translate English to French: Indeed, I naively thought that a film could work for these donkeys which would die pitifully in front of the indifference of the people and of my own impotence. It is only two years later that I realized that I had seriously made a mistake and that my feelings had prevailed over the difference.
L'enquête rigoureuse qui suivit m'amena à la déduction que le sort actuel des ânes était le résultat d'une représentation millénaire complètement contradictoire, aucune bête ne portant aussi clairement les variations du regard de l'homme.