If, the whole country suffers from PTSD ......

This is a historical background, and in this context, today we recommend the film "Aboulela". This is an Algerian film, but also a response to the Algerian people after the tragic civil war, the soul of certain injuries, these injuries, where will the Algerians be tomorrow?

Aboulela" is about two childhood friends successfully selected as police officers, however, in a normal patrol, one partner faced a terrorist attack, and witnessed the death of colleagues in their arms he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. Another junior partner heard about it, he decided to use the vast desert to help his friend through the difficult situation, along the highway continued to move forward, the friend's injuries are getting worse and worse, before the eyes highlighted already can not tell whether it is a dream or reality.

This is a very psychedelic film, but at the same time repeatedly uses a variety of techniques to pull the audience back to reality. However, when reality and dreams meet, the audience is faced with the realistic style has been completely confused about where is reality, where is, and the dream. The core point of the film is thus created. Faced with a devastated country in the war, how will the people in the war react?

The film begins by showing us how the terrorist attack occurred, a very common terrorist attack, and for the Algerians in the flames of civil war, such an attack is too normal. And in the face of such a common attack, one of the protagonists of the film is unable to heal himself as if facing a threshold that cannot be crossed in life. A question arises here that can provoke thought.

No one is ever born to deal with volatile situations and everything that happens under them. Certainly, the reason why another police officer can face all this openly is nothing more than that he has adapted to the background of such a setting when war is raging and terrorist attacks will happen one after another without interruption. He is used to such an environment, and naturally will not be afraid of such environment. However, the other person in this film is not used to it, he still feels the fear of such a volatile environment. The conflict at the heart of the film is the result of this fear.

Shouldn't he be afraid? Of course, he should. Faced with the changing environment, the confusion of the future, and the current war, many people will choose to spend their lives numb, but there are always people who are awake, and not all of them can solve the conflict between themselves and the war. When the sober consciousness cannot accept the contradiction in front of them, people like the main character in this film who have the illusion of being wrong will arise. Are they wrong? They are not. What they did was just a normal reaction.

Some people can deal with their emotional problems so that they do not fluctuate too much in their hearts with the changes in the external environment, while others can not ignore the external environment to bring themselves some kind of unsettling circumstances, etc. so that both people need to exist, and when we will focus all our attention on these two people, but ignore one thing, Algeria was in the middle of a war.

This is all well explained. A country has to face the reactions of its population to the process of change in that country. The strong police officer provides feedback, and the police officer who is on the verge of a breakdown inside provides feedback as well. In a turbulent environment, not everyone can show their strong side, and when they can't adapt to the environment, their inner breakdown will be infinitely magnified, which will eventually have unpredictable consequences.

This film focuses on PTSD, but it is not an individual PTSD, but a common disease suffered by all the people in the whole country. When the people lose their vitality, the whole country will be dead and it is a difficult process to end the war and rebuild a happy home. But this difficult process is very necessary, no one wants to be in the war for a long time and can not face their own.

In the decades-long war, where is the country, where is the nation? The reason why this film is so obscure, like Lynch's Mulholland Drive, is that we cannot empathize with the people in the war in a long time of peace. How everything they face will progress, how their future will march, and so on. About them, we can't say or understand, the history of this country, those who have experienced it naturally know the root of the pain, the onlookers can only empathize with the individuals, but under the war of the whole country, who can feel the pain?