Des Hommes et des Dieux: Is Empathy Always Good?

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       I am writing this review again, after having reviewed it several years ago, but lost the review.  This will be short, so I recommend seeing the film for yourselves, please.  It is beautiful, and tragic.  

Remember that sacrifice with the “après-gout de la manipulation…”  (“after-taste of manipulation…”), as you consider the question of whether their sacrifice helped build empathy or not, please.

  I saw it when I was living in Brittany, and thus had the opportunity to ask some neighbors about it:  

DesHommes

a common view turned out to be that:

“ils sont pas comment nous, et ils ne cetait pas prét d’avoir les mêmes droits.”

“they’re not like us, and they were not ready to have the same rights.”

  This was the response to my question of why not give the Algerians the same rights as French citizens in The Hexagon (continental France), which was…

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