Escape from the exile

Dana 2022-01-04 08:02:40

2021.06.26

In the 1930s, Western developed countries continued to punish severe penalties for many years, that is, exile. French Guiana in South America was a colony of France, and it was also a place of exile for severe prisoners in France. Australia was a British colony. , Is also a place of exile for British felons. The current Australian Prime Minister took the opportunity of the G7 summit to return to a small town called St. Kefern in the UK a few days ago. He was exiled to Australia in 1788 for stealing 2.5 kilograms of gauze. This is a family scandal of ethical ancestors in China. Maybe it’s an honor to put it on Australians. Anyway, for Australians, the crows in the world are generally black. Don’t dislike anyone. The UK is doing well, and there is no taint. Ah.

However, the protagonist of the film, Papillon, is a falsely accused man, so even if he came to the exile camp of the Criminal Authority of French Guiana in South America, he still tried every means to go back to reason. The price of the first escape was to be imprisoned in St. Joseph’s Island. Two years of imprisonment, there was no reformation, only destruction, no hope, only silence. In order to escape, I got acquainted with Louis Degas, Sillière, and Matre, who had forged national defense bonds. Four people with different opinions escaped together. As a result, they fell apart at the time of crisis, and it was a bloody storm. Fleeing to Colombia, the hateful nun betrayed them and was captured again. The punishment was five years in prison on Alcatraz. Louis was sent directly to Alcatraz because he did not listen to the warden.

In fact, Alcatraz Island is not as scary as its name, because the imprisonment there is a free-range method, but it is relatively free, but the long five-year imprisonment will make people desperate and crazy. There is only one exit to Alcatraz Island, and the guards are tightly guarded. There are cliffs tens of meters high on all sides. Even if you don’t fall to death, you can’t escape from the sea. As the saying goes, there is nothing difficult in the world, as long as you are willing to ponder, there are more ways than difficulties. There is no way to escape, relying on the waves to escape. Prepare a raft and use the tide to take us all the way to land. Everything was ready, Louis proposed to stay, the reason is the same as Bobby's must go, without the care of the world, there is no desire to escape... The brothers in trouble hug each other and bid farewell to each other, Bobby jumped off without hesitation. On the ten-meter high cliff, just as Louis on the cliff was looking desperately around, Bobby's roar came from the sea, "Louis, I succeeded, you dirty and short forger...", the two of them screamed happily. howl.

In 1969, Henry Charrière’s Bobby, who had already settled in Venezuela, took the risk to take a passenger plane back to Paris, France, and made a request to the authorities to publish his memoirs here, because it was not just Bobby’s personal life. Experience is the personal experience of many people. More than 80,000 prisoners were sentenced to exile in French Guiana, and most of them never returned to France. Henry Charrière's autobiography "Papillon" has topped the French bestseller list for 21 consecutive weeks. In 1970, the French Minister of Justice signed a decree allowing Charier to return to France and restore his status as a free man, and the French Guiana exile ceased to exist before Charier's death.

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  • Branson 2022-04-21 09:02:51

    (7.0/10) 2017 version. It looks a lot more empathetic than the 73 version, thanks in part to advances in makeup and special effects. The two main methods for a prison break movie to win the audience's sympathy are generally the wrongful imprisonment of the protagonist and the dehumanization of the prison. But I have always suspected that part of the appeal of prison break movies stems from the innermost human nature of resistance and resistance to order.

  • Issac 2022-03-24 09:02:40

    Two and a half stars. It's too mediocre, and the two leading actors are trying their best to be close to the original, but it may instead become a self-defeating imitation of the original.

Papillon quotes

  • Maturette: Papi, we made it! Papi, it's paradise here.

    Henri Charrière ('Papillon'): Yeah, but it's not home.

  • Warden Barrot: I had to come and see this for myself. Few men survive five years in solitary. What were you living for? 'Cause I don't think you're going to find it where you're going. Devils Island.