Theatre
AMFM presents "Patient 115" by Jules françois Preira
2021, Senegal, 12 mins
English— Malick, a doctor and head of department at a hospital, should be happy, but he’s in his fifties, bitter and lonely. After refusing to authorize an operation on a seriously ill little boy due to his parents’ lack of means, Malick is involved in a car accident.
He ends up in a coma. There, he meets the Angel of Death, who reproaches him for his inhumanity and lack of compassion. Faced with the Angel of Death, Malick becomes angry, accusing him in turn of taking his mother away from him too soon,
Leaving him alone and on his own in this merciless world. Will Malick find the voice of redemption?
Français – Malick, médecin et chef de Service d’un l’hôpital devrait être heureux mais c’est un quinquagénaire, Aigri et solitaire. Après avoir refusé d’autoriser, l’opération d’un petit garçon, gravement malade, à cause du manque de Moyens de ses parents, Malick est victime d’un accident de voiture. Il se retrouve dans le coma. Là, il rencontre l’ange de la mort qui lui reproche son inhumanité et son Manque de compassion. Malick, face à l’Ange de la mort, se met en colère, il l’accuse à son tour de lui avoir pris sa mère trop tôt, Le laissant seul, livré à lui-même, dans ce monde impitoyable. Malick va-t-il trouver la voix de la rédemption ?
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