A cruel and sad story

Dana 2022-12-19 21:33:21

The new American film "Stillwater City" is a film based on the true events of the "Knox Case" in which Meredith Kercher, a British exchange student at the University of Perugia in Italy, was raped and murdered in 2007. And the sad story, the whole film is more heavy to watch. The American father Bill in the film is a blue-collar man who is neither rich nor fluent in French. He visits his daughter in France and looks for witness evidence to overturn the case for his daughter, trying every means to prove her innocence. The film reveals a cultural fragmentation. Different languages ​​have different cultures. This acquired subjective and objective difference is inevitable. "Americans" and "French" are completely different and even conflicting in many concepts. Only the innocent children who have not been matured by the local culture do not care about this difference, but only care about true love, so there is a little girl Maya in the film who confides directly to Bill: "I like Americans." The world There is still one universal thing, and that is love. There is also a very warm plot in the film. The simplicity, sincerity, and trust between Westerners make people very warm. The mother of the little girl Maya can let Bill, an American who doesn't understand at all, live in her own home. It is unimaginable here. of.

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Stillwater quotes

  • Allison: [Chuckles] Have you seen her act?

    Bill: What am I gonna do in a fuckin' theater?

    Allison: [laughs] Yeah

  • Allison: [Alternating between French and English] Don't get your hopes too high with my dad. He's a fuck-up. Always has been. It's just in him. I know because... I've got it in me too.