jean Valjean was sentenced to five years for stealing a piece of bread in order to support his family.
was sentenced to five years of escape from prison for worrying about his family. He has spent nineteen years in prison. As a low-level person,
feels the sadness of social figures and no one listens.
Back in the movie, the black child Isa started from stealing a lion to being accidentally injured and then being forced. Sealed.
is still suffering from social unfair treatment. In
, Jean Valjean, who is distorted in human nature, was finally moved by the bishop's sincere appeal. In the
movie, I finally looked at Stephen, who had rescued him.
hesitated. We don’t know whether the surviving goodness of human nature can defeat the evil formed by nature.
However, it can be seen that the director uses a modern police-civilian conflict story to express the core of the novel.
means:
There are no bad crops and no bad people, only bad crop people. "
is a pity.
has not resolved such social abuses for more than one hundred years, and tyrannical stories are still being staged. The inspiration for
is like the creation of this film from the Paris riots in 2005. In that year,
, Two North African boys were accidentally electrocuted while avoiding police chase, igniting the anger of black immigrants. As a result, a large-scale riot broke out in
, which spread from the outskirts of Paris to the whole country. There were protests in
and countless vehicles and buildings were burned down.
This commotion lasted as long as 20 days. Nearly 3,000 demonstrators were arrested and three people died.
Issues such as immigration conflicts, class differentiation, and racial discrimination still tear apart France today. The lion in the
movie is a symbol of power, and power spawns violence.
people who have the right use violence to resist violence, and those who are not valued and respected at the bottom use violence to resist. The accidental injury of the
police caused the situation to be like a domino. Chain reaction.
not only deepens the hatred between races, but also aggravates the differences in beliefs between immigrants and local residents.
children who have been slightly injured are misled, and they have gone into an abyss that cannot be recovered.
is like in the movie. Salah’s idealist said to another idealist Stephen:
is here where no one listens, no communication, no reconciliation, conflicts and contradictions exist, it is difficult to guarantee that they will still be filled with righteous indignation.
Isa stole the little lion, Almost thrown into a cage by the gypsy boss to feed the lion.
What he was afraid of was also when the evil of human nature was awakened.
His resistance is revenge against the city, a persistent confrontation against oppressing the low-level people like himself. Even
is wrong.
And Stephen, the protagonist with a sense of justice in the movie, raised his gun twice.
once pointed a gun at the gypsy who wanted to feed Issa to the lion, and the other time pointed the gun at Issa who he had saved. Such a change of
also declares the demise of idealism.
A police-civilian conflict nakedly represents the chaos of the entire Western world today.
Each person is caught in it, representing a different position, exploring the root of the problem in hesitation, but still letting history repeat itself.
The administrative order of the government conflicts with the will of the people shouting for freedom.
As long as human beings survive, such contradictions will continue.
This seems to be an unsolvable proposition.
But there is one thing we can be sure:
that is the result of violence will only be more violence.
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