Success (slight spoilers)


The film ends with a poor man teaching for free to other poor people, usually migrants. He teaches them the word success and how it likens to succeed. He then teaches about a useful insect and one of his class suggests a cockroach!

The film features some of those that society deems successful - judges, supermarket managers and farmers amongst others. Yet some of what they have to offer seems petty and mean. Success has not made them generous with their bounty. Unlike Saloman and the man who hosts him, or the man we meet teaching migrants to read and write in French.

A bird sings and the mountain's silence deepens.

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