the most brilliant colonization

Emmie 2022-03-23 09:03:10

For a colonial power like Britain and France, facing the successive independence of the colonies in the past for different reasons, the huge empire eventually retracted into the European territory, and at most there are some overseas territories in the form of this kind of mood must be mixed.
However, these are two peoples who are extremely proud in their bones or on the surface, and it is intriguing to see how they express this emotion in their works of art.
I don't know the history of Vietnam very well. I also just want to talk about a little interesting metaphor in it.
The French officer who had a relationship with the plantation owner Elaine, played by Catherine Deneuve, and her adopted daughter, was named Jean Baptiste, and the adviser thought was "John the Baptist". Sure enough, after hiding for many days, the officer felt a surge of excitement one day. He picked up the baby boy he and a Vietnamese woman gave birth to, and despite the danger, found a clean stream. Standing in the water, he was going to baptize the child.
It was at this time that he was arrested. After the child was removed, he was adopted by a female plantation owner and brought back to France to grow up. So much so that when the Vietnamese delegation, including the child's biological mother, was negotiating independence in Paris, Etienne, a grown-up boy with an Asian face but an authentic French, thought about it and decided not to "recognize mother and son". . He said to Elaine: You are my mother.
Therefore, the most brilliant colonization is not the gain of political governance and trade, but the values ​​infiltrated from blood, language, religion, and culture.
Therefore, the glory of the past has not been completely lost, but it has been replaced by a more subtle existence! And the declared independence has not been fully realized, but this is another story. Anyway, the stars are changing, aren't we already talking about global integration?

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  • Dejah 2022-03-19 09:01:08

    Said’s Orientalism proves that his own sentimental plot from the Western perspective (especially the last sentence I am your child), the nostalgia for the colonial era. Only the actors and Vietnamese customs are commendable. "A ruthless woman like a rubber tree."

  • Marcel 2022-04-20 09:02:22

    The French implicitly express the meaning that the newborn still belongs to France in the end, and the Vietnamese in the camera will always give people the feeling of being uncivilized.

Indochine quotes

  • Yvette: The truth is nobody here likes you. Even the trees wouldn't grow if they had a choice!

  • Jean-Baptiste: At age ten one doesn't know the world needs to be changed.