A long, far away person in China told their king to govern the country with benevolence and put people first, but the king told him that you were farting. Indeed, China's most prosperous Han and Tang Dynasties until Genghis Khan, Kangxi and Qianlong depended not on convincing people with virtue, but on conquering the world with iron hoofs. Religious politics, law, philosophy, and literary methods will be used only when the world is governed. So equal social status has become a rich cultural by-product of the iron-blooded queen.
Someone in France told their king to learn from ancient China’s concept of benevolence and virtue, build a harmonious society, develop and create a new world. So the king said okay, let’s fight a fight first, so there was the French Revolution in 1789, so there was The "Declaration of Human Rights and Citizenship."
The above is just a digression.
In a sense, the sheep in "Brokeback Mountain" implicitly symbolizes this society. In English, "FOLLOWING LIKE SHEEP" can be translated into the mentality of the sheep, or the meaning of drifting with the flow. And JACK and ENNIS have always been outside the flock, not one of them. You can say that they are deliberately playing withdrawn or that they are not gregarious, but this kind of statement is limited to describing the singular. Once they are in pairs, they will form a small group that is different from the public-despite certain standards of this group It runs counter to the so-called moral ethics of the public. In "Milk", what Harvey Milk wants to fight for is the legal right of this small group to survive and the overall environment for harmonious coexistence with the public.
If BROKEBACK MOUTAIN symbolizes the Garden of Eden of JACK and ENNIS, then JOE AGUIRRE symbolizes trial supervision. At the beginning, the farmer listed a series of rules such as NO FIRE. Jack said that he has no right to let us do things that violate the laws of nature. In the end, they not only burned the fire but also made the love in their hearts intensified.
In the age of "Milk", our Harvey Milk seemed to completely abandon JACK and ENNIS's nasty fights, drove straight to Huanglong and beat the opponent by surprise, even though the old and rotten Dan White assassinated Harvey Milk, But as a loyal pursuer of equal rights, Harvey Milk has not only awakened the power of depression in his small group, but also won the public's respect for them and a reexamination of the so-called moral ethics. (Applause)
When JACK and ENNIS were still engaged in a guerrilla resistance campaign to encircle the city from the countryside (assuming Alma was a hostile element here), Harvey Milk blatantly penetrated into the enemy and participated in the election of the high-ranking counselors to buy enough time and outside the organization. space. This is the linkage effect brought about by the development of the times or the improvement of personal cultural quality. We don’t know. In short, whether it is JACK and ENNIS, or Harvey Milk, or even Harvey Milk and his political ally George Moscone, the friendship has risen to The most fundamental emotions of human beings have completely got rid of the big set of structuralism with the mass society.
From the same root to the national meaning, and finally to the cultural and moral identity on a global scale, we have to re-examine our subjective consciousness of the seemingly irreconcilable conflicts of human nature, nature, and values, so that we can obtain a continuous sublimation. Natural consciousness and the orientation of transcending differences and conflicts, and at the same time carry out an unfixed sense of reflection and criticism of nature, customs, laws, and morals.
"Milk" is not over yet, at least the ideals and pursuits that continue from the natural rural atmosphere are not over, because Harvey Milk itself is a kind of social pursuit, a kind of objective existence of all things that is different from rationality. respect.
If "Brokeback Mountain" is just the beginning, then "Milk" is willing to be the climax.
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