It’s winter in France, the light is dull, the camera pans over a snowy wasteland and enters a massive construction of steel and glass that is open at the sides, stopping in front of the reproduction of a wooden ship. The structure that juts out over the upper deck is inscribed with the words ‘Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité’.
　　Med Hondo uses this tracking shot to establish the setting of his feature film West Indies ou les nègres marrons de la liberté (1979), while opening up a much larger space to the imagination at the same time. The ship turns out to be a most versatile stage for a grotesque narrative of colonialism, slavery and the struggle for independence in the French West Indies. Med Hondo explores his many themes in this limited space, whether it be the Middle Passage, marronage, abolition or the history of labour migration to France. The film marries an aesthetics of thrift with the flamboyance of a musical; different time periods glide into one other as elegantly as the geographical points of reference; and only occasionally do the actors’ visible exhalations, an alienation effect created by the cold, remind us that West Indies was not shot on Martinique. 国产剧西印度群岛全集高清观看由4m影院整理于网络，并免费提供西印度群岛高清剧照，西印度群岛百度云在线播放等资源，在线播放有酷播，腾讯视频，优酷视频，爱奇艺视频等多种在线播放模式，在播放不流畅的情况下可以尝试切换播放源。如果你喜欢这部片子，可以分享给你的亲朋好友一起免费观看。4m影院收集各类经典电影，是电影爱好者不二的网站选择！