If you have watched this movie carefully, you can see that there are two shots. One is the female number one walking into the dormitory of the railway workers. Many Chinese female workers are washing the clothes of the workers. They are very delicate in appearance. They are in sharp contrast with the western cowboys and even the dark female number one. The second shot is at the end of the film. There are two Qing dynasty people walking around with long braids, and one of them is wearing a hat like the manga "Old Master Zi".
I saw two news reports from the Internet:
On May 8, 2017, the California House of Representatives passed a resolution unanimously, making May 10th each year as the anniversary of the Chinese Railway Workers. This resolution was proposed by Chinese Rep. Luo Dalun from Silicon Valley, and jointly signed by Chinese Rep. Zhu Gansheng, Zhou Benli, Ding Youli and Japanese Rep. Tucun.
On May 10, 2018, California will usher in the first anniversary of the Chinese Railway Workers. More than a century ago, more than 10,000 Chinese workers used their blood and sweat to build the Pacific Railway across the North American continent, but their contributions have been buried. Today, the sacrifices made by the Chinese workers in those years are finally recognized, and this "delayed justice" is still gratifying to Chinese Americans.
It turned out that in the 1960s, as many as tens of thousands of Chinese laborers built a railway here that changed the United States. In fact, Chinese laborers have also built a railway across Canada, because I have seen a memorial to them on the streets of Vancouver with my own eyes.
These dusty historical marks should be reawakened and examined in different perspectives before our eyes. We Chinese can not only be laborers, in fact, we can have a bigger stage for development.
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The movie "Once Upon a Time in the West" describes the end of an era, but it is a portrayal of the enterprising spirit of white people. Western civilization is a kind of seed that can germinate wherever it flies. Chinese civilization is a piece of land, all types of seeds can be transformed into the same kind of seeds, and plants that are neither good nor bad can be grown. When the seeds of Western civilization flew to the land of Chinese civilization, the century-old series of wars between China and the West occurred from the end of Qing Dynasty to modern times. As a result, the Chinese civilization compromised and allowed some Western seeds to grow their own appearance on the ground. But it is different for the Chinese seeds to fly abroad. They are used to the domestic soil that can never become the climate. They are just stuck in clusters from the east to the west. They are all dreaming of flying back to the motherland one day, and the fallen leaves return to their roots. As for the "exotic land" where it lives all its life, it will always be out of place.
The history of the west is full of the shadows of the Chinese. Those who have made outstanding contributions industriously never want to be the protagonist.
The dead male protagonist wanted to build a train station in that small town, with a post office, a tavern, and an inn... This is a brand-new new world, a dream full of life. But those Chinese people will always look at their hometown and will never be able to truly integrate into this vibrant land. This is a kind of sadness.
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