La Vie Est Belle was such a thought
provoking film for me. I think Kourou is just like the rest of us. We all have
dreams and interests that drive us out into the world to go after what we want
in this life. We make plans to make our dreams come true and when something
goes awry, we treat it as a minor bump in the road, but we press on. I see
Kourou doing all of that in this film. His goal is to make it to the city to be
a musician, but love and poverty get in his way. But to what extent will we go
to make our dreams come true? How big of a role do the people with whom we
associate the most play in our lives? We see Kourou at his lowest point when he
tries to kill himself over Kabibi. That threw me for a loop because it kind of
went against the character Kourou carried throughout the entire film. He’d been
shut down a lot of times, and always managed to find a way back on track. It
seemed like no one in the city thought he could play music, but he continued to
play. I see this movie as a reminder that my worldly desires will fail me and
that I need to turn to something greater than this world, something constant,
in order to be able to resist the trials and tribulations of this broken earth.
Life is rosy. Life is a blessing.
Life is unpredictable. Life is a mess. Life is a plethora of different events
and different people and different places… Life is unique. Your life is
different from my life and everyone else’s life. I think that’s why they call
it “rosy.” It’s beautiful and it makes me happy.
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