Prior to this, Dangdang had been admired by Amazon, Baidu and Tencent, but each time it was rejected by the founders Li Guoqing and Yu Yu.
Maybe all kinds of mergers and acquisitions in the business circle are too common now, such news does not attract too much attention. And what moved me was Li Guoqing’s two circles of friends who posted: The
so-called marriage is...sometimes I love him very much...sometimes I want to kill him with a single shot...mostly It was on the way to buy a gun that he met his favorite food...I bought the food but forgot to buy the gun... Gun..... The
other is: the world is lonely, and the world is full of clouds.
A long time ago, a teacher taught me the proposition of "Should the company raise pigs or raise it as a son". Wu Xiaobo said that there is another option, which is to raise horses. I also said that no matter what kind of mentality, it doesn't matter whether it is good or bad, but it is just a testimony of human cultivation.
Entrepreneurship is not easy, it is a dangerous journey of a life of nine deaths, this is the conclusion drawn by scientific statistics. I used to hear Zhang Ruimin say that being cautious and walking on thin ice is only a kind of cognitive realm, and only those who have experienced it can truly experience the bitterness and bitterness of it, so I can particularly understand Li Guoqing’s complex mood.
As long as we look back at the history of business, we will discover the ruthlessness and cruelty of the business world. Today, we grab a person and tell business stories such as Nokia, Kodak, Motorola, etc., and tell a lot of conclusions and reflections.
Looking back at the ending, of course, many reasons can be summarized. At that time, their biggest mistake may be that it was because they did too well and perfect in a certain local area, but ignored the emergence from another parallel universe. Innovation-"The Innovator's Dilemma" has an insightful analysis and summary of this, which seems to be the fate of all enterprises.
Therefore, all entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs are the bravest and most respectable group of people. The good life we enjoy today is largely due to their willingness to bet on money, feelings, and the result of life creation. If human society removes the chapter on business transactions, the world will immediately lose its colorful colors.
However, businessmen have always been burdened with heavy original sins, which are often associated with words such as greed, coldness, filth, and ugliness. Of course, today’s stereotyped businessmen’s image has changed, but they only care about making money, spiritual emptiness, business success, and feelings. Blankness was indeed the "Achilles' heel" of businessmen-how did they get on the road to business? Are they naturally sensitive to money and numb to feelings? Are they born to reject faith without spiritual pursuit? ……After
reading this "Blood is Coming", it may give you some answers, and at the same time, it will definitely arouse you to think more. This is also the movie that helped Daniel Day Lewis win the second Oscar statuette.
The story begins in 1898, and the gold rush in the western United States is drawing to a close. The protagonist, Daniel Plain, is a gold mining miner. He fell into the mine and broke his leg. He dragged his injured leg to sell a few ore in exchange for his life, and continued to expand and reproduce and dig wells for gold. As a result, the tool fell off the second time, but this time he developed. There was gurgling oil in the mine. God rewarded him for his diligence.
In this way, he inadvertently stepped on the drumbeat of the times, buying land, drilling wells, extracting oil, laying pipes, and turned from a poor miner to a successful oil tycoon. The film epicly reproduces the process of making wealth in the US oil industry in the early 20th century. At the same time, it more deeply explores the emotional conflict between him and his son HW, the religious confrontation with the missionary Eli, and the transformation of love and hatred with the fake brother Henry. His feelings have always lacked a piece of puzzle, and his soul has never found a place to stay.
It is often said that to understand Western society, one must understand Western religion. Max Weber's classic work "Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism" explains and discusses the foundation and driving force of the existence and development of capitalism and the spirit of capitalism from the religious level, as well as the causal relationship among them. The most prominent argument is that the Protestant ethics that accompanied the European Reformation Movement had an extremely important impact on the origin of modern capitalism and the entire process of rationalization in the West.
But in the film, Eli is a hypocritical preacher who uses religion to deceive reality, uses all kinds of superstitions to cover people's eyes and eyes, and hides the desire for money and the satisfaction of selfishness in the preaching to save people. Next, the setting of this character poses a great challenge to Western values.
The film greatly satirizes the demagogues and false prophets under the pretense of religion. They weave fascinating hallucinations, spread plausible wrong answers, advocate false confidence, and mislead people to seek false hope. The film takes all of this. They have all been exposed, but they have not provided an alternative plan-without the comfort of religion and the support of faith, where is our soul home?
Daniel is an out-and-out pragmatist. He fully understands Eli’s tricks, but when he needs to use the power of religion to soothe and calm the emotions of employees, he needs to be baptized in order to lay the pipeline to transport the oil out. , He will take the initiative to show good, bow his head tolerantly, and do whatever it takes to achieve his goal.
In the end, he ruthlessly exposed Eli's hypocrisy, asking him to repeat "I am a fake prophet, God is a product of superstition" over and over again loudly, as he said during the sermon, eight times in total.
He seemed to have won. He tore off the veil of religious mystery, but at the same time he lost awe, restraint, and rationality. The evil in human nature was thoroughly aroused. Does he kill Eli, does it mean that he kills? The kindness and loyalty, love and hope in your own human nature?
If religion is not worthy of faith to follow, can family affection fill the spiritual void? He initially brought the infant child with him just to facilitate the purchase of land, but we can clearly feel the trust and tacit understanding between father and son when getting along. If it were not for a fire and explosion, and his son was injured and deaf, perhaps his son would become an important sustenance of his feelings. But the father and son can no longer communicate without barriers as before. He left his son and sent him to a boarding school for the deaf and mute. He needs to devote himself to the construction of the oil field, which also caused the relationship between the father and son to be irreparable. The rift in China-being a father or a businessman (entrepreneur), sometimes it is difficult for you to say which choice must be correct. This proposition continues to be asked today.
Maybe we will say that of course the choice is for the son. If the son is his own, maybe he will definitely choose the son. In fact, this has little to do with whether you are biological or not. Sometimes there is a contradiction between doing business and Gujia. Behind every entrepreneur and entrepreneur, there are family sacrifices.
There is a fragment in the film that when talking about the acquisition, someone mentioned that he should take good care of his son. As a result, because of this sentence, his reaction was so strong that he completely lost his composure to the point of threatening to kill—because this is true. It's his sore spot, caring about it that makes him so angry.
Therefore, when the man named Henry came around and claimed to be his younger brother, he immediately opened his heart to accept him, took him to meet his business partners, said the most intimate words to him, and regarded him as the closest relative in the world. People. But who knows this Henry just borrowed the identity of his brother who died of illness. When he had to end his life with his own hands, he cried bitterly in the dark night. This was the only strong emotional expression in the film. From then on, he was left with loneliness and hatred.
Without the support of faith and the nourishment of family affection, Daniel can only live by alcoholism in a gorgeous empty big house...
What is the home of the soul, what is the fate, belief, Family affection, career, destiny, where is the home of the human spirit—there is no answer, only groping to move on—what a good movie is, no matter how many years later, it still reflects the reflection of reality in it.
Looking back at Li Guoqing, even though he still thinks about buying a gun when buying vegetables, at least the person next to him is still lucky.
Finally, I have to talk about Lewis' performances. Usually, I praise a person for acting well, just say who is acting like who. And Lewis’s level is that when you watch a movie, you will forget who the actor is. He is the character. Until the end of the movie, you don’t remember, oh, yes, it’s him.
"Blood is Coming" is such a movie.
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