Out of Africa Comments

  • Otto 2022-03-23 09:02:11

    At the 1985 Oscars, this empty, hypocritical, and cutout colonial nostalgic scenery film won seven awards including best picture, director, and photography (Kurozawa Akira's shadow warrior only won the best costume award). This is the best footnote to the Western mentality and imagination of colonial history, Africa and Africans in the 1980s. To this day, I still take pride in fighting lions because of the colonial coolness created by this...

  • Laverna 2022-03-23 09:02:11

    At the 1985 Oscars, this empty, hypocritical, and cutout colonial nostalgic scenery film won seven awards including best picture, director, and photography (Kurozawa Akira's shadow warrior only won the best costume award). This is the best footnote to the Western mentality and imagination of colonial history, Africa and Africans in the 1980s. To this day, I still take pride in fighting lions because of the colonial coolness created by this...

  • Erwin 2022-03-23 09:02:11

    There are many possessions that cannot be seen or touched, left or taken away, and eventually become part of our spirit. We are bent on changing the world, and in the end we can only change ourselves. Compared with the vast land of Africa, we are too small, but such a small us, working hard to live, love hard, and pursue happiness and freedom, is it not a wonderful...

  • Barton 2022-03-23 09:02:11

    There are many possessions that cannot be seen or touched, left or taken away, and eventually become part of our spirit. We are bent on changing the world, and in the end we can only change ourselves. Compared with the vast land of Africa, we are too small, but such a small us, working hard to live, love hard, and pursue happiness and freedom, is it not a wonderful...

  • Maudie 2022-03-22 09:02:03

    Everything that happens in Africa stays in Africa. From the beginning to the end, the wanton love and hatred of life and death are small and vast, which has never been changed by my departure or arrival. I never really set foot in Africa and look back on those decades now like a bystander. I am afraid that what Africa has given me is this kind of detachment and eternal loneliness between heaven and...

  • Katlyn 2022-03-22 09:02:03

    I want a kind of vastness of life, like the vast and boundless savannah of Africa. I want you by my side, like where Kilimanjaro is forever. Many years later, I still dream of there, the morning mist is faint, the sunrise is in the east, accompanied by Mozart's music, a group of lions are wandering. . . Turns out I've never been out in my...

  • Mckenzie 2022-03-22 09:02:03

    Despite its stellar reputation, Out of Africa is clearly a work of disillusionment. The lonely end of personal destiny is a denial of the early colonial path, and you end up not getting what's not yours. Love is really like the gorgeous coat in "The Golden Age", but inside it is a kind of bloody savagery and cruelty. It is a pity that on the vast African continent, there are many possibilities for human nature, but we have seen the smallest...

  • Renee 2022-03-21 09:02:12

    A well-recognized...

  • Idella 2022-03-21 09:02:12

    "I had a compass from Denys. "To steer by," he said. But later it came to me that we navigated differently. Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the...

  • Cyrus 2022-03-21 09:02:12

    88/100 Whether it was high school or now, there is a huge loneliness that comes to mind watching this movie. "I had a farm in Africa."..."I had a place in Beijing."...."I had a dream...

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  • Immanuel 2022-04-23 07:02:35

    the profound happiness and sadness

    If it is a love story, it is too superficial; if it is a feminist film, it is too incomprehensible. So, this should be a feminist movie with love mixed in, right?
        Let's talk about the heroine Karen in the film. Not everyone can live her life without the opportunity, ability, enthusiasm, and...

  • Libbie 2022-03-21 09:02:12

    Can't escape emotion, can't escape fate

    It was fine at night, so I dug out the old movie "Out of Africa" ​​that I bought before and watched it. This movie starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford won many Oscars in 1985, beautiful African scenery; simple African people; sincere love, rough fate... It is truly magnificent and...

Out of Africa quotes

  • Karen Blixen: If you say anything now... I'll believe it.

    [to Denys, immediately after they kiss in her tent]

  • Denys: [to Karen, whose horse has run away, leaving her at the mercy of an approaching lion] I wouldn't run. If you do, she'll think you're something good to eat.

    Karen Blixen: [staring at lion] Have you - Do you have a gun?

    Denys: She won't like the smell of you.

    Karen Blixen: Shoot - shoot it.

    Denys: She's had breakfast.

    Karen Blixen: Please shoot her.

    Denys: Well, let's give her a moment.

    Karen Blixen: [as lion comes closer] Oh my God, shoot her!

    [Lion approaches Karen then wanders off into brush]

    Karen Blixen: Just how much closer did you expect to let her come?

    Denys: A bit. It wanted to see if you'd run. That's how they decide. A lot like people that way.

    Karen Blixen: She almost had me for lunch!

    Denys: Well, it wasn't her fault, Baroness. She's a lion.

    Karen Blixen: Well, it wasn't mine.

    Denys: Doesn't that outfit come with a rifle?

    Karen Blixen: Ye-ah, uh.

    [looks around]

    Karen Blixen: On my saddle.

    Denys: Better keep it with you. Your horse isn't much of a shot.