Nan Fengchuang recently wrote an article "Selected Women Living Alone" about the potential dangers faced by women living alone in urban life, such as traveling in the dark, which is full of dangers. Thinking that ancient women were selected for sacrifice, today, in conjunction with Kurosawa Akira's movie "Warlords", I will talk about the plight of women who were sacrificed.
"Warring States Heroes" tells the story of the princess of Qiuyue Kingdom who was escorted back to the country by the dynasty general and two rascals. It is said that this film inspired Lucas's "Star Wars", the memory of American times. When I first finished watching it, I just thought it was a standard commercial film, and Kurosawa took the routines he was used to in a perfect way. Later, the more I thought about it, the more I felt that there were some profound things that I had overlooked. Kurosawa, who wanted to heal the sick, would not just make a good-looking adventure film, it was too simple for him.
In the story, the general played by Toshiro Mifune had to make his sister impersonate the princess and hand her over to the enemy country in order to cover the princess's return. The younger sister was killed the next day. The princess angrily denounced the general's ruthlessness.
She said: "How can you let her sacrifice for me? She is your sister."
"She sacrificed for the kingdom, she must be very happy."
"Nonsense, if I must hate the princess."
The princess went out angrily, and the general only revealed the truth at this time.
"My sister is not a sacrifice, the princess is the sacrifice of this kingdom."
1. The sacred dynasty sacrifice
Someone once asked me such a difficult problem: "If you have a choice, you can sacrifice one, and you can get back world peace. Would you like to do it?"
When I was young and vigorous, I didn't need to doubt my instinct to say: "I am willing."
I am willing to sacrifice for the kingdom and sacrifice my happy family. What kind of fearless spirit is this.
But as I grow older, I am more aware of the paradox of this issue.
The world peace that needs to be exchanged for personal sacrifices is definitely not true peace. How can a world accept the voluntary sacrifices of the voters in a grandiose way?
The logic behind this is the relationship between little love and big love. Sacrifice my little love to achieve the world's great love.
But once love is divided into size, Xiao Ai must be prepared to sacrifice.
The end of this question is not world peace, but the sacrifice of one little love, one individual being sacrificed, there is no living person in the world, and the world will naturally be peaceful.
2. The real sacrifice
The sister's sacrifice was forced, perhaps necessary at that time. But don't give her noble excuses. This is a blindness to the suffering of the sacrificed, a kind of exoneration for oneself.
But the princess is the one who really sacrificed. "The country is broken by mountains and rivers, and the city has deep grass and trees." She was born with the title of dynasty. She was the princess of the end of the dynasty. Many people sacrificed to protect her, but it was her who sacrificed to this country.
In peaceful times, she might be able to use her identity as a princess to overstep the rules. But in the eventful autumn, she was either used as a tool of reconciliation and was bought to a tribe outside the country, or she guarded her life and saved the last spark of fire for the empire.
For a while in the film, the princess pretended to be mute in order not to be caught. She is indeed aphasia, she is closely linked to this country, others can not live, she must live.
In the 87 version of "Dream of Red Mansions", Xiang Yun was finally dismissed as an official slave. Baoyu took the glazed lamp that Sister Lin gave him and met Xiangyun on the surface of the lake. Xiangyun begged Baoyu to save her, but Baoyu could not save her. In the air, only Xiangyun's voice was left as the boat drifted away: "Love brother, love brother.
"Ordinary bureaucrats are still like this, let alone a genuine former princess? Want her, hunt her and then insult her. Once caught, this is her fate. Maybe the dagger the general gave her was not to let her kill the enemy, but" Leave the bullet to me at the last minute." As the dignity of the country, she cannot be defiled even if she dies.
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