楽しい映画が大好きです。でも，時にはシリアスな映画にもふれて，この世界の厳しい現実に目を向けることの大切さも感じています。先日，ビデオで観た映画には，まさに目をそむけてはならない現実が描かれていました。「グッド・ライ～いちばん優しい嘘～」という映画です。
アフリカの北東部に位置するスーダンでは，1950年代から断続的に続く内戦により人々の生活は現在でも疲弊しきっているそうです。この映画は，1983年に起こった第二次内戦による難民たち3600人をアメリカが受け入れたという史実をもとに描かれています。
I love movies that are entertaining. However, I know it does good to me to see severe reality in this world by watching some movies serious. the other day, I saw a movie on video that tells us the very fact that we should know. The movie’s title was “Good Lie”.
The republic of the Sudan that is located in north eastern part of Africa has been in intermittent state of civil war since 1950s, so the lives of people in the country has been devastated. This movies’ scenario was based on the historical fact that the United States of America once accepted three thousand six hundred refugees from Sudan, who suffered from the second civil war started in 1983.
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スーダンに住む少年マメールは，貧しいながらも家族とともに平穏な日常を送っていました。しかし，内戦の嵐は彼の住む村にも吹き荒れ，全てを破壊してしまいます。銃弾が飛び交う中，マメールはまず両親を失い，逃げていく中で兄弟を一人，また一人と失っていきます。そして，自分の不注意から，頼りにしていた兄が兵士に連れ去られることになってしまいます。生き残った妹や仲間たちとさらに１２００ｋｍ以上も歩き通し，ようやくたどり着いた難民キャンプで13年を過ごした彼らはアメリカに行くことに・・・。
Mamere who was a boy living in Sudan spent his peaceful daily life with his family, although they were in poverty. But the civil war stormed their village and demolished everything. In the line of fire, Mamere lost his parents first, then also lost his brothers one by one. Plus, he ended up letting his brother who he relied on be captured by soldiers by his own careless mistake. He walked through about over one thousand and two hundred kilo meters with his friends and a sister left alive to arrive a refugee camp. They then spent their lives there for thirteen years, after that they somehow decided to go to the United States….
イギリスのEU離脱，そしてトランプが当選した大統領選で浮き彫りになったのは，まさに難民の受け入れ問題でした。しかし，自分はスーダンのことも，アメリカが大規模な難民を受け入れた時期があったことも全く知りませんでした。この映画のキャストの中には実際にスーダンからの難民，それも少年兵だった方もいるようです。途中からずっと泣きながら観ていました。結末も含め，とてもいい映画です。
What has been revealed while the Great Britain left EU or Donald Trump won the presidential election was exactly the issue of accepting refugees. However, I didn’t know about the situation of Sudan or the fact that the U.S. accepted a huge number of refugees at all. It seems that some of the casts in this movies were real refugees and some of them were child soldiers. I cried a lot while I saw the movie. I like the ending of this movie and I’m sure this is a movie worth seeing.
