Dennis Villewanuu, who has filmed "Prisoner", "Arrival" and "Blade Runner 2049", has successfully become one of my favorite directors. His films have a great atmosphere and first-rate narrative, but because of the lack of dramatic bursts, it is difficult for them to become popular. This "Scorched Earth City" has been lying quietly on the hard drive until yesterday I saw someone boasting about this movie, so I fished it out from the depths of the hard drive. Entering the atmosphere of the film's narrative is slow, but in the end, the subtitles appear and the computer is closed. Still can't break away from the atmosphere of the movie.
As an Arabic-speaking dog living in the Middle East, I want to sort out the timeline and general background of "Scorched Earth".
1949 was a magical year. The protagonist Naval Melwan was born in the mountains of southern Lebanon into a Christian family. This year, the founding of Israel changed the political pattern and pattern of the entire Middle East, resulting in a large number of Palestine refugees, and more than 100,000 refugees went to southern Lebanon.
In 1970, 20-year-old Nawar fell in love with a Palestinian Muslim man in a refugee camp. She was pregnant with his flesh and blood, so they decided to elope. Unfortunately, the elopement was revealed, and Navarre’s two brothers caught them and executed Navarre’s lover on the spot. Just as the "honorary murder" was about to be carried out on her, the grandma appeared and saved Navarre's life.
Honorary murder: refers to the murder of family members by the murderer in order to save the family honor. The victims are almost all women. The main reasons for the murder are "loss of virginity" and "indiscretion". Common situations include rape and suspected adultery. , Dress fashionable and behave frivolously, refuse to be appointed marriage, want divorce, etc.
In 1971, under the care of his grandmother, Navarre gave birth to a baby boy. Grandma stabbed three points on the right heel of the baby boy as a mark. The midwife was then asked to take the child to a Christian orphanage in southern Lebanon. After that, Navarre was also sent to other places to study French in a language school.
Four years later, in 1975. Religious conflicts have intensified, and civil wars are on the horizon. School was closed, and Navarre broke into the dangerous south alone out of concern for his children, looking for his own children.
On the road, she covered her head with a scarf, disguised as a Muslim, and got in a car that was all Muslim. Unexpectedly, she was attacked by Christian terrorists in the middle of the journey. At the last moment, she took out the cross and successfully saved her life, but her heart was already ashamed. After all, she watched the Christians with the image of the Virgin, strafed all the passengers in the car, and set the car on fire.
In Teresa refugee camp, what she saw was devastated and devastated. Sad and desperate, she joined a Muslim organization and determined to assassinate the leader of the Christian National Movement.
Her child was named Nihad May in the orphanage. When he was four years old, the Christian orphanage where he was located was taken over by Muslim armed groups. They trained all the orphans to be Muslim fighters and in turn killed Christians. Nihad May later became an excellent sniper. His dream was to hope that his wanted warrants would spread all over the country so that his mother might be able to find him.
In 1975 or 1976, Navarre successfully blended into the home of the leader of the national movement and taught his son French as a tutor. When the time was right, she followed the organization's arrangements and shot and killed the leader of the national movement. As a result, Naval was arrested in jail.
In 1989 or 1990, Naval received the nickname "Singing Woman" because he continued to sing in prison. The Christians tried hard to make her submit. She is the famous Prisoner #72·Singing Woman.
An executioner named Abu Tariq raped Navarre in order to make her surrender. Naval became pregnant in prison and gave birth to twins. The jailer wanted to put the twins in the river to fend for themselves, but the midwife took the child from the jailer and raised it on his behalf.
In 1990, the 15-year civil war ended, and Navarre’s imprisonment came to an end. The leader of the Muslim movement found her, gave her the twins, and arranged for the three of them to go to Canada.
In 2009, Naval and his daughter went to the swimming pool and accidentally found a man with three tattoos on his right foot. She went up to say hello, but she didn't expect it to be...
Naval collapsed, and the silence that had lasted her life was about to break. While she was dying, she left three letters, one to the elder son, one to the twins' father, and one to the twins. She made a will and asked the twins to give the letter to the eldest son and their father before they could read the third letter. Only then can I set up a tombstone for her.
In order to uncover the mother's past history, in order to fulfill the mother's will. Jenny, the girl of the twins, embarked on a journey to find her roots. But she discovered that her mother had become a scandal for the entire village. She also found out that her mother had been in prison for 15 years and was raped. She couldn't bear the truth. She called her brother Simon to come and face the truth with him.
The truth is peeling away, revealing a cruel whole picture a little bit...
At about 20 years old, his mother Navarre fell in love and became pregnant with his eldest son Nihad May.
At around 20 years old, Nihad May became a violent extremist. And Navarre, who is about 40 years old, sings every day in the prison without seeing the sky. After the rape, she became pregnant with twins.
At the age of about 20, the twins grew up, lived in Western countries, and spoke fluent French. The suffering in the Middle East seemed to have no connection with them anymore. And destiny arranged for their 40-year-old brother Nihad May to also come to Canada. At this time, they lived as a mother of Jiazi, their health deteriorated rapidly and passed away.
During the 15-year Lebanese civil war, about 1 million Lebanese fled abroad. Therefore, the plot of the eldest son also fleeing to Canada is also reasonable.
In the Middle East, every piece of land is filled with blood and tears. This is a too painful movie, I don't want to watch it again. Navarre’s actors are really well chosen. She can really represent women in the Middle East. Middle Eastern women have a strong and indomitable spirit in their bones.
Human history is a history of killing each other, but love and peace are always the most important.
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