Does the movie tais toi meet Tolkien's standard of a fairy story? that is recovery ,escape and consolation? Europeans were often referred to as the standard bearers of neorealism as against hollywood high, thanks to weirdos like Godard, kidding ma what is cinema, said Bazin? Is Tais Toi a fairy tale. We would argue here that it is, Quentin teaches Ruby to recover the eyes of a child, (ou les.yeux d'un beau cheval) escape (on s'evade) and consolation (vogel is vanquished and the dream of caffe bar les deux amis becomes possible).
Tais Tois like Leon the profi also includes the big baddie of the patriarchy (Stansfield and Leon's father in law are consolidated into one bad guy, Vogel) and whereas Matilda is too small to rescue Leon from stansfield, Quentins huge bumbling bozo effect has the end result of defeating Vogel. The police bla bla more laterNeocities.