For "Candid" Georges, the main character, is personally his hidden corner of Majid, an Algerian orphan whose parents are missing from the 1961 massacre. In his childhood, George falsely accused Marchett of intimidating himself out of selfishness, so that his parents gave up the idea of adopting and sent Marchett to an orphanage. This childhood shadow became George's guilt-laden.
What Hannica said is true, the same story can be viewed from different levels, not only from the personal level of George, but also from the socio-political level to elevate the relationship between George and Marget to that of France and Algeria. historical and political aspects. As we all know, Algeria was once a French colony, and since 1954, the eight-year-long Algerian War of Independence occurred (refer to the movie "Battle of Algiers" (Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle of Algiers, 1966). Among them, 10 in 1961 On March 17, 30,000 Algerians responded to the call of the Front de Liberation Nationale (FLN) to protest in Paris, striving for Algeria's independence from French colonial rule. The French police beat them to the point of coma, and even some demonstrators were thrown into the Seine-et-Marne river and drowned. The number of the dead is still unknown. The incident has always been a forbidden area of French politics until it was officially confirmed in 1999.[2] The government does not dare to face it face to face, and has not repented for the guilt of the past for many years.
As early as 1945, Camus, an anti-war, had said: "The world today is full of hatred in every direction, violence and force everywhere, carnage and noise everywhere, which pollute the air and make us As in the dreadful fog of poison, all we can do, whether it is for the truth of France or the truth of mankind, is to make it work against hatred." Ten years later, Camus wrote in a letter "I would like to believe, and strongly believe, that peace will appear in our fields, in our mountains and on our shores," the letter said. "At that time, the Arabs and the French will renew under the banner of liberty and justice. Reconciliation, then we will try to forget the blood of today that separates our two peoples.”[3] However, the world today is still full of hatred and despair, and humanity has not yet returned to its peaceful homeland.
The news clips of the Middle East conflict that appeared in Candid Photography are the hidden corners of the Western world and the guilt of the Western world. From every person to every country, there is bound to be guilt and injustice. George in the movie deeply hides his infamous past. It was not until those mysterious videos and pictures were delivered to his home that he tried to face the selfishness and sin of the past. He had no regrets from beginning to end, and when he swallowed the sleeping pills and fell asleep, it seemed as if nothing had happened. France and Algeria, Japan and China, the United States and the Middle East are full of hatred, the latter waiting for the former's repentance, but the former waiting for the latter's forgiveness? Did Margit and George's son really talk in the final scene? I can't see it, but I'd rather believe I saw their reconciliation.
About sin and fear, existential philosopher Soren Kierkegaard has long talked about in "The Concept of Fear": "Sin enters into fear, but sin in turn brings fear. Of course, actual sin is not Persistence. On the one hand, the persistence of sin brings the possibility of fear. On the other hand, the possibility of salvation is a nothingness that the individual loves and fears, because the individual has a constant possible relationship with this. Only Fear is overcome only at the moment when salvation is actually determined.”[4] Sin and fear are symbiotic concepts. Before salvation, sin and fear are a reality that cannot be overcome, while fear is a state of reality brought about by sin. a possibility.
Kierkegaard added: "If I am afraid of a past sin, it is because I did not place its physical relationship with me to the past fraud, or another person prevented it from becoming the past. If it is in the past, then I have no fear, but only repentance.”[5] Only through repentance, when sin is established, will fear disappear. In "Hidden Fear", George has never repented of his past selfishness. He may have put that childhood memory behind him, but the persistence of sin has not disappeared, and both generations of Algerian Majette have not had the opportunity to accept the good. education, what they learn is hatred. Mysterious videos and pictures bring the possibility of fear, but George is not in the driftwood of faith, seeking the boat of salvation, and sincerely repenting, as Kierkegaard pointed out, one must face the possibility sincerely and hold on to it With faith, fear is instructive, and man also rests in atonement. George in the movie is on sleeping pills to fall asleep, which just shows his fear and anxiety.
In the end, did Margette reconcile with George's son or did it cause another level of hatred? The audience doesn't know. After all, who made those mysterious videos and pictures? The audience doesn't know either. Because George is the watched, the audience is the watcher and the watched, only the transcendent judge is the watcher, the ultimate watcher, looking at George, looking at me, and looking at you.
[1] http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/50/hanekeiv.htm
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_massacre_of_1961
[3] Camus (2002), The Complete Works of Camus, Shijiazhuang City: Hebei Education Publishing House, pp. 292, 296
[4] Soren Kierkegaard (1980), The concept of anxiety : a simple psychologically orienting deliberation on the dogmatic issue of hereditary sin, Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press p.53
[5] Ibid, p.91-92
(published in "Platform" sixth issue)
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