The story of this movie is a paradox about guns. Texas and other places revolted and became independent because of their dissatisfaction with the Confederation. The militiamen went to New York (regardless of how they were heavily armed from the southwest to the northeast), with their own weapons in their hands. M16 to AK, because they thought that the New York Downtown under federal rule did not have so many guns in compliance with federal laws. They stabbed a hornet’s nest. People of all ethnic groups took up Uzi submachine guns, baseball bats, and tennis rackets. The Marine Corps and the National Guard dared not easily set foot in the war zone, and only established the DMZ.
The film avoids politics and military affairs, and more portrays the experience of ordinary people in sudden wars. There is only escape, death at any time, no heroes to save the world, no protagonist aura, no safe area, and even no time to grieve. Fate is endless.
In our view, the United States is a magical country, because the ideological gap between us and theirs is too large to be compatible. Just like our position on the earth, we have our problems, but American democracy is not perfect. This It's society.
History is a spiral, as Hegel said: The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing. Or to use the words more familiar to the Chinese: the world's major events must be united for a long time, and we must be divided for a long time. We are fortunate that we are living in an era of "combination". Peace and development are the main theme. We can enjoy more than survive. But maybe one day, when you walk out of the subway station, you will not be greeted by the warm spring breeze, but by the Molotov cocktail bursting at your feet.
I remember that Wang Jinkang had a science fiction novel about a mathematics genius. He derives a formula through historical analysis. Inputting variables can accurately derive the year of human catastrophe. Later, the mathematician committed suicide because he believed that the formula was impeccable, but he also calculated that 20 years later, it would be an apocalyptic disaster that mankind cannot avoid. And 20 years later, the world is still calm and no disaster is coming, so his friend recalculated the formula in front of his grave, and found that 20 years later is still the end, so the friend used various years to calculate again and again, no matter which one Year derivation, 20 years later is the end of the world. The author finally told us through the mouth of a friend that the disaster is always there, just like the high-hanging sword of Damocles. If we are not careful, the end will come.
Going back to the movie and what I want to say, it is actually a paradox about the private ownership of guns. Whether it is allowed or prohibited, it does not have much meaning, because violence and ignorance are our nature, weapons are magnifying glasses, ordinary people Always a victim. But history will never pity the victims.
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