The movie "Illegal Entry": My whole life is just to cross the ocean to see you

Director: Philippe Riore

Starring: Vincent Linton/Fela Ayeverdi/Audrey Dana/Fela Aye Verdi

Role: Bilal (Bilal, 17-year-old Iraqi Kurdish refugee)

Simon (Simon, middle-aged swimming coach)

Mina , British expatriate from Iraq)

Marion (Marion, middle school teacher)

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Language: French + English

This is a simple movie that can touch your heart directly. The director's lens focuses on a group of ordinary and real people

Even the actors are ordinary non-professional actors. I didn't know it was so Such a good movie, why hasn’t it ushered in the spring of the film industry? Perhaps in this era where everything is fast, we have no time to pay attention to the still water and clear spring around us. The calm plot was like a boulder, causing ripples in my heart that had been silent for a long time.

On the surface, the movie seems to touch on the issue of illegal immigration that is of public concern. In fact, it is an out-and-out love movie. Before telling the content, let me briefly introduce the protagonist of the movie:

The first one is Bilal, the noble soul that our entire movie wants to celebrate

There is no doubt that he He is the male protagonist of this movie, a 17-year-old football-loving boy in the rainy season, an Iraqi Kurd, and his family situation is not introduced in detail in the film. In order to go to the UK to find the girl he likes, he walked 4,000 kilometers from Kurdish to Calais, France. When he arrived in Calais, France, he was treated as a refugee and was ostracized everywhere. Finally, he swam for several hours from Calais, France to the English Channel, and died in the last 800 meters. In the sea. When you see the ending, you will shed silent tears and admiration, and you can't help but admire the unfairness of fate.

The second one is Simone, a middle-aged swimming coach who still has dreams.

A former swimming champion in Calais, France, is now an ordinary swimmer. As a coach. Wife Marion.

If every thousand-mile horse has its own Bole, then Pilar was lucky enough to find Simon, his own Bole. Under Simon's calm expression, in his quiet life, what we see is the ordinary life of ordinary people, and we cannot see the still burning dream hidden in his heart. He once had dreams, and he still has dreams.

The third one is Simon's compassionate wife Marion

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Marion is a middle school teacher. A compassionate woman.

At that time, all French people were wary and repulsive towards these refugees, and would not allow them to go shopping in supermarkets. The police often drove them away and did not allow them to wander around the city, so these refugees had to live in In the jungle. One time, Marion happened to encounter a staff member at the entrance of a supermarket who refused to allow these refugees to go in for shopping. She said to the staff member righteously, "Why don't you let them in? Don't they give you money? They go in and hinder you..." . . . "It can be seen that Marion is a very caring person.

The fourth place is the beautiful and sad goddess Mina of Pilar

The heroine appears no more times in the entire movie. Not much, but it stunned the screen when it appeared, it was beautiful.

There is no detailed introduction in the movie about how they met the male protagonist, including why they live in the UK. I guessed that Mina's family immigrated to the UK. The relationship between Mina and Pilar is like the ancient Chinese parents who ordered a matchmaker. In the end, the family had no choice but to marry her to one of their cousins.

I won’t introduce the other actors one by one, but will introduce a few main character clues.

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The movie tells the story of the butterfly effect caused by the Iraq War, which caused a group of Kurds who originally lived a quiet and simple life to have an inexplicable interest in the paradise land of "Britain". Infinite yearning. For these refugees, Britain may be the poetry and distance in their imaginations, but for Pilar among all the refugees, Britain is a place where he has been waiting for his lover (Mina) day and night, and all poems are meters. Na, there is only Mina in all the distances.

Pilar and Mina were originally in love with each other, but they were blocked by their family members in every possible way: they were not allowed to talk on the phone, not allowed to meet, and they were excluded from any information about Pilar and so on !The beginning of the movie is when Pilar called Mina. Mina was not at home and was picked up by Mina's brother. Afraid of being discovered by her parents, Mina's brother asked Pilar to call his cell phone to find Mina later, but He tried several times to find Mina on the phone, but failed to contact her for various reasons, which inspired Pilar to engage in various smuggling behaviors to find Mina.

He walked 4,000 kilometers to Calais, France (Calais, France is located in northern France, across the sea from the United Kingdom). After arriving in Calais, he met a friend who was preparing to smuggle to the United Kingdom in a large truck. So he joined his friend's truck smuggling plan. The difficulty with taking a truck is that at every stop someone will check the carbon dioxide level in the cabin, so they have to cover their heads with a plastic bag to prevent them from exhaling oxygen. This is worse than Lar's Achilles' heel. One refugee died of lack of oxygen in the truck. During the security check, Pilar couldn't hold on anymore. All the refugees failed to smuggle in and entered the police station. He was not convicted of a crime because he was a minor. All the refugees began to hate Pilar, and one refugee even often punched and kicked Pilar.

One time, Pilar was walking along the Calais coast in frustration. He saw a ship bound for England, so he fantasized about swimming to a place where the cruise ship was bound and smuggling to England with the cruise ship. From then on, he began his journey of learning to swim day and night. He met his swimming teacher Simon in the swimming pool.

Simon saw him practicing swimming very hard and thought he was a boy with great swimming talent. He was moved by his perseverance and asked him why he worked so hard to learn to swim. At first, he did not tell Simon His thoughts, but Simon still saw that he wanted to swim across the strait. Gradually, Simon began to love this ambitious young man, often letting him stay at his house and cooking for him. Gradually, Pilar also let go of his grudge and regarded Simon as his friend and even relative. And told him the purpose of learning swimming. Simon was moved by their loyal love and agreed with his idea of ??helping him swim to England. He gave him a swimsuit and asked him to use his mobile phone to call Mina (but he only got through once ), and even gave Pilar the ring he gave to Marion and asked him to give it to Mina.

Once Simon's gold medal was stolen, and he thought it was Pilar who stole it. Pilar was so sad that he ran out of the door. Simon realized his mistake and chased him back in the corridor. Neighbors heard the noise and came out to see what was going on, and found that Simon was actually staying overnight with the refugees, which was intolerable to the French who extremely rejected these refugees. So the neighbor called the police station to report the situation. Simon and even many French people did not know that Article L622-1 of their country's criminal code stipulates that if you help "illegal immigrants", even if you just take them in for a meal or stay for a night, Late is also illegal. The penalty will be 5 years in prison. The police came to the door in the early morning, just as Pilar had already started swimming to the strait in order not to cause trouble to Simon. So the police didn't have enough evidence. After the police left, when Simon closed the door, he saw the word "welcome" printed on the doormat of his neighbor. (character), but he reported himself to the police station because he stayed with refugees, which tells us a lot about the truth and helplessness in life.

The farewell between Simon and Pilar is an eternal farewell. Pilar is like an elegant dolphin, searching for him hungry and cold in the cold sea water and the rough waves. Belong to your own shore. But fate gave him a tragedy, and also gave the entire movie a tragedy. He was buried in the sea in the last 800 years, unable to see his beloved girl, and his life came to an end at 17. Such an ending has to be allowed. The audience was heartbroken.

The director did not leave the ending to the final tragedy. The last part is that Simon went to England to find Mina and gave the ring left by Pilar to Mina, but Mina refused. , she said: "I will get married in 10 days." Simon then gets a call from his wife, who tells him the police are taking him to jail. And he told her: he found her lost ring, and he would go back.

Tolstoy once said a famous saying in the novel "Anna Karenina": "Happy families are always similar, and unhappy families are each unhappy in their own way." I never understood why it became a "word of wisdom". But now I really feel the subtlety of this sentence. Everyone’s youth has the same noun, everyone’s destiny has the same noun, everyone’s family has the same noun, but everyone experiences different experiences. life of destiny.

Text: Su Tang August, pictures taken from his own public account