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Pour l'amour de Dieu (2006)
Great film with a topic which need to be spoken about
Pour L'amour de Dieu has fortunately been translated into Dutch for the Dutch, Belgium and other markets. This I why its easier to write for the non French natives, I still remember the film quite well even though this review is written 5 years after I have last seen it. Its basically a love store between a boy and a girl in Paris. At first all goes well but then the boy gets sucked into a more conservative form of the Islam and the girl has the choice to also follow this path or he will leave her. I will not tell to much about the tragic end of the film. Let me finish by telling this film will move you,the storyline is interesting and there is some strong acting by all main characters. Bon plaisir!
White Justice (1978)
Legal pluralism and Inuit law
The film, which is more of a documentary, unfortunately is rather forgotten. It addresses some important issues and is especially interesting for lawyers, anthropologists and people alike. Take for example enforcement of our western law system on indigenous people, who have often have a rather different set of traditional and customary rules. The movie also tackles mistranslation which can occur when we try to explain our legal values to the local Inuit. In the film, for a trial the defense gets two hours in total to prepare for a case, ditto for the prosecutionar.
It's difficult to explain the Inuit people why so little time is available for, in many cases, very important decisions. There are many examples in the film where the Canadian government shows a serious lack of consideration in taking the local traditions of dealing with crime serious. The Canadian judge in the film states it like this: 'modern ways are here, you can't go back to the past'. Is that the case or are we just being ignorant? The rather low quality of the editing, color, etc. is a bit of a shame. The message the film wishes to address still makes it interesting and important nevertheless.