After watching the movie, I went to read the novel and found it was a short story with the opposite ending. But I still treat the film as a guest interpretation. The film portrays Daru and Muhammad very concretely, and can express their thoughts more clearly. Muhammad is not a coward. He thinks he is brave. He designed everything to save his family's life. He is very persistent and must go to trial. If he didn't experience everything on the road with Dalu, he would choose the ending in the book and follow his original path. This is the place where the adaptation is wise. He realized that Dalyu, who loves life so much and hates killing, the heavy rain that almost freezes to death, the small war that killed more than ten people, those people were the people who spent the night in the cave together last night. Ah, those who are fighting for the Arabs. Muhammad had the desire and instinct to survive, but he still chose to die. Dalu said to the soldiers who shot and killed the surrendered people, it is wrong for you to do so. He said to Dalu, who still chose to die, how lucky we are to live to this day, to be alive! To die is a compromise, don't compromise! Perhaps it is precisely because he is the awkward identity of being called a French by the Arabs and an Arab by the French, which makes him more rational not to choose extreme methods. Perhaps because he was a teacher, he often used education for Muhammad. At first, he hoped that he would run away just because he saved his trouble. When he learned about his reasons later, he began to sympathize with him who didn’t even have a girlfriend. Boys who have been handed over. Perhaps it was also because he was a major and hated war killings. And his wife who died ten years ago, in the brothel, he gently put his arms around the woman's waist, buried his head on her chest, and said something that hadn't been the case for a long time. Muhammad finally realized the preciousness of his life, and finally became a truly brave man and chose that path of life.
This movie reminds me of Turin’s horse, but the vast expanse has become the high desert of Algeria. Every shot is very clean, and two people are like little sand particles in the desert, making life more precious. The protagonist’s performance is full, those deep eyes seem to speak, always indomitable, and occasionally joking with Muhammad’s smile, (especially in the early morning after heavy rain, the two were eating the bitter fruit that Muhammad found, and Said it was like bread, and then I was caught...) The reluctance to bid farewell to the students hit the audience's heart.
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