The global club sponsored a French comedy-drama film, in which an unlikely friendship develops between a wealthy quadriplegic (Francois Cluzet) and his Senegalese caretaker (Omar Sy), just released from prison.
Some points of discussion: Is the movie about servitude or the movie about two men (one white and one black) who received their fair share of humiliation? You have a guy from the projects and a man who needs help to go to the bathroom. One has little to no support in life—even his family gives up on him after he gets out of prison - and the other is stigmatized by his illness. They are both pariahs. “Symbolically speaking,” Daphnee Denis notes, “the image is striking. A French aristocrat in a wheelchair gets help from one of the “socially assisted people,” as a former minister under Sarkozy once described those who receive government benefits.White France is paralyzed; immigrant France has become its arms and legs.”
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