Perhaps out of my interest in history, this movie about the early history of the American Civil War made me watch with gusto. Since it was the Civil War, it would undoubtedly involve the opposing sides-the Southern Army and the Northern Army. It was difficult for me at first. It is clear who is from which side. This film is not like the similar themes shot in our country. The characters are facialized, so you can see it at a glance. The film is quite objective, and most of the characters have beards, making it hard to recognize. In fact, the film mainly described the war from the southern perspective, centered on the experience of the famous southern general "Stonewall" Jackson, and expressed respect and praise for the southerners' integrity in defending their homes. For a long time, what we have heard of the Civil War was a war for the abolition of slavery. In fact, anyone who knows some history knows that this is purely bullshit. The so-called abolition of slavery is in fact a struggle after the North was beaten down by the South. A move that won the hearts of the people, and the irony is that many generals in the north have a large number of black slaves in the manor. Today, many people in the historian circles believe that according to the laws of the time, the South had every reason to be independent, and Lincoln was the criminal who jumped into the war against the law. Okay, let the professors argue about these legal issues in history. What we know is that this war guaranteed the independence of the United States. Guy" has been hostile for a long time.
Perhaps time can really change everything. Nowadays, Americans have a broader and more objective view of the Civil War, such as General Lee and General Jackson, who have long been criticized in mainstream discourse and have received more and more praise. At the beginning of this "Gods and Generals", Lincoln's special envoy invited General Lee as the commander-in-chief of the army to quell the rebels, and General Lee rejected the appointment in his opinion to invade his homeland. Instead, he stood on the opposite side of Lincoln and led the soldiers of Virginia to defend their homeland and their property. Defending the homeland and defending the country has always been the core issue of the Southern human rights balance in this film. As a federal country, Americans had a different conception of the country from ours. For example, Southerners often put their homeland in a higher position In their hearts, the houses, fields, bridges, warehouses, etc. on their homeland are worthy of their heads and blood to defend, so they don’t want to “indulge” a country with the North Koreans who are already in conflict with them. , And they also regard themselves as the inheritors of Washington. In their view, the greater significance of Washington’s struggle lies in the pursuit of freedom, not the creation of a country.
Sensational and exaggerating atmosphere are the strengths of Americans. I can see fragments like movies everywhere, and I was instigated accidentally. For example, when the South decided to leave the North and prepare for the upcoming war, I was in a big family. , The mother and sisters sang the starter song for the two soldiers who are about to go on the expedition. The mother calmly said, “We are never afraid of the end result of the war, but there will be many loved ones who will die, and there will be many Thrilling and painful moments come before we truly breathe the air of freedom, before we feel the sweet guarantee of peace and safety!" After speaking the tragic words, another southern flag was delivered to them; General Jackson To one of his black entourages, "A person like you will always be free, no matter what path it takes, the problem is that as long as the southern government can think of this sensitively first and faster, it can make our chain of friendship stronger. "Of course, it turned out that it was the North who first realized this. This fragment also implies that there was no obvious so-called justice in the initial stage of the war; and those brothers who had come from Ireland together in pursuit of freedom wanted to Fighting between two opposing camps, tearfully fired at a former friend; during the interval of the war, two soldiers from the north and south crossed the river to exchange a sip of cigarettes for a sip of wine; there was also General Jackson for a man who died of pneumonia. The girl was crying. When one of his colleagues was crying and wondering about a child for the general who had never weeped, the military doctor on the side said, "No, he is crying for everyone." In short, this film describes the trauma that the war has brought to the people on both sides, and at the same time extols the heroic behavior of the people.
It should be said that this movie is an attempt to surpass the common sense of winners and losers and extols a belief in defending the homeland. Although in the long run, the industrialized North at the time faced the South which was still under the plantation economy. The odds of success, but this is not what this movie cares about, it is more about showing a concept. Of course, such an objective transcendence requires a realistic basis. After all, the United States was a unified country after the Civil War. Under such a premise, it is possible to think more deeply about the past. Just as we can now look at the two sides in the civil war in Chinese history with a detached attitude. So, after watching this film, I didn’t give birth to too many people’s feelings, and our feelings, just as in fact, the United States still has a long-term gap between the North and the South for a long time after the Civil War. With the healing of the facts of national reunification and time, finally, the two sides gradually moved from reconciliation in form to reconciliation in fact. We often say that a nation can only value its humiliating history when it is strong. Similarly, a country can only value its painful or ugly history when it is strong. Today, China has not yet been reunified, and the strait is still a dangerous reminder of the possibility that a war of reunification still exists. Therefore, it is extravagant to talk about reflection and attention at this time.
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