I think the producers of the film didn't just want to make fun of Trotsky, because today's world is not the Toronto that is everywhere in the film, and Leo is not an alternative character in today's society. In Greece last year, high school students took to the streets and threw stones at the police to defend social welfare. They were just like those students in that square in China. Some of them were shot and killed by the police. In the strike wave that swept China a few months ago, those demands The Honda auto workers of the Liberty Guild are about the same age as Leo, and they are also facing arrest and dismissal; in France last month, hundreds of high school students went on strike and took to the streets with their parents to protest the government’s attempts to make the working class do things. Attempts to pay for the economic crisis.
Think about your school, or factory and company, have countless lack of humanity school rules, ubiquitous pressure, insufficient lunch time, years of wages that have not risen, and superior management that oppresses you. Have endless overtime? Haven't you ever thought about the need for a change? Don't you and your classmates or colleagues need to join forces to form a union to earn the rights you deserve?
Our enemies are far stronger than the principal or director-general in the movie, and their minions are far more cruel and vicious than the police in the movie. They are big capitalists, high-ranking government officials, generals and secret police chiefs, personally in front of them, whether your weapon of resistance is a Molotov cocktail or a submachine gun, it is trivial. But the number of "us" more than "them" is the number of people who join together to form a union, whether in factories, schools, villages, or residential quarters, will make us strong.
Therefore, this movie should be understood as a political fable like "Animal Farm". The small cost determines that the film cannot achieve a grand background and narrative, but the message of the seemingly ridiculous characters and story is: the oppressed should organize and resist. As a Chinese audience, if you are not yet or do not want to be a member of the ruling class, this message is the main theme of all false prosperity and abundance.
In addition, this line really touches me emotionally:
What you seem to forget, Madame, is that we are not government employees, we are not your employees. We are students.just like those students in that square in China.and my name is Mr. Torsky.
And finally, when the students appeared with the temporary slogan and the guitar strumming, it was teary.
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