Since its publication on social networks, the video has gone viral. We see a father and daughter there somewhere in Syria. A four-year-old girl standing on the sofa in her father's arms. The latter films them both with his mobile phone. Very accomplices, they whisper as if they were preparing a bad joke. In reality it is an explosion which they await. There is bombing outside. The little girl's reaction to this muffled bang is ... a burst of laughter, cascading.
Make war a game
It was his father who taught him this reflex. Since his daughter had only known war, he decided to make it a game. In order not to traumatize her, he established this little ritual. This true story reminds us of a film, released just over 20 years ago, by Roberto Benigni, L a vie est belle .
A Syrian father makes his daughter believe that the bombs of Putin and Assad that rain on Idlib are part of a game and that we must laugh at each detonation. The laughter of Salwa, 3 years old, contains all the life and all the tears of the world. pic.twitter.com/rFuZrVoCRv
- Raphael Glucksmann (@ rglucks1) February 19, 2020Many internet users make the parallel with this film, which tells the story of a father sent to a concentration camp with his son. So that his little boy is not afraid, the character will transform the concentration camp into a summer camp, with a treasure hunt whose first prize would be a tank.
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