The film is not complicated, a typical assembly line work. The historical background is the Sultan Mahdi uprising before the two Jiazi, and the "undefeated" Sino-French war in the same period. Gordon, the foreign gun captain who suppressed the Taiping Rebellion, was killed by the Sudanese in this war. The film is from the perspective of the British army, who suppressed the uprising. It is obviously wrong to view colonial oppression in terms of today's European and American values. The director is faced with the problem of "unifying the three traditions", and I have to say that he handled it well. It has shaped anti-war youth who "do not fight for the flag, but fight for the people around them", as well as harmonious interracial friendship, and at the same time avoid the old values. In the film, the British officer's sentence "No barbarians can take down the British fortress", and the "British people are really arrogant" when the male protagonist saves his friends through the mouth of black people, this kind of characterization makes people not only hate the British people. The arrogance, but I think they are a little cute, obviously the director succeeded. Aside from the values, the scene of the Mahdi army's attack at the climax of the film is also very infectious.
At the same time in history, in the eyes of the French, the Chinese who resisted them were probably the same savages, "uncivilized" and needed Christian values to "civilize". Our ancestors regarded themselves as a state of ritual and music and a great country, but in the end they abandoned "Chinese body and western use". Sudanese still cling to their traditional values and await their Mahdi.
Somehow, I thought of Xie Lingyun's "Book of Persuading Hebei". The Jiangzuo court, which had been in peace for a hundred years, also had the arrogance of "the five hu algebras are all over the world, and the remaining life of the captive period will be exhausted in the next year". Going forward, before Yongjia, I must be more arrogant in the face of Hu people. It takes eight hundred years and four hundred years for the Han to give birth to this kind of arrogance, the arrogance of "the emperor of the barbarians is not as good as the death of all the Xia", and the arrogance of "a Han is like a five-hued". Huan Da Sima avenged the revenge of killing his father with one discipline. Facing "Shenzhou Lu Chen", he spent his whole life, but only sighed at the tree he planted in his early years. Today, when Duke Huan is reborn, can there be such a sigh? Farewell, my Lelang; Farewell, my Jiaohe; Farewell, my Jiaozhi; Farewell, my Shenzhou. . .
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