The Man Who Planted Trees

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AWR30 Film Review #3: The Man Who Planted Trees By Fiona Brui-Robey Wednesday 3rd of December, 2008 Who planted those trees?! A simple man, a single man, a lonely shepherd of profound dignity. By only one man’s will, hundreds of thousands of trees grew in the deep regions, in the rocky dry deserted mountains’ of the South of France. Through a little bewitching story animated in crayon drawings we travel with the narrator who tells us his adventures as he finds himself in the company of this shepherd. High up in the Alps, vacant loneliness, and dark colours and strong evil winds push us, the audience, to shiver with despair. Life does not grow, it seems to regress, the water is missing and our narrator is dying of thirst. This shepherd that he meets has a silent story of his own. He has lost his beloved family and so lives on by himself with a single pet as a constant companion. He goes on about his business; with careful patience he plants little seeds of hope in the hard dark soil. Years later our adventurer comes back intrigued by this silent man. What he sees is no longer a lifeless place. The idea of planting trees is to plant hope in people’s hearts. This is the power of a single human life, with no selfish thought but rather for his own and others innocent happiness. For me it was spectacular, it drew me in, I hoped for this man who planted trees, for this desolate place. Trees are a symbol of rebirth and there is no evil great enough that can stop the spreading of that hope. If one hand can do miracles, then there is no need to wait for God to do everything. WE can ourselves come forth in different way, unselfishly with goodwill in our hearts and seeds in our hands, and we can spread and obtain miracles wherever, whenever. This man who planted trees bore a lot of pain inside of him, but he was able to transform this pain into a good substance. The
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