"Majid is perhaps showing that all his life, he and his people have
been considered as animals by the French."
I think this, and the reference to 'Sharia law' are a bit out of place
or excessive in reference to the film and to Majid, who doesn't seem
to have any fundamentalist leanings at all. It's a bit of a slur on
'the French' (and Majid would have been born French), isn't it,
despite the obvious injustice meted out to him and his parents in
childhood.
Guns, I'm informed, aren't all that easy to acquire in France; and the
knife is a theatrical gesture, for the camera, for the
camera-in-the-film, and for Auteuil 's character: he can easily 'hide'
the thing on his person and surprise Auteuil with it (not easy to do
this with a shotgun).
Henry Miller
On 4/12/06, piers smith <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Robert's observations tie in with Islamic
> regulations/norms concerning animal slaughter.
> Jugular/knife/clean death.
> Best,
> Piers
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> --- Richard Armstrong <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > Thanks to Henry, Robert, Patricia for their
> > comments. I agree, Henry,
> > Patricia, Majid's choice of death was particularly
> > visceral and awful. But I wonder
> > too, seen from my northern European perspective,
> > whether knives are a
> > peculiarly 'Mediterranean' way of death. (I am
> > determined to nail this down to a
> > specific culture!) I liked Robert's observation
> > about a method of slaughtering
> > livestock. Arabs are regarded as something akin to
> > animals in certain French
> > quarters, sadly.
> > Best,
> > Richard
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