People: Flat symbols? Or is it a living life? --Movie "Merry Christmas"

Yessenia 2022-01-14 08:01:40

On Christmas Eve, I want to give myself a present. I picked a movie "Merry Christmas" that I wanted to watch a long time ago, and Christian told me a true story.
On the frontline of World War I in 1914, the three armies of Scotland, Germany, and France faced off. The trenches of the three parties are under their noses, and in front of them is the cold battlefield with corpses lying on them. On the night of Christmas Eve, a Scottish bagpipe sounded, and the music was never stingy. She stepped across the trenches, ripples in everyone's heart. A German non-commissioned officer who was originally a tenor, and the other's trench bagpipe, bravely walked out of the trench with a Christmas tree in hand, and sang the famous chant "Silent Night, Holy Night". At that moment, I thought every soldier There will be a warm picture in her mind--Home: Whether it's wrapping a newborn child or making coffee with her mother.
The incredible scene appeared. Wandering between hunger, cold and death, the soldiers walked out of the trenches under the call of Christmas songs. They put down their guns, shook hands with each other, took out their chocolates and cigarettes, and handed the photos of their wives to the "enemy". At that moment, there were no British, French or Germans, only living "people". The officers of the three parties agreed to a private truce for one night. They sat together on the battlefield where they had killed each other, and the Scottish priest presided over a mass. The next day, they negotiated again, brought back their respective soldiers who died in battle, and held a collective funeral for them. Because the dead have the same right to enjoy their Christmas as the living. The soldiers drank, played football, and played poker together. Gradually they discovered that the enemies they had always hated were so flesh and blood. Everyone has their own wives and children. Everyone has an interesting experience. Everyone has a good career. Everyone seems to have an interesting experience. Have all lived by their side. Some people left their addresses for new friends and invited him to stay at home after the war, or go to a bar for a drink together. The stray cats on the battlefield became common friends of the soldiers on both sides, and the Christmas tree became an olive branch that summoned peace. The three officers continued to collude with the enemy. Whenever one side wanted to fire from the rear, they would notify the other side to evade in their own trenches. In this way, they all survived. If there is no Christmas Eve, if there is no chant, they may have fallen into the trenches in blood and blood.
They wrote letters to their families to share the joy of the night. The letters were detained by their superiors and convicted of "treason"!
This is the "justice" face of the grand country and war in front of "Reed's individual". Is a person a flat symbol? Or is it a living life? To them you are a Lamite vertical machine, a Lei Feng-style screw. Just when you loaded the bullet into the barrel and prepared to charge into battle, you yourself became the bullet in the barrel of a certain leader of the country. You don’t know where your bullet is buried in the corpse, and you don’t know where to throw the dirt. inside. We always love a certain individual (leader, helmsman) to the extreme and a certain group (the people, the disadvantaged) at the same time, and we never want to love every living life around us! We are accustomed to seeing people passing by as a symbol, just like passing a wall or a tree, and sometimes we can't help turning our family, friends, and classmates around into a shriveled symbol. So when we come to the battlefield, the enemies on the opposite side are the heinous butchers and beasts. Not killing is not enough to quell our anger. However, I didn't expect them to come from a warm home like us, they also have their own stories, and they are looking forward to something! We may not have thought about it: Trenches can be used to shelter, can be used to block bullets, but they can never stop fear! The open space in front of you can be a battlefield, but it can also be a stage, a football field, or even a church! In this way, we died in each other's "hatred without hatred", and we fell on the battlefield without even leaving a name.
Weber said that the state is a legal monopoly on violence. But we unconsciously become the monopolized violence itself! What is true justice? Angelica is the happiness of every individual!
Why is the country afraid of private things? Because in the letters of those soldiers, every word permeates the reflection on the war and the care for the life itself! Because as "Nineteen Eighty Four" said "making love is revolution"! Because if you give me a soul, there will be revolution in the depths of my soul!
In my opinion, the scenes in the movie cannot be copied, because there is one thing declining-"faith". From the perspective of game theory, the three parties to the war are in a state of incomplete information repeated game. The three parties abandoned the "Nash equilibrium" under the prisoner’s dilemma and chose the "Pareto optimal". The realization of the equilibrium requires a kind of what Rawls calls "Overlapping consensus." And this overlapping consensus has been in a trance today, and the "Verdun Meat Grinder" that left us with more memories of World War I.
Think of the beginning of "Tai Chi Flag Flying". Koreans personally scanned the remains on the old battlefield and used DNA and bone synthesis technology to confirm the identity of each fighter. I think of "Assembly Number" again. Those 47 brothers who were regarded as missing were only given the poor honorary title in the end. But we must remember: the marginal cost of the state issuing "honorary titles" is zero, but you are trading for the life of a son, a husband, and a father. Is it worth it? With more honor, inflation will also depreciate! Besides, it doesn't work well in another country and another dynasty!
Gu Zidi shouted "Eat dumplings or bullets", this is a kind of strong persuasion to surrender. It is different from "Merry Christmas" where everyone sits down and prays equally.
"Poor bones by the riverside is still a deep boudoir dreamer"
"Xing, the people suffer! Perish, the people suffer!"
Zhongyuan

wrote to himself Christmas

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Joyeux Noel quotes

  • Le Major: Everyone to their posts!

    Gordon: [a moment of indecision] Every man to his post!

    Le Major: Quickly!

    [the Scottish soldiers get in position along the trench wall]

    German Soldiers: [Someone in the German trench stands up and walks into No Man's Land] No, stay here! What're you doing? Come back!

    Le Major: Well, what the hell are you doing! Shoot the bloody Kraut!

    [the Scottish soldiers look at each other; they don't fire]

    Le Major: What are you waiting for? Shoot him, God damn it! Holidays are over!

    [the soldiers shoot in the air to warn the man in No Man's Land, who begins to run toward the French trench]

    Le Major: What the hell do you think you're playing at? Shoot him!

    [Again the soldiers look at each other, shake their heads, and don't fire]

    Le Major: Shoot him!

    [Jonathan shoots the man, who falls midway between the French and German trenches]

    Le Major: Stand down from your posts.

    [They do]

    Le Major: Shame on you, Gordon. Shame on you.

    [Ponchel's alarm clock rings in No Man's Land. Gordon looks out to see Lieutenant Audebert running to help the man Jonathan shot - Ponchel in a German uniform]

    Ponchel: Be silly to die disguised as a German, eh?

    Lieutenant Audebert: What the devil were you doing?

    Ponchel: I had a German help me. I saw my mother. We drank a coffee, just like before... You have a son.

    [Lieutenant Audebert can no longer keep from crying]

    Ponchel: His name is Henri.

    [Ponchel dies, and Lieutenant Audebert sobs even harder. Gordon and the Major look on from their trench, Gordon grave, the Major baffled]

  • [the Lieutenant lights a lamp, revealing the General seated in a corner. The Lieutenant notices him, resigns himself]

    General Audebert: How did you let yourself...

    Lieutenant Audebert: If you came to preach, leave now!

    General Audebert: Don't you realize the gravity of this? It's high treason! Punishable by death.

    [the Lieutenant just looks at him for a moment, continues with his business]

    General Audebert: Only we can't execture 200 men. That's all that saves you. Not counting all the other cases of fraternization reported since. If public opinion hears of this...

    Lieutenant Audebert: Have no fear, no one here will tell.

    General Audebert: I hope not! Who'd want to?

    Lieutenant Audebert: Want to? The men involved feel no shame. If they won't tell, it's because no one would believe or understand.

    General Audebert: I don't understand you. Carousing with the enemy while the country's partly occupied!

    Lieutenant Audebert: The country? What does it know of what we suffer here? Of what we do without complaint? Let me tell you, I felt closer to the Germans than those who cry, "Kill the Krauts!" before their stuffed turkey!

    General Audebert: You're talking nonsense.

    Lieutenant Audebert: No, you're just not living the same war as me. Or as those on the other side.

    General Audebert: You and your men will rejoin the Verdun sector. You're right about one thing. I don't understand this war. My corps was the cavalry. You should have made a career of it, like I said. Today, I'm asked to fight a way where the shovel outweighs the rifle. In which people swap addresses with the enemy to meet when it's all over. Plus the cat we found with a note from the Germans, "Good luck, comrades!" I was ordered to arrest the cat for high treason... until further notice.

    [He turns to leave]

    Lieutenant Audebert: You're a grandfather, Dad.

    [the General stops and looks at him. The Lieutenant tries not to cry]

    Lieutenant Audebert: His name is Henri.

    [He grins through his tears]

    General Audebert: What are you on about? How do you know that?

    Lieutenant Audebert: You wouldn't understand.

    General Audebert: Henri? Not bad. Henri Audebert. Let's try and survive this war for him.

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