Le Salaire de la Peur aka Wages of Fear written by Georges Aranud and Henri Georges Clouzot, directed by the latter was The 1953 Winner of The Grand Prize of the Festival de Cannes, The Golden Berlin Bear, The BAFTA for Best Film from any source, and it is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Of All Time – you find thousands of notes on films from The NYT 1,000 and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel where my macaws are exuberant

 

Le Salaire de la Peur aka Wages of Fear written by Georges Aranud and Henri Georges Clouzot, directed by the latter was The 1953 Winner of The Grand Prize of the Festival de Cannes, The Golden Berlin Bear, The BAFTA for Best Film from any source, and it is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Of All Time – you find thousands of notes on films from The NYT 1,000 and other web pages on my blog   https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel where my macaws are exuberant

 

10 out of 10

 

Martin Seligman https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/from-book-that-opened-way-for-positive.html is the co-founder of Positive Psychology, it is interesting that he came up with the idea as he was grumpy, a bit abrasive with his daughter, then he realized too much attention had been given to the negative side

 

He has listed the character strengths and you find them on his site, one of them is courage, in fact, there are a few groups: courage, humanity, transcendence, temperance, justice, wisdom, and then they each subdivide: Wages of Fear seems to be mainly about Courage, though it is also about resilience, humanity, and the other traits

I have seen this film again, last night, just as Spain started its match against Belgium, I remember seeing it when I was a teenager, the feature is now 73 years old, and being shaken by the tension, the remarkable plot, which is less overwhelming now, when they have these better techniques to suggest impending calamity

 

Yves Montand https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/jean-de-florette-by-marcel-pagnol-and.html was one of the greatest thespians of all time, in Salaire de la Peur he has the leading role of Mario Livi, a rather dishonorable individual, to begin with, he is loitering in this destitute village in South America, where there are no jobs…

Hence, they have to take Wages of Fear; he is very mean to this young woman, Linda, though his defenders would insist that the time, context made it banal, these macho men would all act like that, indeed, the owner of this bar where Linda worked may have forced her into sex work, aside from abusing her himself

 

Mister Jo arrives in this godforsaken place, and he projects of image of strength, notwithstanding the fact that he has almost no money – the whole picture is mostly scary, but there are some surreal scenes, with that disintegrating taxi, going though small ponds of mud, the multitude of beggars, homeless, unemployed people

‘Where there is oil, the Americans are nearby’ https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-trump-tapes-by-bob-woodward-author.html and there is this camp, associated with fossil fuels, they have to get nitroglycerine to some extraction point, where they have a big fire, and increasing losses, ergo this special mission

 

They need to get four drivers, for two trucks, one is there in case the other explodes, and the Wages are incredible, for the time and place, two thousand dollars, only the danger is overwhelming , the nitroglycerine may blow up at any movement, this is an exceptional motion picture, made me think of Aristotle https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-100-most-influent-philosophers-of.html 

 

 

 

 

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