“La fortresse” by Fernand Melgar is a Swiss documentary about those refugees, seeking for asylum in calm and prosperous Switzerland. The movie is about a camp or “registration center”, it’s residents – social workers who teach, treat, interview the refugees. And, of course, about hundreds of people from different continents. People whose motherland became incompatible with what we call “life”. Or people who just pretend to had been insulted, offended, hurt by their motherlands?
I’m not going to write about the movie, one can get the better idea clicking the movie official webpage
This movie, shown on central Russian TV, was discussed then by “specialists” and “critics” (the name of the program is “watch and discuss” – weekly TV show where they show different non-mainstream movies and then discuss it).
I was amazed by the naïve and, on the other hand, fierce criticism. On the whole, people from TV screen estimated the movie as “how the rich Europe humbles those poor people from third world”.
Crap! The film director, Mr. Melgar 9a fragment of interview with him was also shown in TV program) said himself that he wanted to show how social workers try to help people, how difficult it is to understand these people, who sometimes don’t speak French or English, to educate them, to help them to overcome the pain which they feel. Because many of them saw violence, killing. How difficult it is for every social worker to hear dozens of such terrible stories in a day, and to be calm and gather himself up to find some encouraging words for all these people.
Moreover, it is an open secret that many people just cheat to get European passport.
Anyway, that’s also out of topic today. I must say that 4 month of staying in Russia, my motherland, gave me the strange inspiration. Inspiration to open my eyes to the delusions and fears of my country, my nation and my nearest and dearest.
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Nobody thinks about war. But everybody is scared. The Middle East and north Africa developments scare Russian people when they watch TV. Why? Because they see “those wild black Muslims” from the screen. And our “wild black Muslims” are very near, not only in Nalchik but in every multistory.
All I’m going to highlight in this blog - and I already started doing it in previous posts - is devoted to this fear, raised by media manipulation, historical experience and society development in whole.
p.s. jokes and inoffensive post are promised as well =) Peace!
p.p.s photo of Nalchik is taken from http://www.elbrusoid.org/phorum/
