Idems series Everyday impressions
Closed trash
A travel agent in Tokyo,
did not say to this Japanese family there was a wave of terrorism in Paris.
"The bomb and the feeling of being alive, while the others are dead."
So they came to France. Man, woman and child.
When they want to throw their soda cans, they land it on the trash can.
They do not understand why the trash can is closed.
"The bomb and the feeling of being alive, while the others are dead."
What is written on the trash is indecipherable.
They can not ask anyone, nobody could understand them.
But it does not bother them, it will be picked up.
But...
But passing this closed trash can, the man remembers words of his father.
Who told him the bomb.
And the feeling of being alive, while the other died.
At this moment...
His father's words take a weight they had never had.
The man does not understand why.
But it's important.
"The bomb and the feeling of being alive, while the others are dead."
The man will soon forget Eiffel Tower and Sacre Coeur.
He will remember the image of this closed trash can.
And his father's words :
"The bomb and the feeling of being alive, while the others are dead."
Director, text, picture, sound Benoît Labourdette