The film does not talk about how the dictatorship was formed, nor what the end of the dictatorship is, so I don’t think it’s enough to call it the last dictatorship, not to mention the Libyan Gaddafi regime that was overthrown just a few years ago, even now we Nor is it 100% certain that dictatorship has been wiped from the face of the earth. The film shows several manifestations of dictatorship. The film even borrows the doctor to describe the dictator as a "naive child". Perhaps the director wanted to express that any politician who looks mature and kind like God is just a "naive child". "Under the authority, people may be moody, change day and night, and do whatever they want. But near the end of the film, what the dictator Amin said to the doctor before he ordered people to be hanged alive with hooks through the flesh and tortured: "What is real life, death is the first reality you face" This kind of If it is extremely cruel and cruel, we really can't name a dictator with simple naivety. It's just naive people who can't do cannibalism and racial cleansing. Of course, what people should really be vigilant about is that the weakness of human nature is buried in everyone’s heart, and no matter how bright a person seems to be, it is possible to get lost in authority and do unimaginably terrible things. The film also doesn't tell us what happened after the last dictatorship, and the Western concept of democracy that is as bright as light does not leave a good impression in the film. Diplomats or just spies) and even threaten doctors to poison the dictator; even the dictator advertises himself the most that he is a product of democracy, that the people chose him, and democracy has become a mask and a deception for the dictatorship.
The formation and whereabouts of the dictatorship are still undetermined mysteries, but the people under the dictatorship are indeed as the dictator said, and the reality they may face for the first time is death. In addition to death, there are extreme poverty, starvation, disease... The dictator walks on the corpses of the people along the way. The people here are not a political concept, but every living person, breathing and heartbeat. , so strong or thin, so handsome or ugly every living person. The doctor saw clearly the concept of the people. He saw the soldiers in front of the glass window and ran out to stop them when they were about to eat poison. He saw the soldiers and the people.
Mencius said, "Everyone has a heart that can't bear others, and only when they see the joys and sorrows of everyone is the time when the people become the people." Beyond that, the slogan of democracy can only be a footnote to a dictator.
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