I really like movies that describe the Cold War period. I don’t know why. It may be because spies were rampant at that time, and the whole world was calm on the surface and rough in secret. This movie took place in France in the 1960s.
The assassination of De Gaulle, the film was doomed to fail from the beginning, so the only suspense is how to fail. The ability of the French police cannot be said to be inferior, but it is clear that the jackal demon is a taller. It’s a pity that he finally failed. He lost to luck. There is no way. For those successful people in history, luck always stands by their side at critical moments. The term luck is a bit vague and fatalistic. Okay. Change another name, accidentally. Marx believed that history has inherent inevitability, and accidentally cannot change history. Perhaps we can understand the big historical context in this way, but for specific historical events, we can clearly see that it was accidents, even extremely accidents, that changed the direction of history. For those successful in history, accidents are On their side, luck is also part of strength. In this film, the jackal is only lost to chance, and it is the kind of extreme chance, that is to say, from a certain point of view, the jackal succeeded.
By the way, De Gaulle, if Stalin and Churchill are outstanding figures among the leaders of various countries that emerged during World War II, then De Gaulle is definitely a great person, and he can be compared with Roosevelt and not inferior. More importantly, de Gaulle's performance after the war was more outstanding than before. The Chinese like to talk about strategy, and it can be divided into two forms: conspiracy and conspiracy, then de Gaulle is an outstanding representative of conspiracy. His de Gaulleism is absolutely open and majestic. Once the strategy is thrown out, you can't stop it if you want to stop it, because it's correct, and the right thing can't be stopped by honest means anyway, so it can only be assassinated. There are two kinds of people who cannot be solved unless they are assassinated. One is a person who is too powerful to resist, such as Hitler, but this kind of person can be solved by a stronger force after all. There is another kind of people who behave correctly and honestly. If they hold the power again, it is simply not enough to eliminate them by assassination. For example, Lincoln, such as Charles de Gaulle, so there is this movie.
Despite some anticlimactic, this movie is still worth watching.
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