Political machines and puppet lives.

Josefina 2022-04-22 07:01:39

"The Wind Blows the Wheat Waves" is the work of British director Ken Loach in 2006 and won the Palme d'Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. The film is set against the backdrop of the Irish War of Independence and Civil War in the 20th century. The War of Independence was to break away from British colonial rule. Finally, the United Kingdom agreed to sign the Irish Self-Government Act, allowing Ireland to become a free state within the British Empire. For this reason, one faction within Ireland accepted it, and one faction demanded complete independence, and the civil war began. In the film, the two brothers fought together in the War of Independence and experienced life and death. In the civil war, they belonged to these two different camps. In the end, the elder brother who supported the treaty personally executed the younger brother who was fighting for complete independence. Both brothers are small leaders in their respective camps, and they are steadfast. This steadfastness is about committing yourself to some great cause. But how much do they know about this great cause? For Ireland, falling into war was inevitable. Because they are full of confusion about life under the violent British rule, they use war to solve this confusion, thinking that if they devote themselves to a certain doctrine, a certain cause will have a direction in life. They crave doctrine, careers, and just want to find a ready-made answer to tell them how to live. The film is unusually objective and neutral, with a grim style. Barely any moral judgment. I think the attitude of war movies is the best, because the war itself is wrong, but there is no right or wrong for the people in the war. What makes this movie different from other war movies is its portrayal of people in war. When the male protagonist Damien was preparing to study medicine, he was dragged into the chicken coop and murdered by a friend who insisted on reporting his name in Irish instead of English under the surprise investigation of British Jue. Damien then decided to revolutionize. When I met the informer, I was a friend from a poor family who was very honest in the past. At a young age, I told him because of fear and utter ignorance of being deceived. Damien shot him. The first thing a revolution must learn is not doctrine and ideals, but cruelty and inhumanity that transcend emotion. They are not ignorant. Damien took the whistleblower's mother to his cemetery and climbed the mountain for several hours. His mother said nothing all the way. When he saw a bouquet of flowers that Damien put on the grave, he said: "You go, I don't want anymore." see you. They went back after winning the battle to find the British Army gunning down the unarmed old woman and Damien's girlfriend, burning down their houses and cutting their hair. People advised the old woman to move out, and the old woman stubbornly wanted to clean the chicken coop and sleep in the chicken coop. Later, the brothers turned against each other, and the older brother took people to the village to point guns at the old woman and Damien's girlfriend more brutally, which was exactly the same as what the British army did to them. This is ridiculous. Politics and beliefs are just a simple imitation of violence. They don't know what beliefs are and what people are. They just look from the outside. Imitation in the potential, this imitation is simply ridiculous. Later, Damien was arrested and wrote a paragraph: I wanted to enter this war, and I did it; and now I want to get out, but I can't. He hadn't read Tang poetry, and he didn't know that when Houmen entered the deep sea, Xiao Lang was a passerby from then on. He didn't even know that politics and war were not what he wanted to enter. "People" as a symbol in society is framed by what seems to be created by people, often they create our identities and give people labels; and often we are very happy to accept these labels. Politics has a particularly fascinating label because it also symbolizes power, and no matter how fascinating or different the political machine is, it will end up with the same face when it comes to power, pointing a gun at those old women. War is just a means for the political machine to gain hegemony. In the final analysis, it is power that chooses the object of the game, not people choosing to play or not to play the game. There is a saying in "The Watcher in the Rye": A man's maturity does not lie in his heroic death, but in living humbly for a great cause. I think this is very confusing and shameless. What is a great business? People devote themselves to all kinds of isms, all kinds of beliefs. These are the so-called "different ways and different aspirations", but what should be the relationship between people in essence? Is it because the innocent and ignorant good friend was forced to "snoticon" and had to shoot him in grief? Whistleblowers are victims of war, but they themselves are sacrifices to human inferiority. This grief is also full of pleasure. This pleasure made him show off in front of the mother of the deceased - to show that he was fighting for a noble cause and that he was great. People who devote themselves to a certain cause and doctrine always openly regard themselves as the machine of this cause and doctrine, and take pride in it. The greater the price, the more glorious it is. This is human ignorance. But what else can people say, except you go, I don't want to see you again. Later Damien died, and his girlfriend learned from his brother that he also said this. Because in the face of a group of puppet people who have been brainwashed by politics and ideology, a thousand words are not worth saying, only this "inhuman" word without love and hatred. Therefore, this non-war film is not only reflecting on war, but also on ordinary people in war, parts of the political machine. Soldiers like "Mutiny" are brainless sadists. The pleasure of abuse is a manifestation of human evil, and the reason why it is mindless is that the abuse is also imitated. It wasn't because he wanted to enter. "Man" as a symbol in society is framed by what it seems that people create, often they create our identities and give people labels; and often we are very happy to accept these labels. Politics has a particularly fascinating label because it also symbolizes power, and no matter how fascinating or different the political machine is, it will end up with the same face when it comes to power, pointing a gun at those old women. War is just a means for the political machine to gain hegemony. In the final analysis, it is power that chooses the object of the game, not people choosing to play or not to play the game. There is a saying in "The Watcher in the Rye": A man's maturity does not lie in his heroic death, but in living humbly for a great cause. I think this is very confusing and shameless. What is a great business? People devote themselves to all kinds of isms, all kinds of beliefs. These are the so-called "different ways and different aspirations", but what should be the relationship between people in essence? Is it because the innocent and ignorant good friend was forced to "snoticon" and had to shoot him in grief? Whistleblowers are victims of war, but they themselves are sacrifices to human inferiority. This grief is also full of pleasure. This pleasure made him show off in front of the mother of the deceased - to show that he was fighting for a noble cause and that he was great. People who devote themselves to a certain cause and doctrine always openly regard themselves as the machine of this cause and doctrine, and take pride in it. The greater the price, the more glorious it is. This is human ignorance. But what else can people say, except you go, I don't want to see you again. Later Damien died, and his girlfriend learned from his brother that he also said this. Because in the face of a group of puppet people who have been brainwashed by politics and ideology, a thousand words are not worth saying, only this "inhuman" word without love and hatred. Therefore, this non-war film is not only reflecting on war, but also on ordinary people in war, parts of the political machine. Soldiers like "Mutiny" are brainless sadists. The pleasure of abuse is a manifestation of human evil, and the reason why it is mindless is that the abuse is also imitated. It wasn't because he wanted to enter. "People" as a symbol in society is framed by what seems to be created by people, often they create our identities and give people labels; and often we are very happy to accept these labels. Politics has a particularly fascinating label because it also symbolizes power, and no matter how fascinating or different the political machine is, it will end up with the same face when it comes to power, pointing a gun at those old women. War is just a means for the political machine to gain hegemony. In the final analysis, it is power that chooses the object of the game, not people choosing to play or not to play the game. There is a saying in "The Watcher in the Rye": A man's maturity does not lie in his heroic death, but in living humbly for a great cause. I think this is very confusing and shameless. What is a great business? People devote themselves to all kinds of isms, all kinds of beliefs. These are the so-called "different ways and different aspirations", but what should be the relationship between people in essence? Is it because the innocent and ignorant good friend was forced to "snoticon" and had to shoot him in grief? Whistleblowers are victims of war, but they themselves are sacrifices to human inferiority. This grief is also full of pleasure. This pleasure made him show off in front of the mother of the deceased - to show that he was fighting for a noble cause and that he was great. People who devote themselves to a certain cause and doctrine always openly regard themselves as the machine of this cause and doctrine, and take pride in it. The greater the price, the more glorious it is. This is human ignorance. But what else can people say, except you go, I don't want to see you again. Later Damien died, and his girlfriend learned from his brother that he also said this. Because in the face of a group of puppet people who have been brainwashed by politics and ideology, a thousand words are not worth saying, only this "inhuman" word without love and hatred. Therefore, this non-war film is not only reflecting on war, but also on ordinary people in war, parts of the political machine. Soldiers like "Mutiny" are brainless sadists. The pleasure of abuse is a manifestation of human evil, and the reason why it is mindless is that the abuse is also imitated. choose the object of the game rather than people choosing to play or not to play the game. There is a saying in "The Watcher in the Rye": A man's maturity does not lie in his heroic death, but in living humbly for a great cause. I think this is very confusing and shameless. What is a great business? People devote themselves to all kinds of isms, all kinds of beliefs. These are the so-called "different ways and different aspirations", but what should be the relationship between people in essence? Is it because the innocent and ignorant good friend was forced to "snoticon" and had to shoot him in grief? Whistleblowers are victims of war, but they themselves are sacrifices to human inferiority. This grief is also full of pleasure. This pleasure made him show off in front of the mother of the deceased - to show that he was fighting for a noble cause and that he was great. People who devote themselves to a certain cause and doctrine always openly regard themselves as the machine of this cause and doctrine, and take pride in it. The greater the price, the more glorious it is. This is human ignorance. But what else can people say, except you go, I don't want to see you again. Later Damien died, and his girlfriend learned from his brother that he also said this. Because in the face of a group of puppet people who have been brainwashed by politics and ideology, a thousand words are not worth saying, only this "inhuman" word without love and hatred. Therefore, this non-war film is not only reflecting on war, but also on ordinary people in war, parts of the political machine. Soldiers like "Mutiny" are brainless sadists. The pleasure of abuse is a manifestation of human evil, and the reason why it is mindless is that the abuse is also imitated. choose the object of the game rather than people choosing to play or not to play the game. There is a saying in "The Watcher in the Rye": A man's maturity does not lie in his heroic death, but in living humbly for a great cause. I think this is very confusing and shameless. What is a great business? People devote themselves to all kinds of isms, all kinds of beliefs. These are the so-called "different ways and different aspirations", but what should be the relationship between people in essence? Is it because the innocent and ignorant good friend was forced to "snoticon" and had to shoot him in grief? Whistleblowers are victims of war, but they themselves are sacrifices to human inferiority. This grief is also full of pleasure. This pleasure made him show off in front of the mother of the deceased - to show that he was fighting for a noble cause and that he was great. People who devote themselves to a certain cause and doctrine always openly regard themselves as the machine of this cause and doctrine, and take pride in it. The greater the price, the more glorious it is. This is human ignorance. But what else can people say, except you go, I don't want to see you again. Later Damien died, and his girlfriend learned from his brother that he also said this. Because in the face of a group of puppet people who have been brainwashed by politics and ideology, a thousand words are not worth saying, only this "inhuman" word without love and hatred. Therefore, this non-war film is not only reflecting on war, but also on ordinary people in war, parts of the political machine. Soldiers like "Mutiny" are brainless sadists. The pleasure of abuse is a manifestation of human evil, and the reason why it is mindless is that the abuse is also imitated. talk. Because in the face of a group of puppet people who have been brainwashed by politics and ideology, a thousand words are not worth saying, only this "inhuman" word without love and hatred. Therefore, this non-war film is not only reflecting on war, but also on ordinary people in war, parts of the political machine. Soldiers like "Mutiny" are brainless sadists. The pleasure of abuse is a manifestation of human evil, and the reason why it is mindless is that the abuse is also imitated. talk. Because in the face of a group of puppet people who have been brainwashed by politics and ideology, a thousand words are not worth saying, only this "inhuman" word without love and hatred. Therefore, this non-war film is not only reflecting on war, but also on ordinary people in war, parts of the political machine. Soldiers like "Mutiny" are brainless sadists. The pleasure of abuse is a manifestation of human evil, and the reason why it is mindless is that the abuse is also imitated.

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  • Torrey 2022-03-23 09:02:22

    Think Land and Freedom. We must be overwhelmed by the complexity and brutality of politics. However, the film portrays the British army in such a bad way that it makes one wonder whether it is colonial rule or the lack of freedom under brutal rule that they cannot bear. Some people say that the compromise is just a change of the ruler's accent and flag colors, but are you sure that the result of the struggle is not just a change of the ruler's accent and flag colors?

  • Jaime 2022-04-24 07:01:15

    The fate of the cruel war is always similar, the filming is very stable, and the group scenes are well filmed, but I just can't like it, it feels very ordinary.

The Wind that Shakes the Barley quotes

  • Damien: It's easy to know what you are against, but quite another to know what you are for.

  • Finbar: [the IRA have just gunned down several Black and Tans] Mercenaries! That were paid to come over here to make us crawl, and to wipe us out. We've just sent a message to the British cabinet that will echo and reverbarate around the world! If they bring their savagery over here, we will meet it with a savagery of our own!