Hi, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the entertainment sister's film review.
Not long ago, the entertainment sister watched a Canadian movie. After reading it, I tasted it for a long time and felt quite shocked. I will share this Canadian movie with you today. To say that he is a Canadian film is actually to describe the story of the tragic Boy Scouts of the African Battlefield. He also had the name "The Fall of War".
For Chinese in our new era, Africa is distant, mysterious, and dreamy. I haven't been to Africa, but I've seen a lot of African footage on TV and movies. What impressed me the most was the movie "Out of Africa" starring American Hollywood actor Meryl Streep.
The distant land, the desolate music, the wild growing wild animals and the dense jungle. It makes people yearn for it. Because of this film, many people have booked a trip to Africa for a romantic wild adventure.
But in fact, this is just the most beautiful side of Africa that I have seen, as a typical third world country, most of which is plagued by war, disease and poverty all year round. A large number of people die every day, and a large number of people are born every day. According to studies, the average life expectancy of Africans is only 41 years.
Fourteen-year-old Rachel Mawazan, the heroine of the film, which reflects the poor lives of African children, is a purely amateur actress who was discovered by director Kim Nguyen in a small African city. She has experienced homelessness, the fear of war, the disappointment and despair, and this film is an absolute cast for her. In her opinion, acting in movies is better than being homeless. So in the whole movie, the heroine is the biggest highlight.
Rachel Mawazan won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival for The Wizard of War. She is the youngest actress winner in the history of the Berlin Film Festival. And received a nomination for the most recent foreign language film at the Oscars the following year. Deserved.
The uniqueness of the whole film also comes from the ten years of precipitation of director Kim Nguyen. Director Kim Nguyen has spent a decade tracking the tragic experiences and fates of boy scouts across Africa. Because it comes from the real world, it is easier to trigger the impact and resonance of the audience.
According to a United Nations survey, there are at most 250,000 Boy Scouts in the melee across Africa. The film is from the perspective of a Boy Scout child, Camoni, showing the audience the cruelty of the African partition war, while interspersing the legends with magical colors under the realistic lens, which makes people feel heavy and sigh.
The storyline is a bit old-fashioned to be honest, but the interspersed with various photographic techniques makes the audience look boring and gripping.
The story takes place in the African Republic of the Congo, where government and civilian armed forces have been engaged in a long-term war of partition. The film begins with a brutal and bloody war scene in which the heroine Camoni is forced to pull the trigger by the Tiger Armed Forces, kills her own parents with her own hands, and is abducted by the leader of the Armed Forces to fill their Boy Scouts.
The abducted children were each handed a pistol and told them that it was their parents. The naïve children who originally had a great fear of the dead, in this jungle devil training camp, quickly grew into ruthless killing machines.
In this repressive and cold life, Carmoni has developed a supernatural ability to see ghosts and accurately locate the location of government forces through ghosts. As a result, he was revered as a war wizard by violent anti-government groups. Life began to change.
At this time, she met the love of her life. A white-haired boy, Carmoni affectionately called him "The Magician". The two children know and love each other in the cruel fate, and in order to find an agreed white rooster, they flee the organization to find the new life they yearn for.
Unfortunately, the happiness is short-lived, and although they find the white rooster, the symbol of their new life, they still do not escape the clutches of the violent armed group, and the leader of the violence kills her new husband in front of Carmoni. And let Camoni become his military prostitute.
In order to get revenge, Camoni did not hesitate to hurt her body, and finally escaped from the nightmarish organization, dragging the heavy pregnant body back to her ruined hometown, digging out the bones of her parents and burying them. At the moment of burying her parents, Camoni's superpowers seemed to gradually disappear, leaving her, and the long-suppressed feelings were released at that moment.
The film ends with Camoni giving birth in a truck to the sun after giving birth in the woods. The tragic and dramatic life of Carmoni, a little girl, is actually a sign that symbolizes the longing of the African people for peace and humanity. The newborn child is so fragile, but he is still fresh and vibrant, like a seed of peace, which is the last bit of hope left by this film to the audience.
The spark of a spark can ignite the wilderness, and hopefully the seeds can sprout and thrive, and one day will change the war-torn Africa.