Jean de Florette & Manon des Sources

This post is dedicated to all my Readers.

The advent of the sub-titles in the movies made things simpler and interesting in watching movies from other film industries.A good friend of mine told me that French,Iranian, Korean and Japanese movies will be good and watching them is worth spending the time.When i came home that evening , I searched for top ten French movies and selected this movie for download using mininova torrent. I waited until the download was over after about 2 days. That Friday , there was something that i can hope for. Since it is a two part movie, I decided to watch the first part that night and the second part on Saturday night.When the first part was over , I hurriedly reached to my lappy’s mouse pad to play the second part , not able to wait any longer.

The very first scene of the movie captured my attention like a pair of beautiful eyes and comforted me like the shadow of a fresh,green tree.This movie touches almost all aspects of Life. Dream,Love,Hope,Greediness,Sins,Frustration,Apathy,Ecstasy,Eternity,Serenity,Harmony – you can name any noun – you can at least find couple of scenes from the movie that suits the noun.

In ‘Jean de Florette’ , Jean’s Character and his perseverance in achieving his dream is very inspiring.Though he is a hunchback he works hard and sees every obstacle as an opportunity.Nobody ever loses until they quit.He is the perfect example.Ugolin and Papet shows How a man can be such a selfish animal, not having the basic courtesy for a fellow man.I questioned myself – If dreams of two men are conflicting – will both be selfish and ruin the harmony? ……..It even tells, How men are killed for ‘Water’.

“There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft….When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife’s right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.”, These words are from the book ‘The Kite Runner’. Theft is not just taking things of other people. Even if you do not take , If you deny the right / opportunity to posses the things that belongs to a person , It is theft. ‘Manon des Sources’ shows , How an entire Community and its people did injustice to Jean and his family and How the Community repents later!?

The apathetic moments of Papet , at the end of the movie , reflects the heart of a man who only needs forgiveness and death. What will a man need if he ever comes to know ,that He fought against his own son and grand daughter all through his life just to earn little more money and comfort his Soubeyran nephew.

Serenity & Harmony – “till the day I die”