But if the process of chasing freedom is to step away from a country full of iron curtains and persecution, breathe and think freely in forests and lakes, and leave footprints equivalent to the radius of the earth in nature, such as Lake Baikal, the Great Wall , Lhasa, these beautiful miracles can be seen in person. Whenever you are desperate, there will always be an excited cry that makes you stand or even run wildly, until you confirm that the dream in the distance is not a mirage, who will back down?
"The Way Back" describes such an extraordinary story of the pursuit of freedom. It is also a story of persistence and courage. It is like an oral legend. It may not really exist, but it can be understood as The most reasonable possibility at that time. We want to believe these stories not just because we don't want to break the principle of crying only for the real story, but more because we need it to be real. Every story that can interpret freedom, whether it is those under the Berlin Wall or the stories of the 38th parallel, makes us empathize across time and space.
To understand freedom, we must understand its opposite. The beautiful ideals that fascinate people's hearts have not descended from heaven on earth, but the Iron Curtain of half a century. In these kingdoms guided by noble but arbitrary ideals, the premise of freedom has turned into recognition and agreement overnight. What an absurd premise - so much so that fragile liberties are fundamentally abolished. Hayek once said that what makes a country hell is precisely the efforts of people to make it into heaven. In this century of ideology, everything is changing. Revolution and restoration, democracy and despotism are intertwined into the sonata of human history in the twentieth century. But one thing is certain, the light of human nature will never fade, and freedom is the eternal pursuit of human beings. In the long history of human beings, the time of freedom is just a moment of light. After many centuries, when the flowers of freedom bloom everywhere and become dull, people will surely be moved again by these legends of pursuing freedom. History will eventually reveal the truth and conscience - the Katyn massacre was hidden for an era, but not for a century; Solzhenitsyn's name became the conscience of the Soviet Union with his "Gulag Islands", and even human conscience. Half a century, half the world, the nightmare of mankind has remained in the 20th century, but the tyranny practiced in the name of freedom has far not stopped.
Under the blue sky, people who seek freedom come all the way. They are ragged and covered in trauma. Their never-ending footsteps are firmly on the horizon. Whether they are mountains, streams or deserts, their eyes are south. The road, their hearts are the other side of freedom. At the end of the film, Jonus (the hero of the film) did not stop in his footsteps. He kept walking, past the "victory of World War II", past the "Soviet invasion of Eastern Europe", past the "victory of Solidarity", After going through the "upheavals in Eastern Europe and the disintegration of the Soviet Union", he walked through history, and walked back to a free Poland. In front of the courtyard door that could not be forgotten for half a century, he took out the key, opened the door tremblingly, and met with the elderly. Their wives embrace each other and cry, this is the way to freedom and the way back.
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