We must admit that a person cannot choose his origin from birth.
All people are divided into three, six, nine, etc. according to their living environment, living status, ethnicity, appearance characteristics, etc.
From birth, we accept our race, family, and social status.
And some people are born into a race that is rejected by everyone.
Today, Abu gives you a movie about the painful history of race.
Sami's Blood
Sameblod
The film comes from the debut of Swedish female director Amanda Knell.
It was just released and received unanimous praise.
At the 29th Tokyo Film Festival, it was nominated for Best Film in the Main Competition Section and the Grand Jury Prize in the Main Competition Section.
Lynn Cecilia Sbelk, a post-97 little girl who played the heroine, won the Best Actress Award in the main competition unit of the 29th Dongjin International Film Festival.
Although the number of people watching "Sami's Blood" is not many, it has received 7.7 praise on Douban.
Before watching this movie about the Sami people, Abu needs to popularize the science for you.
The Sami people, located in the northern Swedish city of Kiruna in the Arctic Circle, have survived for tens of thousands of years and are known as the "last indigenous people" of Europe.
This film tells the poignant growth history of Ella Maya, a little girl of the Sami tribe.
With a total population of less than 70,000, the Sami are among the fewest indigenous peoples in the world.
It has its own language, national clothing, lifestyle and eating habits, as well as its own special historical traditions and cultural background.
Such a nation inevitably faces a problem — discrimination.
Foreigners used the pejorative term "Rapp" to refer to their entire ethnic group, and even more directly called them "brainless people".
"Blood of Sami" uses flashbacks to narrate the storyline.
Ella Maya was originally a Sami, but she has always hated her homeland.
Even hated to change her name, she had never returned to her hometown for decades.
The impression of the people there is only "love to steal things, and there is no truth in the mouth".
When I said this, my face was full of disgust.
There was a reason why she hated her own race so much.
Because of the unfortunate life she had as a Sami.
Ella Maya and her sister Nina were invited to a school founded by Swedes.
The school specializes in spreading culture to the Sami and teaching them to speak Swedish.
Ella and her sister didn't dare to look up as they walked to school, they were inferior.
The school teaches a beautiful Swedish female teacher.
The teacher looked gentle and elegant, but like the people on the outside, he had an opinion of them.
Students who do not study well will be punished.
And Ella Maya, who is good at learning, is very fond of it.
Ella was chosen to be the person who greeted Uppsala because she spoke Swedish well, and Ella was happy.
But this was followed by greater disrespect.
These uppsala people who came from afar were not very big people, and their purpose was to visit the bodies of Sami children.
Obviously, these people don't see Sami children as normal people.
They measured the length and width of their skulls and the length of their noses with calipers.
Even having them strip naked for a photo, Ella, as the representative of the class, was the first to suffer such insults.
Outside the window, there were many male peeking, but those people ripped off Ella's clothes mercilessly, leaving Ella naked.
Ella could have finished her studies quietly, like all Sami children.
Then she returns to her life, taking care of her parents and domesticating herds of deer.
But these people are unreasonable, rude, terrible, and show no mercy to the adolescent children, so that Ella has lost her last dignity.
It was because of this that Ella decided that she must flee this place.
She found her esteemed teacher, but the teacher told her:
"Scientific studies have shown that your people are not suitable for living in the city."
"Your brains don't have the basic structure that urban people need."
"You must live at such heights or you will die."
Ella didn't think so.
For the sake of self-esteem, in order to work harder to become what she wants, she betrayed her identity and resolutely left her hometown, got on the train, and came to the city.
On the train, Ella was also looked at differently, and she could only sit in the aisle.
When it was late at night, they stole a piece of clothing and threw away the clothing that belonged to their nation.
Ella aspired to be like a teacher, so she changed her name to Christina.
She spoke Swedish and washed away the stench of reindeer.
She wants to try to be what she wants to be in her own way.
Ella is short and obese, and compared to Swedish girls of the same age, she seems out of place.
The discerning person could immediately see that Ella was a Sami.
So Ella also seduced a Swedish boy in her own way, hoping to use it to become a Swede.
Obviously, this is not possible.
Ella's awakening to sex and her awakening to cultural differences happened almost simultaneously.
Ella goes against the old saying of the Sami and has a relationship with a Swedish boy.
Did not keep that "purity."
Swapping bodily fluids, exchanging genes, which is probably a step for Ella to become a Swede in her own way.
The plot behind Abu is not spoiler, leave it to you to watch for yourself.
The title of this film "Sami's Blood" is not out of thin air.
Ella did pay the price of blood in order to change her Sami bloodline.
The film appears in blood three times, witnessing Ella's bitter growth history.
The first time, it was Ella who cut her sister's ear tag for the deer's ear.
The Sami custom of cutting off ear tags is to prove that the fawn has belonged to itself and to prove its owner's identity.
At the same time, the ancient customs of the local area are explained.
The second time, it was Ella herself, because the little bastards always bullied themselves, and Ella wanted to get an apology.
Unexpectedly, she got a situation like the fawns.
The threw her in the grass and cut her ear, a huge turning point in Ella's mind.
The last time there is blood in the film, it is Ella who kills her reindeer with her own hands.
In order to make up for the tuition fees for school outside, Ella is ready to sell deerskins.
In this part, Ella watched the blood of the reindeer flow out little by little, as if her Sami blood had all been shed here.
It perfectly explains Ella's disgust with this identity and her determination to get out of her race and no longer be bound.
The film doesn't tell the story of how Ella got out of the race and became what she wanted to be a Swede.
But we can imagine that Ella must have suffered all kinds of difficulties.
So is Ella happy inside?
Not really!
Ella knew that her people would not forgive her, and she had never returned for decades.
Until his sister died.
The elderly Ella gently approached her dead sister's face and said, "Please forgive me."
These four words contain the guilt of this life.
Ella knew in her heart that the blood in her body was always the blood of the Sami people.
Ella naively thinks that she will be Christina for the rest of her life, but in the eyes of the clan, she has always been Ella and cannot be changed.
The little actress who plays Ella, Lynn Cecilia Sbelk, is really great at acting, when brave, like a warrior in the northern war, and when vulnerable, like a little girl who needs someone to protect her.
And are the choices Ella made in her life wrong? No, she just wants to be like a normal person, to be respected with equal eyes and equal behavior.
What is wrong is that she lives in an unequal world, and what is wrong is the racial issue that has been ignored.
This article was first published in the public account of belly black movies: fhmovie.