After watching this film, my always clear memory became very vague, and I didn't remember much of the characters' names, only a few scenes. At the beginning of the film, there is a sunny boy, the calm on the surface can hardly hide the youthful restlessness in the heart, although there is a little bit of German sternness. The male protagonist should not be regarded as a rebellious teenager. To the slap in the face and the sharp gaze from his father, the male protagonist did not resist radically. He just made an instinctive choice for what he thought was the right path in life, as far as simple choices are concerned. , he did not have any fault, he could not jump out of the big wheel of the times, he could only be dragged into the abyss slowly.
At the entrance ceremony, after the principal finished speaking, the boys sang the national anthem in unison, the military salute, and shouted long live Sittler. The exciting tone of Xiaobolan was slowly brought up, and the whole background of the story was slowly unfolded. At this point, I started the desertion again, and suddenly I remembered the same exciting era in the early days of the Cultural Revolution, and the students who wore red armbands were not boys or girls. , the only difference is that they aimed their guns at aliens, while we put the machete on our own necks.
We sometimes don't say how unfortunate they are, even in such a dark and bloody age. As far as a simple person is concerned, it is not so complicated. As long as the spirit is sustenance, they will be full of happiness, no matter whether their sustenance is good or bad, gods or demons. Dependence and belonging are always so easy to make us lose the distinction between good and evil. If we were in it, we might not be able to help ourselves. This fanatical cultism is not a religion. When the power of this religion accumulates to a certain extent, it will lose control, like a vortex in a sea storm, and all rational human nature will be destroyed. The so-called extreme joy produces sadness, and things that are too extreme can never last long. When the dream of worship is shattered, there will only be two endings, either the end of life or the death of spirit. When the male protagonist walks out of the school gate and walks in the vast sea of snow, he is still strong and young, but his spirit is dying. Therefore, in such a deep tone, the male protagonist seems to have stepped out of the real dilemma, but always bears the shackles of the spirit.
When the whole era is tragic, the occasional personal encounter, whether sad or happy, seems pale and powerless. Lei Shuyan said in a small grass poem: The days of ignorance are dirtier than pigs. No matter how unique we are, in the face of history, we will always bear the scars of tragedy, because we are a part of it. Maybe this is the tone of history, this is the taste of existence.
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