Our world is changing. We French lost our war in Indochina because we failed to learn...
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Rene Gallimard:
Our world is changing. We French lost our war in Indochina because we failed to learn about the people we sought to lead. It's natural, therefore - correct, even - that they should resent us. How could they do otherwise, when we refused to treat them like fellow human beings?
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Our world is changing
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We French lost our war in Indochina
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because we failed to learn about the people we sought to lead
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It's natural therefore correct even
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that they should resent us
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How could they do otherwise
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when we refuse to treat them like fellow human beings
Clip duration: 41 seconds
Views: 124
Timestamp in movie: 00h 41m 24s
Uploaded: 29 November, 2022
Genres: drama, romance
Summary: In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling - but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.
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00:56 Don't you understand how degrading those images are to...
00:24 Well education has always been undervalued in the West...
00:30 I am out of words
00:09 And yes uh you said the Americans would succeed in Vietnam
00:11 The Americans always love to hear how welcome they are
00:21 Still playing the missionary are you Gallimard
00:25 Goddamn it
01:00 What I meant was you made me see the beauty of the story
00:22 Why in Beijing opera are womers roles traditionally played...
00:12 Ren whatever happens the days I spent with you
00:27 Comrade
00:35 When I left China everything fell apart
00:27 Know now that we embark on the most forbidden of loves
00:20 The Oriental woman when she's good
00:14 He was very responsive to my ancient Oriental ways of love
00:29 The Oriental woman has always held a certain fascination
00:14 Please come back
00:41 Our world is changing