Indochine French Movie?

Question

Has anyone ever seen this film? I need help on my homework about this movie and I couldn't understand some of the parts they were saying in the film (since I'm not french).

- What is the significance of Camille killing a French soldier?

-There were several legends? The Red Princess? Everyone feeding Etienne?

-France, Indochine, the military, the traditionalist and a revolutionary, who is who?

-Freedom-How does this movie show freedom?

Merci :)

Answer 1

1. the significance was that she commited a crime; killing a french officer. and i like to think it's to show how much it angered her that the french killed anyone they wanted to and she was trying to stand up for that.

2. legends? i don't understand what you are trying to say. but basically, camille and jean baptiste's story was taken all over the world because it was so impacting. it became a play for actors to act.

3. i also don't understand this question. if you're trying to put names to these subjects, then in my opinion, the revolutionary would be tanh, france would be eliane, indochine would be camille and the military would be jean-baptiste.

4. freedom is depicted in many ways. first, the Vietnamese want freedom from the french. tanh has an amazing line in the movie, "obedience has made slaves out of us all." and he tries to fight for freedom. camille also gains freedom from her mom when she runs away. she learns more about her country; indochina. but it also shows that freedom can be short lived at times, like when the family that camille ran away with throught they were free, they end up getting slaughtered. etc.

i hope this helped a little. sorry if it was confusing. ><

i just watched the movie for my french class and i have a bunch of questions to answer too. -_- i had to ask a question on yahoo, cuz i didn't get them either.

best of luck!