When your hometown rebels against the motherland

Rey 2022-01-13 08:02:24

The War of Independence and the Civil War are the two most important wars in the history of the United States. The War of Independence gave birth to the United States, and the Civil War laid the foundation for the United States to become a superpower. "The Battle of Gettysburg" reflects the Civil War and a more comprehensive film that reflects the American Civil War. For those of us who are educated in official history books, the shock brought by this film is beyond words. "Brave Heart" is regarded as a classic by us, and the sound of freedom made many people cry, but compared with this film, Brave Heart is a sissy epic. In the words of netizens, if Hollywood wants to move people, it is definitely not just a brave heart.

This movie is the longest movie I have ever watched. It has more than four hours. It is also a physical test to watch it in its entirety. Many viewers are exhausted before they reach the climax, so this also affects it. Spread.
"The Battle of Gettysburg" mainly describes the Battle of Gettysburg. In this battle, the Potomac Army of the Northern Army defeated the Army of Northern Virginia led by the great General Lee. The vitality of the Southern Army was greatly injured, and General Lee never again. Ability to go north. One of the main characters in the film is General Lee. His ancestor is a British nobleman, and he is the patriarch of the Washington family. The Washington family lives in Virginia. Ironically, it was in Virginia that started the American Revolutionary War. One shot, for the Virginians, this was the second war of independence. Our textbook interprets this war as a united war to liberate the slaves for some purposes. In fact, the beginning of this war has nothing to do with the slaves. The liberation of the slaves is just a strategy to attack the southern economy. When the North Army was attacking the South, it treated the South like a hostile country, burning, killing, looting, and looting.
The other main character in the film is Colonel Chamberlain. He is a university professor. For the sake of the value of equality in life, he stepped onto the battlefield. In this battle, an infantry regiment blocked the attack of three infantry regiments. Hikari also launched a bayonet charge. Even if the battle damage reached more than 80%, his position was not lost. "Gai" does not have many inscriptions on the Northern Army, and the northern generals described in the film are far less attractive than the Southern generals. Colonel Chamberlain is the only highlight of the Northern Army.
The climax of the film is the last Pickett charge. 15,000 people have to pass through an open area of ​​1,200 meters, facing more than 200 cannons and thousands of rifles of the North Army. The most terrifying thing is that the North Army still occupies the high ground. The range and accuracy of their weapons have increased, and they have a stone wall as a shelter. Undoubtedly, this charge was a suicide, but these soldiers moved forward with their chests upright and finally broke through the stone wall. The farthest one rushed to more than 90 meters behind the stone wall and lay there forever. But in the end, the southern army was still regained by the counterattack of the northern army due to insufficient strength. If it is to maintain slavery, soldiers cannot have the courage to charge. Their courage comes from the family, from the hometown where they were born, grew up, and fell in love. Living in the free air, they gave their precious lives. The ancestors of some of them once said to the King of England, give me liberty or give me death. I think this sentence is also the voice of many soldiers of the Southern Army, and it most reflects the way that the Puritans arrived in this free land on the Mayflower. Spirit.
Fortunately, the United States has a deep reflection on the Civil War, and all kinds of ideas can emerge. That's why the United States can become the United States and be so culturally strong. Unfortunately, we are propagating culture everywhere under the slogan of five thousand years of civilization, but no one will kill us, because besides the things of our ancestors, what contribution do we have to the culture of the world.

The biggest influence of "Gai" on me is that it made me think about independence. We have always thought that reunification is a truth that does not need to be proved, so that the Internet angry youth even threatened to use nuclear weapons to reunify Taiwan, so why do we want to reunify? I think we have many, many reasons, and they are indeed very reasonable, and they are in the best interests of our country. But is it wrong to seek independence? For example, if you join a club, do you have the right to quit when you don’t want to continue participating? Can the interests of a small number of people be sacrificed for the benefit of the majority? This is a very interesting question. Just like the fictitious case in "The Mysterious Cave", a group of people are trapped in a cave, and when they are about to die of starvation, a person proposes a lottery, and the drawn person will be eaten, and the result is drawn. To himself, at this time he opposed being eaten, but he was still eaten, so should the person who eats him be punished? If you don't eat that person, then all people will die, and if you eat it, you will violate the criminal law. There is never a standard answer to such a question, because the ass determines the head, and everyone’s interests are of course different. There is no right or wrong, and the world is not black and white. So the answer itself does not matter whether it is right or wrong. What is important is the freedom to express different opinions, and this freedom is truly worth defending with life, and it is the most precious legacy of the American Civil War.

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Gettysburg quotes

  • Maj. Walter H. Taylor: Good morning, sir.

    General Robert E. Lee: Goor morning, Major Taylor.

    Maj. Walter H. Taylor: Will the general have some breakfast?

    General Robert E. Lee: No, thank you.

    Maj. Walter H. Taylor: We have flapjacks in small mountains. Fresh butter, bacon, wagons of ham, apple butter, ripe cherries. You really ought to pitch in, sir. Courtesy of our host, the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

  • Gen. Robert E. Lee: [Lee and Longstreet ride to an observation point to plan their attack] General Longstreet, you have General Pickett now, he's fresh. I want you to bring your corps forward. Take those heights in the center and split the Federal line.

    Lieut. Gen. James Longstreet: Sir uh... my two divisions, Hood's and McLaws'... well sir, they executed a forced march yesterday and went straight into the fight; lost half their strength. Sustained 50% casualties, sir. They are tired and need a rest. There are now three Federal corps on those two rocky hills on our right flank. If I move all my people forward, well, we won't have a flank at all. They'll simply swing around and crush us. They are well entrenched up there, they aim to fight. They got good artillery and plenty of it. Sir, any attack we make will be uphill, over open ground. How do we communicate? How do we coordinate attack? They're all massed together, damn near in a circle. Good interior lines. Anywhere we hit them, they'll bring up reinforcements in a matter of minutes. But we try to bring up support: they have to come from miles away and their cannon will see every move. Hell, their cannon are looking down on us right now.

    Gen. Robert E. Lee: [Determined] In the center they will break...

    Lieut. Gen. James Longstreet: Sir?

    Gen. Robert E. Lee: They will break in the center. Those people will be gaining men from all directions, guns by the thousands, and Richmond has nothing left to send us, so if we stay, we fight. If we retreat now, we will have fought here for two days and will leave knowing we could not drive him off. And I have never yet left the enemy in command of this field, no sir. Retreat is no longer an option. The enemy has been attacked on both wings, he has reinforced there and is strongest there on the wings, the hills and the rocks. So, the weak point is in the center. They have command of the high ground. But in that long slope, you see there?

    [Lee points]

    Gen. Robert E. Lee: The long slope in the center... there is where he is most vulnerable. General Pickett's Virginians are the only people not yet engaged, yes?

    [Longstreet nods]

    Gen. Robert E. Lee: With General Longstreet in command, my Old War Horse, meeting the enemy face to face, on ground of his own choosing and with honor, we will prevail.

    [Lee rides off]