film "Loin des hommes" is adapted from the short story "The Guest" by the famous French writer Albert Camus. Conscience raised all kinds of questions, and once again showed his attitude towards humanity and war. In contrast, the original work tends to be realistic and relatively concise, and the presentation of the film not only highlights its deep literary side, but also makes additions, extensions and sublimations in line with the form of film expression, making the two complement each other.
The identity of the protagonist Dalyu in the film is very embarrassing, just like Camus in reality. As a descendant of a colonist born in Algeria, he is an Arab in the eyes of the French, and a French in the eyes of the Arabs. During the Algerian War of Independence, the author who stood at the height of humanity and humanity and the protagonist in his works also had a dilemma that they could not choose.
The title of the film is "Far from the People", and the scenes in the film are often so quiet and so quiet that they seem to be in a man’s land, but the plot described in the film is full of contradictions, conflicts and troubles related to the human world. , Such as killing and revenge, war and independence, civilization and charcoal, stand and standing in line, etc. Therefore, in the background of time and space such as Algeria in 1954, even with the original intention of staying away from humans, living quietly, and leaving the rest of your life, you have to Surround yourself with others, think with others, consider with others, and then make your own choices.
At the beginning of the film, the protagonist Dalu is an elementary school teacher. He teaches French to local Algerian children in a lonely mountain classroom, while the poor children travel long distances to school every day in exchange for rations to take home. The life of Daru, an older man, seemed to be both fragmented (his wife died young and he lived alone in the rudimentary school building) and well-placed (the man who seemed firm and cold when teaching was so warm), but , Uninvited guests suddenly came to the door, making Dalu's life an irreversible change.
Aldous Huxley said: "Experience is not what happened to a person, but what he did to deal with everything that happened." Daru is a person with past experience, and he will Do something to deal with what is about to happen-the honest Algerian villager Muhammad chose to kill his cousin and then surrendered. It was also a choice that had to be sacrificed to "consider the overall situation" in the struggle between the real dilemma and national customs. So, Dalu, an old gun, had to
push his horse to the end of the world again... The tough screen tough guy Vigo Mortensen with a stern appearance seems to be very suitable for starring people like Dalu with a past. The film is given to Dalu. The added status of a major in the French Foreign Legion during World War II seems to fit Mortensen’s image, and it also makes Daru face a more complicated and awkward situation in the film. For example, they escorted Mohammed to the police station on the way to surrender. First captured by the Alfighty Independence Army, and later rescued by the French government forces, the Independence Army has many of Dalu’s old men during World War II. They loosened him to reminisce about the past, and the French Army Jindalu was a hero of World War II, and he was regarded as a reserve. The officer, then, before Dalu was still the question of choosing sides.
In Vigo Mortensen’s interpretation of Dalu, apart from the vicissitudes of the corners of the eyes and eyebrows, and the vicissitudes of his gestures, he also has a level of temperament, especially in getting along with Muhammad, from the initial estrangement from his politeness to his anger. Indisputable, to empathy with his situation, from having to escort at the beginning, to mutual concern during local wars in the desert, to the hope that Muhammad could be offered another choice... and Rida Katay seemed to always be there. Acting as an Algerian in a French movie, Mohammed, who he played, seemed to be spiritually shackled when he appeared on the stage. He also squeezed the character's despair from the beginning to the slight hope of seeing the little hope at the end.
The film has a simple but clear aesthetics in the setting and performance of the scene. For example, when reproducing the scene of the independent army being encircled and suppressed, it is very skillful to let the audience only hear the roar of the bullet, see the bullet hit and the personnel falling to the ground, defaulting to the encirclement and suppression. The frontal shot of the shooter made the picture full of things other than words. In addition, the location scenes of the film are beautiful and spectacular, capturing the vast and lonely mountainous scenery of North Africa. When the protagonist changes the trajectory of an honest person's life and returns to the elementary school by night, the night in North Africa is magnificent and desolate. The statue of Dalyu, who is walking alone on the ridge, walks in the sky, and the bright moon in the sky is very bright, but also very desolate. It is reminiscent of Pablo Neruda's saying: "He is like the night, with silence and stars. "
Under the cover of such a clean, cold and beautiful scenery, the next day, Dalu, who is both a soldier and a teacher, taught the children his "last lesson" here. Yes, Dalu has a higher human conscience. War is higher than the verdict and higher than the secular, which also determines that he must leave...
Steve Rogers said: "A war can be won by one person." Yes, sometimes, it may happen.
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