【Thinking about the movie】

Laurie 2022-04-19 09:02:52

The deepest feeling after watching the movie is: the desert under the moonlight, the beautiful scenery under the dawn, on such a beautiful land, there are so many suffering souls struggling in pain. The contrast between beauty and pain is so stark, so incongruous, and so absurd. The film is adapted from Camus' "The Visitor", which is still very different from the novel. I feel that the film is easier to read Camus' philosophy than the novel. Recently I have been immersed in Camus' "The Myth of Sisyphus", and this re-reading of "The Myth of Sisyphus" shocked me a bit. When I watched this film today, I naturally associated it with The Myth of Sisyphus. In the film, I saw the absurdity and resistance discussed in The Myth of Sisyphus. Although the movie was dull, I liked it very much. Immediately after watching the movie, I went to read the novel "The Visitor", which made me feel that without the film and "The Myth of Sisyphus" as a foreshadowing, reading "The Visitor" would be difficult to understand Camus' philosophy in the book. Although the novel is short, Camus perfectly integrates his philosophical ideas. In that corner far away from the world, since there are so many absurd things, both in terms of their cognition and values, they all seem so absurd in the eyes of the protagonist. Teacher Daru clearly sees these things. absurd. It was precisely because the teacher Daru was soberly aware of the absurdity of that society that he started to resist, out of sympathy for the boy accused of murder, he let the boy run away, get out of here, just live, which clearly showed me the Camus philosophy, It is against these absurd resistances that people find the value of their own existence. "Camus believed that the existential belief in the meaning of life always sets the hierarchy of values, and the absurd is the one who finally threw himself into the raging flames of human resistance after realizing the absurdity. The absurd deduces the path of the absurd man of my resistance, my freedom, and my passion."

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  • Dwight 2022-04-24 07:01:23

    It happened that I just finished watching "Captain Fantastic". It turns out that Viggo Mortensen played this French film first and won a bunch of awards, and then the "Captain" was cast while the iron was hot. It should be in this order. The film is based on Camus' short novel "The Visitor", and it explores the sense of belonging between Algerians and French people through their encounters on the road. 7.3 points

  • Brendon 2022-04-20 09:02:30

    V Guo speaks French too much.

Far from Men quotes

  • Mohamed: Tu cries comme ça à la classe?

    [Do you shout at your pupils like that?]

  • Daru: [Of being of Spanish descent in Algeria] Pour les français, on était des arabes, et maintenant pour les arabes, on est des français.

    [For the French, we were Arabs; and now for the Arabs, we are French]