With the advent of the information age and the democratic system, politics is no longer the career of a few people, and the participation of most people has become the mainstream, even if you just vote for it. Therefore, a coup d'etat in this era requires more effort. In the past, it was only necessary to conquer the ruling class, but today it is necessary to conquer the people of the whole country. As a result, the atmosphere of the massacre expanded, and the coup d'etat was no longer an after-dinner talk for ordinary people, but may be a bloodbath happening around them, and the film "The Missing" showed the phenomenon.
I have read Isabel Allende’s "House of Ghosts" before, and the novel also describes the violence of the military government. Among them, the protagonist’s son Jaime was tortured (the most impressive is the use of cigarette butts to burn the test. Pill) and was executed. The author's brushstrokes were full of accusations, and it was later discovered that his uncle was Salvador Allende who died in the Chilean coup, and this is the background of the coup in "The Missing".
The main violence in the film is static, such as the sound of gunshots constantly sounding, visually there are scenes of corpses all over the wild (the corpses piled up in the gymnasium), and there are almost no scenes of violence displayed on the front, so we can only use imagination To understand the violent scenes hidden from the camera. But pure violence is too functional, and cold violence has become the main body of the film. The soldiers on the street, their indifferent expressions, and the government's negative attitude all make people feel personally powerless to face the system. Perhaps the film is intended to accuse, but for me personally, the dark and hopeless atmosphere makes people helpless.
I often dream about or imagine myself facing a scene of violence. Generally, this kind of situation is the easiest to die. After all, death is a complete relief compared with tolerating violence. All kinds of torture in ancient China were all for torturing the other party to the greatest extent before death. Lingchi execution was the most representative and tested the swordsmanship of the torturer. The former President of Liberia, Samuel Doe, was also cut off before being executed. Lost fingers, toes and genitals; there is also Saddam... torture or backwardness from civilization, or animal cruelty from man himself, in any case, people yearn for civilization. The reason why civilization makes people yearn for, at the very least, can guarantee the ease and joy of death, but in a human society dominated by desire, civilization can only package the details, and for the nature of society, civilization is always just a utopia.
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