United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Behind this majestic name, how much suffering is contained.
Scotland's suffering is seen in Braveheart. In previous years, IRA attacks were still heard in the news from time to time.
Resistance groups or terrorists, those who are labelled, "The Wind Blows the Rice Wave" is telling their story.
Where there is oppression, there is resistance. These words are not just talking about themselves. Humans are really strange animals, he is smart enough to want to enslave some animals and lives and use them as tools. He is also smart enough to voluntarily become someone else's slave—just to keep a low profile, or to acknowledge the evolutionary theory of power, survival of the fittest.
Those who have no strength will eventually be eliminated. But he would rather die standing than live on his knees: it's a big deal, and you won't feel bad if I die.
Those who are still alive either continue to kneel or resist.
Damian and Teddy, two brothers. embarked on this road.
Damian, a college student, will have a decent job as a doctor in London. But he saw his countrymen being enslaved at will by the English and rebelled. The reason for his resistance is not direct. He has many paths to take. Just like the rich people who are dissatisfied with the country, they can go to other countries to buy a green card, learn a beautiful accent and dress up as Chinese, and then break away from this nation.
A person can secede from his own country and nation, but can a nation?
Every nation in the world has its glorious pillar and foundation of existence. Those who strive for the dignity of the nation are the inextinguishable soul of the nation.
Unlike the bookish Damien, Teddy was a practitioner early on. It was also under the influence of him and Dan and others that Damien joined the Irish Republican Party.
After a series of resistance movements, England signed a contract with Ireland and England withdrew. But that did not mean freedom came, and divisions arose within the rebel group. The Teddy faction advocates consolidating the achievements of the revolution and recognizing the agreement with England, while Damien believes that recognizing the agreement means changing the goal of his consistent struggle and betraying his original oath to join the Republican Party.
The former comrades gradually parted ways, and even met with each other.
The Brits were smart - and they were dealing with Scotland at the time - to clear up the rebellion with a pseudo-government and let the Irish beat the Irish.
Those politicians can go back on their word, but revolutionaries are not politicians, they have always kept their promises at that time.
The fighting turned into a civil war between the government and those who continued to resist.
Teddy, backed by the wealthy and the English government, is well-equipped, so Damien's rebellion ultimately fails.
On the last night, Teddy asks Damien to name the members of the group and the addresses of the weapons.
Damian replied: "I shot Chris Raleigh (the young man who sold them) in the heart, you know why? Because I don't sell out gays."
Ironically, when Teddy was betrayed and captured by Chris Reilly, he was tortured and never named his partner. At this moment, history played the same joke on him.
In Teddy's heart, he didn't want to do this either. He also wanted to live a peaceful life. He didn't want to wear this uniform, look at the faces of the British, do things, and suppress his compatriots. But he couldn't help it. He knew that his strength was not enough to resist the mighty England. At this moment, he could only swallow his voice. When he was strong, he would immediately tear up the agreement...
But Damien interrupted him, and he asked Teddy: "Do you want to What do you want?"
Teddy didn't understand, he just answered his immediate purpose: the address of the weapon and the organization, and then pardoned Damien, let him go home, continue his studies, and live in peace...
Teddy never understood, even if he became stronger in the future, stronger than England, and could take revenge in return, when he enslaved England, he still didn't understand.
As Dan once and Damien said in his last words: "It's easy to know what you're against, but it's hard to know what you're after."
Damien figured it out before he died, as Wallace called out before his death in Braveheart:
Freedom!
Freedom does not mean the master's freedom. Such freedom is still shrouded in the master-slave dialectics, and only the master's freedom is. Slaves will always be slaves and slaves. If we still aim to pursue the freedom of the subject and think that freedom is obtained from other people’s hands, then what we are doing is nothing more than admitting the essence of illusion in the critique of illusion. The batter is still baked.
The rice waves are still swayed by the blowing wind.
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