Africa, a synonym for ecology and poverty. Here, tragic nature's choices are constantly staged. At the same time, on this thick land, there have also been one tear-jerking love story after another, sometimes joyful, sometimes warm, sometimes heartbreaking touching love is still scattered in this boundless land, and the dazzling sunshine is rooted in people's hearts. Let's take stock of the touching love stories that have taken place in this land on the screen.
Beyond boundaries
Beyond Borders (2003), @Douban score 7.7. Angelina Jolie, starring Cliff Owen. It tells the story of a male doctor and a female social activist in a land ravaged by war and poverty, developing a legendary love story that transcends identity, age, and space.
Nick works all year round in difficult conditions and even life-threatening countries, providing medical assistance to those who endure hunger and disease in the midst of war. Touched so much, Sarah gave up her existing life to travel to Ethiopia to join Nick's teammates in the rescue effort. From the barren and ravaged Ethiopia to the war-torn Vietnam to the riots in Chechnya, this pair of lovers who transcend borders, races, and time and space have given everything for a common belief...
The film is not a film with Africa as the only scene, but the love of the hero and heroine is sprouted in Africa. This is also the most personal film of Angelina Jolie since the film.
Cairo time
Cairo Time Cairo Time (2009), @Douban score 7.9. The film tells the story of Juliet and her husband's good friend Talek spending time together in exotic Cairo and accidentally falling in love. The déjà vu emotions and meaningful sights of the heroes and heroines in the story exude a strange and charming flavor because of Cairo. The film has the repression of reminiscing about the past in old movies, and the nervous and uneasy emotions of Jane Austen's pen.
Juliet Grant (Patricia Clarkson) flies from Canada to Cairo, Egypt, on holiday with her husband Mark (Tom McCamus), who is gathering a lot, but before she gets off the plane, she is told that her husband, who is in charge of the management of the UN refugee camp, cannot leave because of the new armed conflict in the Gaza Strip. Markto's former security officer, the Egyptian Talek (Alexander Siddig) takes care of Juliet.
At an embassy party, Juliet meets Catherine (Elena Anaya), a young woman in a similar situation to her, and the two travel together on a trip to the White Desert, where Catherine describes her old love affair with an Egyptian. Later, Talek takes Juliet on a tour of Cairo's beautiful scenery, and Juliet discovers that she has developed a love for him in her constant contact with Talek. The delicate feelings made Juliet extremely sad...
The film won the Best Local Film Award at the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada.
Immortal gardener
The Constant Gardener (2005), @Douban score 8.0. The film includes a variety of elements such as love, politics, suspense, and can even be used as a tourism propaganda film and a charity film. At the end of the day, the film is a film about love. Whether it is the protagonist's great love for the Kenyan people, or the small love between the male and female protagonists, this is love. However, the love in this film is a little more sad, the love has just been found and the person has died.
Justin (Ralph Fiennes), a diplomat at the British Embassy in Kenya, is easy-going and has a mundane life, and usually loves to take care of the flowers and trees in his garden. One day, however, bad luck befell the transcendent man. His wife, Tessa (Rachel Weisz), a justice lawyer, is found dead outside and found to have been killed by her lover.
Justin was struck by this sunny thunderbolt, and after angry, he carefully considered and felt that the official statement was full of loopholes, so the peaceful and gentle man vowed to find out the truth about his wife's death. After many difficulties in forensics, Taylor finally gradually approached the truth of the incident, and it turned out that Tessa discovered that a British pharmaceutical factory with a deep political background was here to use AIDS patients to test their new drugs, and led to the tragic deaths of hundreds of AIDS patients!
Love in Africa
Nirgendwo in Afrika (2001) aka Where is My Home, @Douban score 8.2. This love story did not begin in Africa, but was reborn in Africa. Love is like a sealed viscous honey, a rich and stable living environment will keep it fresh and textured, but when the misfortune of fate begins to dilute this jar of honey little by little, how to ensure its sweetness becomes a thorny problem. Under the test of reality, the thin eggshell of love cracked, and the two began to examine their hearts in hesitation, starting from the most sincere emotions in their hearts to love each other. When love is rekindled in the hearts of the two, here love is reborn in Nirvana.
The story begins in 1938, and the shadow of the impending war hangs over every Jew. In order to take refuge, Walter (Miller Niñiz Merab Ninidze) takes his wife Jetta (Juliane Köhler) and daughter Regina (Lea Kurka) to the African continent, hoping to escape the war and start a new life there.
At first, the harsh natural environment and completely different way of life made Jetta feel very uncomfortable, and under great pressure, she vented all her anger and resentment on her husband, and the relationship between the husband and wife became precarious. However, with the passage of time and the succession of accidents, Jetta gradually got used to a life full of hardships but also full of happiness, and also learned to cherish the people in front of her. The young Regina was even more immersed in the exotic culture and made many friends in the local area. The war was over, and the family's whereabouts became the biggest problem.
British patient
The English Patient (1996), @Douban score 8.4. Set against the backdrop of war and desert, the film plays a love tragedy that spans time and space.
A British plane was shot down by the Germans while flying over the Sahara Desert, and the pilot was called the "British Patient" because he was wounded and could not remember who he was. Hannah, a nurse at a field hospital, decided to stay alone to care for the British patient. The place where they stayed was an abandoned monastery in Italy, far from the hustle and bustle of the war, appearing quiet and leisurely, the "English patient" lying quietly on the wooden bed of the room, and an old book at the head of the window gradually aroused his thoughts...
A love, burning in the flames of war, transcends morality and changes the tide of battle. The archaeologist, Earl Emmaus (Ralph Fiennes), follows the explorer to the Sahara Desert and meets Jeffrey, the pilot who draws the map, and his wife, Catherine (Kristen Scott Thomas Kristin Scott Thomas). Catherine's talent and beauty fascinated Emmaus, and when the two visited the murals in a deep cave in the desert, they found that they were more like-minded. Morality ultimately triumphed over passion. After Catherine and Emmaus break up, Jeffer discovers his wife's affair. A distraught Jeffer pilots a plane in an attempt to die with his wife and Emmaus, who is lucky enough to escape the attack, but causes Catherine to be seriously injured and killed. Amash rushed to his beloved and placed her in a cave, promising to come out of the desert and find help. However, things are not as easy as imagined. In order to save people, he took the charge of treason and provoked the disaster of killing himself, and in the end he did not break his promise, but Gavlian had left him forever in the cold... Emmaus puts Gaffleen's body on a plane and is shot down by the Germans as she flies over the Sahara Desert, leading to the opening scene of the film.
During her days of caring for the "British patient", Hannah met Kip, an Indian bomb breaker, and the two fell in love with each other. Even if the war is over, The Bomb Disposalist Kip will still have to face death countless times. Eventually, at the request of the British patient, Hannah injected him with a large dose of morphine...
Blood drills
Blood Diamond (2006), also known as Blood Diamond, @Douban score 8.5. This classic film depicts a story in a vast North African desert, as magnificent as an epic, and the film won nine awards including the 69th Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director for its excellent artistic standards. Set against the backdrop of Sierra Leone's 1999 civil war, the film tells the story of a lawless man played by Leonardo DiCaprio who smuggles diamonds in Africa and who, after meeting a journalist, undergoes a major reversal of his thinking and finally understands the true meaning of life and love.
In Sierra Leone, Africa, in the 1990s, the land was devastated by successive wars, and the illegal diamond trade became increasingly rampant.
Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio), an authentic war dealer who makes a living selling wartime diamonds, learns in prison that the fisherman Solomon has the finest pink diamonds in his hand. Realizing that this was his chance to leave Africa, after his release from prison, he found Solomon and prepared to find the diamond with him and leave Africa.
Solomon is an ordinary fisherman, because of the civil war and family separation, forced by the rebels to mine diamonds, he found a fine pink diamond, hidden; when the war came, Solomon went to prison, was rescued by Archer, and with the help of war correspondent Maddie Bowen (Jennifer Connery), found the lost family, at this time, his son Dia was taken away by the rebels, his life and death are uncertain.
A distraught Solomon agrees to work with Archer to find the diamond within the rebels' control and to find his son. Two very different people, because a blood diamond linked fate.
God is crazy too
The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980), @Douban score 8.8. The film is a comedy directed by Janice Euis and starring Sarah Binslu and others. The film tells the story of four unrelated characters. God wants all mankind to be happy, so he wants to create a second great madness. The zoologist and the female doctor flew the plane into the desert, so they began their difficult and embarrassing adventures. Female doctors from big cities are like superhuman cunning apes when they encounter danger; zoologists who are not afraid of danger have also begun to fight with honey badgers and scorpions. After many hardships, the two finally walked together!
On the vast African continent, modern civilization and primitive society coexist in harmony. In the heart of the Kalahari Desert, six thousand kilometers from the modern metropolis, live the Bushmen who have not yet been influenced by foreign civilizations. They slash and burn, hunt and farm, and live a peaceful life of indisputable and reverence for nature. One day, a Coke bottle from modern civilization disrupted their immutable days. Ki (N!xau), who first discovered the bottle, brought it back to the tribe, and the tribesmen marveled at the perfect construction and versatility of the Coke bottles, believing them to be a gift from God. However, the excitement was soon replaced by a different kind of emotion, and the people who were accustomed to equality and commonality began to want to take the bottle for themselves, and contradictions quietly arose. Ji does not want to see the clan quarrel and fight, so he decides to return the Coke bottle to God, just to restore the once peaceful and happy life...
Out of Africa
Out of Africa (1985), @Douban score 8.5. Adapted from Karen Brickson's autobiographical novel of the same name, the film tells the story of Karen's marriage to Kenya in order to get the title of a baroness, and she later develops a relationship with the British explorer Dennis. From time to time, the film is also interspersed with songs or melodies with typical African characteristics, which are brought to people together with this grassland.
Karen (Meryl Streep) is a wealthy woman who loves vanity, and in order to get the title of a baroness, she leaves her native Denmark to marry Kenya in East Africa, but the title of baroness does not bring Karen a happy married life. Fortunately, in that vast land, Karen could often go out hunting and exploring, and she gradually fell in love with this magical land. During a hunting encounter, Karen meets a young British nobleman, Dennis (Robert Redford). After the breakdown of her marriage and the departure of her husband, Karen took on the task of running the manor independently, and in the process of labor, Karen gradually developed a deep friendship with the servants on the plantation, and her relationship with Dennis seemed to have progressed. The god of fate did not make Karen smooth sailing from then on, a fire forced her to sell the manor to alleviate financial constraints, and then Dennis's accidental death in the plane gave her another heavy blow. After going through the trials of life, Karen finally bid farewell to the land where she sprinkled youth and enthusiasm...
The film won seven awards at the 58th Academy Awards in 1986, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay.
Casablanca
Casablanca (1942), Douban score 8.6. The film tells the story of Rick, a businessman, holding a precious pass during World War II, and the arrival of anti-Nazi Victor and his wife Ilsa, which rekindles Rick's old love affair with Ilsa, and the two face emotional and political contradictions. In 1944, the film won three awards at the 16th Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. This film is very old, everyone has seen it, and I don't have much to say.
During World War II, Casablanca was a must-see place for Europe to flee to the United States, where there was a mixture of fish and dragons and tensions. Rick (Humphrey Bogart) is a mysterious businessman who runs a popular nightclub in Casablanca and has two valuable passes. One day, anti-Nazi Victor and his wife, Irsha (Ingrid Bergman), arrive at a nightclub to escape the Nazis. As it happens, Rick discovers that Ilsa turned out to be his old lover. That love was once unforgettable, but it was terminated by a misunderstanding. When the misunderstanding dissolves, the relationship between Ilsa and Rick inevitably rekindles. Rick's two passes help Victor through the storm, but that leaves Irsa's decision to stay or leave, and where their love is headed in a political and ethical bout.
Human beings originated in Africa, love is rooted in Africa, when will you be able to pursue your African dream?
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