Guess who in the picture below is Camus, a professional player and part-time writer?
In 1930, the first Fifa World Cup was held in Uruguay. That same year, the writer Albert Camus, who would later win the Nobel Prize in Literature, gave up his dream of becoming a professional footballer because of a tuberculosis. But Camus loved football all his life, and he once said: "Only through football can I understand people and their souls." "Football teaches us ethics and responsibility."
He was in the front row from the left, when he was 16 years old and played as a goalkeeper for the Atlético d'état de Algeria.
About the charm of football, the world has talked too much, it is complex and simple, ancient and modern, full of suspense and game, it is a team-to-team, city-to-city, country-to-country confrontation, but also a contest and collision between different cultures and different ways of thinking. In today's world, perhaps the more important implication is that it deepens the connection between people and brings more meaning to our lives beyond money and the world.
The fierce battle of the 2018 World Cup in Russia is in full swing, and we have selected 8 films with football as the theme that have been well received in recent years to feel the joy and sorrow and reflection that football brings to the world.
Referee (Italy)
Director: Paul Zuka
Time: 2013
Hailed as the perfect combination of Fossa and Fellini films, the film is a dreamlike black-and-white image, history and the present pile up and collapse, three parallel threads intertwined: Madrid Pabali is the worst of sardinian second-rate football leagues, humiliated by the neighboring town team every year, and must lose every game; the young immigrant Matus returns home to completely reverse the current situation of the Pabali team, and his extraordinary football talent has won one victory after another for the team Professional referee Cruciani wants to referee international matches to increase his influence in international football, but things are always unpredictable, because of the black whistle problem, he was sent to town to enforce the game... Can Mastu win the heart of the coach's daughter Miranda? Will Crucciani be able to direct that crucial championship game? The humorous and dramatic narrative makes the whole film like a timeless little poem - football is air wrapped in leather, but life is always like a game.
Crazy Orange (Netherlands)
Director: Pym van Hove
Time: 2018
The "uncrowned king" Dutch team missed the 2018 World Cup in Russia, which made many fans sigh, but the tulip country, which is rich in football genius, launched a movie this year with the joys and sorrows of ordinary people during the World Cup. The light-hearted and humorous story takes place during the 2010 World Cup, when the whole of The Netherlands became an ocean of orange. A groom who fainted at a wedding, a writer who didn't like football, a young couple who never got their baby pregnant, a young girl who decided to jump off a building, a journalist who interviewed refugees, a player who never played, a puppy with predictive powers like "Paul the Octopus"... The fate of these ordinary little people has been changed by all kinds of absurd and comical coincidences and accidents in this competition.
Taste of Dreams: Mondevidia (Serbia)
Directed by Dragan Bijeloglić
Time: 2010
In 2010, Serbia was shortlisted for the World Cup in South Africa, and director Bijeloglić made the film a tribute to the once glorious Yugoslav football, taking the audience back to the era of Yugoslavia, which was founded after World War I, and its football rise. Mondevidia was the capital of Uruguay and the site of the first World Cup in 1930, when Yugoslavia was the only European team to come to the tournament despite the difficulties and beat Brazil to reach the semi-finals, but eventually lost to host Uruguay. Based on the Yugoslav star Telk, the film shows the growth of a boy and a small-town football team, and the difficult and heartwarming process of representing their country in the first World Cup. "Life is not football, because football has a second half, and life does not. So why not create? "The film caused a sensation in Serbia, a war-torn land where football is divided by politics and people are united by football.
Ball Moving Africa (UK)
Director: Debbs Patterson
Rwandan boy Fabris is an avid football fan, and his biggest wish is to one day go to the World Cup to watch a match. The World Cup in South Africa gave him hope, and in order to achieve his wish, Fabris and two friends embarked on a journey to South Africa on foot, on the way, they met two other children, and the five children traveled across the African continent to South Africa. During this fairytale journey of nearly 5,000 kilometers, the children witnessed the cruelty of reality, also felt the warmth of the world, and most importantly, they let the world see the power of dreams and perseverance.
Messi (Spain)
Directed By: Alex de la Iglesia
Time: 2014
The autobiographical film "Messi", directed by Spanish director Ignis, fully describes the childhood to fame of Argentine football superstar Messi, is a semi-documentary and semi-feature film, which interviews Messi's friends, teammates, coaches, football star players, etc., and shoots in Rosario, Buenos Aires, Barcelona and other three places.
'We know he's a genius on the pitch and we want to know what kind of person he is off the pitch.'
Messi's childhood was "recreated" in a drama mode, the script was written by former Argentine national team player Jorge Valdano, in order to seek authenticity, the audition to find a 9-year-old Inasio who looked like Messi to play the process of Messi suffering from hormone deficiency in childhood, unable to grow tall, and once threatening his life. The whole film takes the audience to peel back the cocoon, exploring whether he led argentina to compete for the World Cup football title in 2014, is he a born star or an acquired talent? How did this eventually create a football legend.
Ronaldo (UK)
Directed by: Anthony Wonke
Time: 2015
Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi, as the ultimate double in today's football, they will be compared at any time. Since there is Messi's movie, there will also be C Ronaldo's. The film intuitively shows that in his football years as a football player for about 20 years, he has felt too many failures and successes, and C Ronaldo is a person who pursues the ultimate success, and talent has always allowed him to continue such extremes. When Messi won the Golden Ball for four consecutive years, the pressure he was under seemed to be the whole weight of life.
The film ends with the 2015 Golden Globe Awards winning process, which is his supreme glory and joy, in fact, this is definitely the way he himself hopes, that is, to win, is the feeling of the king. In the film, he also mentioned that Messi inspired himself to do better, and he also inspired Messi.
Talented player, winner of life, good dad, lonely achiever? It is difficult to summarize Ronaldo in a definite sentence. In the film, the son asks him why he likes to play football, and C Luo whispers to his son, we don't know the answer. But some of his self-descriptions in the film may leave a lot of thoughts:
The more you give, the more you will be hurt after you fail. I like to be quiet and like to be alone.
Next Goal Fame (UK)
Directed by: Mike Brett / Steve Jamison
The American Samoa men's soccer team officially joined FIFA in 1997 and has never exceeded 190 in the world rankings. In 2011, the American Samoa Football Association, aided by the United States Football Association, hired Dutchman Thomas Rongen as head coach and began preparations for the 2014 World Cup Oceania Qualifiers.
Samoa is a palm-sized island, and the young people on the island either have nothing to do or choose to study and join the army. For the foreseeable future, the island will not have any greater victories. For those who play football, football is really a futile sport.
So why do they still play football?
In the film, Jaiyah, a beauty-loving player, says that because football is a beautiful sport.
Brilliant years
(Malaysia)
Director: Zhou Qingyuan
Time: 2016
The film tells the story of the Malaysian football team in the 70s, which built a stoic fighting spirit and unity through many difficulties, and wrote a glorious page in the history of football. Inspired by true stories, the film tells the story of how a multicultural football team overcomes the tests of personal hardship, team contradictions, and sudden loss of enthusiasm, and exercises extraordinary perseverance and cultivates team tacit understanding in one tribulation after another. This original Malaysian film directed by Chow Thanh Yuen is a heart-stirring inspirational story and a film dedicated to all Malaysians.
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