First, let's talk about the political background of the film.
The UDI in the film has the same Irish accent as the Brosnan fan. As long as you look at it, you will know that it is an allusion to the Irish Republican Army, which is a paramilitary organization that seeks the independence of Northern Ireland. British history. As a Chinese, many people can't figure out why the British Empire has assimilated domestic regions so badly. Not to mention Ireland, even Scotland has split up all day long. This is actually the evil of the British Empire itself.
As early as the twelfth century, Britain began to conquer Ireland. The Tudor dynasty had established a preliminary ruling order. The Stuart dynasty began planned colonization in the fifteenth century. Large-scale colonial wars completely brought Ireland into rule. It stands to reason that after hundreds of years, it should have been integrated long ago, and the result has been split to this day. It has to be said that it is the shadow of the policy of the British Empire itself. All in all, apart from the different religious reasons (Irish people believe in Catholicism and the British believe in Protestant religion), the British Empire does not treat Irish people as human beings. The Great Famine in Ireland is a very typical example.
During the Great Irish Famine, at the mid-nineteenth century, when the British Empire was most powerful, all Irish land was occupied by the English nobility, just like the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty. At that time, there were about 1.5 million agricultural workers and more than three million self-employed farmers in England’s old master’s farms. Because the good land was occupied by the masters living in England to raise sheep, they fed these more than 4.5 million people. The Irish are purely potatoes grown on the ground with a little bit of scraps. And in order to increase the output of potatoes as much as possible, the Irish also invented a special method of growing potatoes, which is to build the ground into something like a pyramid, and then plant the potatoes one after another. As for the potato, if you have good biology, you should know that it is easy to accumulate virus degradation, especially if it is intensively planted like the Irish, so it must be detoxified after several generations of planting. But people didn't know it at the time, so under the accumulation, a thing called downy mildew swept across Ireland, and all the potato seedlings rotted away, almost no harvest. Originally, the Irish were struggling on the line of famine under the oppression of the British master, and the famine was directly caused.
However, my British Empire not only did not think about relief, but desperately blocked it. The queen only offered to donate 2,000 pounds, and also prevented the Ottoman Turkish Sultan who claimed to donate 10,000 pounds and let him donate only 1,000 pounds. In the end, the sultan couldn't stand it anymore. He donated several ships of food to Ireland beyond 1,000 pounds, and was intercepted by the British Imperial Navy. The most frightening thing is that throughout the Great Famine, Ireland continued to export food to England, which was simply cruel and inhumane. Therefore, this famine caused the Irish population to decrease by more than a quarter. If it weren't for the discovery of the New World and other European countries that could allow these Irish people to flee, I am afraid that these people would starve to death. But even so, hundreds of thousands of people died of starvation. Nowadays, a large part of Irish Americans are descendants of the escape. Kennedy's ancestors escaped from the desert at that time.
Since Britain has its own national conditions that do not regard Irish people as human beings, the Irish people all "grate" for my "moral government" in Britain, and desperately want to be independent. Therefore, taking advantage of the weak east wind of the British Empire after World War I, Ireland began the War of Independence, and the Irish Republican Army was also established at that time. On the one hand, they organized guerrilla warfare and strikes in Ireland; on the other hand, they carried out terrorist attacks in the United Kingdom. Now the methods used by these terrorists, such as roadside bombs and car bombs, are their ancestors. Two-pronged approach, Ireland finally became independent, but Britain still retained the rule of Northern Ireland. The famous Irish band Cranberry's masterpiece "Zombie" is singing the beginning of this independence war, the "Easter Uprising" in Dublin on April 24, 1916. However, Britain’s retention of the sovereignty of Northern Ireland made the Irish Republican Army dissatisfied with the "British-Irish Treaty". It continued to struggle and was suppressed by the British government. It became a semi-official and semi-underground military organization seeking the independence of Northern Ireland. They also launched the Belfast riot in 1969, leading to the arrest of a large number of heads of the Irish Republican Army in 1971 by the British government.
But these guys are not peaceful in prison. On the one hand, they engage in various kinds of protests, such as hunger strikes. On the other hand, because the British want to appease them, they are treated as political prisoners. They can not wear prison uniforms and do not participate in labor. Meet with outsiders and so on. Therefore, these people can not only conduct military training in prison, hold lectures to teach life experience of guerrilla warfare, but also remotely direct external struggles and retreat. Mandela’s prison testimony is actually the wisdom of this group of people. In 1976, the British government finally couldn't bear it, depriving them of their privileges, and then began a long struggle. Between 1976 and 1981, the Republican Army not only launched protests such as "filthy protests" and "blanket protests," but also assassinated 19 prison guards to force the British government to make concessions.
In 1980, they started a hunger strike. The British government under Margaret Thatcher's administration surface comforted, but nothing really changed. It was discovered that the heads of the Irish Republican Army who had been tricked started another hunger strike in 1981. This This hunger strike is the ancestor of the legendary "take turns hunger strike". Of course, these people weren’t the "Occupy Central" who forced the revolutionaries to take turns on a four-hour hunger strike, but the first one died on a hunger strike, the second one replaced the hunger strike, the second starved to death, and the third one died. Follow the hunger strike again. At this point, people can't help feeling that terrorists, "Occupy Central" and so on, are not as good as a crab. Moreover, the leader of the hunger strike, Bobby Sands, was elected as a British parliamentarian in the electoral district of Northern Ireland through a by-election just four days after the hunger strike began, which severely beat the British Empire in the face. But Mrs. Thatcher was unmoved. On the one hand, she sent someone to give glucose to these hunger strikers to hang herself, but she did not compromise on the other. The hunger strike that started on March 1 and ended on October 3, despite being forced to inject glucose, still starved to death ten people, but in exchange for some painless concessions. Mrs. Thatcher's iron heart gave her the nickname "Iron Lady".
In addition to this, there are other reasons. For example, when the cabinet minister threatened Comrade Hannes, I would send paratroopers if you didn’t do it. That was because the British used paratroopers to suppress the marching crowd during the "Bloody Sunday" incident in 1972. And the Irish Republican Army. There is also a peace treaty, which refers to the ceasefire treaty signed between the Irish Republican Army and the British government in 1998. Another abbreviated organization that killed Hannes’s wife’s brother actually alluded to the Ulster militia in reality. Because the Protestants in the six counties of Northern Ireland who were loyal to the British king and the Catholics who sought independence were evenly matched, the Protestants also did it. An organization similar to the Irish Republican Army, competing with the Irish Republican Army for terrorist attacks.
I didn't expect it to be so long, but when you see this, you should understand the groundbreaking political struggle of the Irish Republican Army and the love-hate entanglement with the British government.
Next, when the background is finished, let's talk about the political lines of the film. (The following will all use the Irish Republican Army to replace UDI in the film)
During the Vietnam War, Hannes played by Brosnan was a radical and extreme Irish Republican Army who had done many terrorist attacks and other tasks. His cousin, cousin, brother-in-law, and uncle were all killed by the British government. Like the sea. However, under the suppression of the British Empire, his comrades either sacrificed or were taken to prison. They became the group of people whom he asked the female cabinet minister to pardon at the beginning of the film, which mirrors the group of people who preached hunger strikes in prison in reality. . At this time, the revolution fell into a low ebb. In order to preserve the fire of the revolution, the Irish Republican Army pushed him out as the Deputy Minister of Northern Ireland to deal with the British government. In other words, he appeared as a moderate member of the Irish Republican Army to negotiate and negotiate. Protect the extreme Irish Republican Army. In order to maintain stability in the British Empire, on the one hand, he was appointed as a knight, and on the other hand, he signed a treaty to supervise the Irish Republican Army.
However, as time went by, Comrade Hannes did not want to lose high-ranking officials, and on the other hand, because of a change in his thinking, he believed that violent struggle was not desirable. In the future, he should fight peacefully and make the Republican Army organization more and more peaceful. This made the extremists in the organization think that he had made the mistake of right-leaning capitulationism, and decided to make big news under the covers of him, and to expand the struggle, so they united with the young and strong factions in the organization to return to their old business and launched a special attack on London. Terrorist attacks on financial institutions.
Comrade Hennessy, with the experience of a mature politician, on the one hand was very angry with the left-leaning blind comrade he did not know, he used the British government to pressure the organization, and on the other hand, on the condition of finding the murderer, he proposed to the British government to release politics. The conditions of the crime. Even in order to maintain his loyal image in the Republican circle, he only dared to send his nephew to secretly communicate with the British to maintain a tacit understanding, and to achieve a double-faced faction to the extreme.
People are harmful to tigers' hearts, and tigers are also hurtful. On the one hand, the organization has long prevented this guy from rebelling, and even Comrade Hannis’s lover who is riding a horse outside is arranged for him by the organization to monitor him. On the other hand, Hannes’s wife was with him because of blood feud with the British government. Back then, Comrade Hannes would help her get revenge. With the passage of time, his wife has clearly recognized the reality that Comrade Hannes was corrupted by power, and took the initiative to move closer to the organization and report on Comrade Hannes's movements. He sacrificed Hue personally and hooked up with Comrade Hannis’ confidant and her nephew, Xiao Xianrou, Sean, and informed the organization of key information.
However, this terrorist attack killed a Chinese girl and brought out her Chinese dad, a special soldier who has received professional training and fought in the Vietnam War, Comrade Guan Yuming. Since then, he has embarked on a legendary journey of petitioning and then using violence to control violence. The terrorist attacks of jungle warfare experts, advanced stalkers, and explosive madmen have defeated the Irish Republican Army, which started to engage in terrorist attacks. A is called Dad. How should I put it, Comrade Guan Yuming played the role of Wang Wenge in this, both in image and character, he has the axis and ignorance of Wang Wenge. It's just that Wang Wenge is a bit too embarrassed, and there is no need for Secretary Sha and Secretary Dakang to solve the matter.
The British government is not a fuel-efficient lamp, knowing that Hannes is a two-faced anti-loyalist. On the one hand, the female cabinet ministers and Comrade Hannes played Tai Chi on the release of political prisoners. On the other hand, they rushed to solve the case and used cutting-edge technology to quickly locate the suspect, the old friend of Hannes, and Comrade Mai, who was a gentle member of the committee. He then took advantage of Henness’s weakness of being reluctant to pay high officials and forced him to solve his old comrades personally. At the same time, he asked him to go to London to report on duty, publicly announced his betrayal of the organization, and even threatened him to send him if he didn’t do it. Paratroopers suppressed. This combination of punches caused Hannis to kneel immediately, showing his loyalty and even instructed his nephew to kill his wife before fleeing to the United States.
But in the end, the official career of Hannes who sacrificed everything to preserve was vanished in the photos taken by Comrade Guan Yuming. The irony is very strong, which shows that betraying the revolution will not end well.
The whole film is about how the shadows of the past affect the present, like people and organizations, which are very meaningful and really interesting.
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