Les Neiges du Kilimandjaro

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Click here to show this review. Many people at my office went to see this film and came out of it with praise, for the humanity of the two main characters. This humanity is superhuman and unrealistic. Behind every victim and every criminal there is, after a crime, a trail of woe. When that trail of woe is greater for the criminal, the victim may have her say in favor of the criminal as to the punishment that the state is seeking. Anything beyond that is passing off some form of pathology as normality. In this movie, we are fed an extreme situation in which the survival of two children are at stake by the imprisonment of the criminal who is the older brother minding them, apparently, because of the dereliction of the mother. It is unbelievable that the state shall remain aloof of their conditions as it is to find an obligation for the victim to step to the plate. The less so since the criminal, met after the deed on two occasions by the victim, is acting like a total jerk toward one who had the fairness to put his name in the ballot box and draw himself out of a job.