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why did he do that (spoilers)


Why did he destroy the tapes at the end? I thought the whole point in recording the gypsies was so he could take the tapes to Paris and make them famous?? And get money and respect for them, since the locals treated them so badly. This part did not make sense to me...

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When Stephane got there he was more of a tourist/business man, interested in recording and documenting instead of really paying attention and learning about the culture of those people. The scene where he stops Sabina from dancing and shouting while he was recording that guy singing shows how glib he was about what was really going on. But after living with them and falling in love with their culture and their outlook on life he realized the tapes would never do them justice, that to realize the greatness of their music one had to feel it, and a recording wasn't enough. If you noticed, none of the Roma recoreded themselves or other Roma people singing, because to them music was not to be listened but to be lived.

So, destroying the tapes and dancing around them the way the Roma did when they paid their respects at the grave of a deceased showed he truly understood them and their passion for living, that in a way he was becoming one of them.

For the same reason I sometimes laugh at some tourists who go around obsessively with their cameras in hand, missing half of waht's going on around them, more busy immortalizing the moment in a bunch of photos, than actually living it and remembering everything with every fiber of their being.



"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
Oscar Wilde

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Perfect reply.

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All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

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I couldn't agree more with this poster. I realize this was typed eight years ago, but it applies even more so today and reminds me of something that I've noticed. If you take a look at Google maps and use the street view where you can actually appear on a street as if you're really there, you'll notice something about tourists. Example: if you zoom in on street view at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, you'll see the majority of tourists looking at their phones or posing for the perfect selfies. What are these people doing? Are they out of their minds? If I ever was lucky enough to visit such a place, I don't think I'd even carry my phone. What for? To be surrounding by such history & beauty would be so overwhelming! People waste so much time with their devices instead of living their lives and remembering the moment. To me, it is sad!

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