Mr. Viktor Navorski, from Krakozhia, a fictitious war-torn small country in Central and Eastern Europe, and then unfortunately became a stateless refugee. He was parachuted in front of Uncle Sam’s door, unaccompanied and almost penniless. His English expression ability is basically nothing but yes and no. Only Jazz.
Mr. Frank Dixon, the local elite, the new king of JFK International Airport, is in control of life and death. He has countless "slaves" under him. Just sitting in the office and shaking the remote control and walkie-talkie, everything is under control.
It is true that Navorski has many advantages: for example, perseverance, being able to live at the airport for 9 months is really extraordinary; another example is courage, being able to spare the face to earn quarters by recycling trolleys, I am afraid I don’t have the guts to replace it with craftsmanship; , Not only can be used to mix rice, but also to pick up girls, I must have worked as a bricklayer in China... OK, these advantages may help him survive in a difficult situation, but it is only to survive. It is necessary to win Dixon by a single challenge. Still no chance of winning.
Fortunately, this small character Navorski has one of the most important advantages: he is compassionate, and it is a very strong kind; and Dixon's compassion seems to have been swallowed up by his desire for power. Navorski protects himself and can’t. He is like the most helpless orphan in the airport, but he never forgets to help strangers around him, even though he does not help from time to time. Dixon always emphasizes rules. In his eyes, there are no people. Emotional mechanical creatures, this world runs by power and rules. Facts have proved that in the struggle for allies (of course this is only an unconscious struggle), compassion is far more powerful than power and rules. The ant can defeat the elephant because he is not fighting alone.
"Passion - that is the foundation of this country." This is what Dixon's old boss taught Dixon, but unfortunately he didn't seem to understand the deep meaning at all, until he watched his opponent go away, maybe he didn't understand why he failed. He couldn't imagine that the Indian old man who had always been timid and fearful and kept his name incognito for 23 years in order to escape prison would have the courage to pick up a mop to "hijack the plane"; even less could he believe that his "slave" would be a collective mutiny. "Aren't they afraid of withholding wages, firing or even sitting in the classroom? Are there really people in this world willing to sacrifice themselves for others?"
Yes, people are selfish, but only limited, so the effectiveness of power is also limited.
"No matter how selfish people might think of someone, there are always certain natures in this person's talents that make him care about the fate of others and regard the happiness of others as his own business, even though he has not only seen Others are happy and happy, but nothing is gained. This nature is compassion or sympathy, that is, the feelings that arise when we see or vividly imagine the misfortunes of others."
This is Adam Smith's "Theory of Moral Sentiments" Opening. Compassion, or caring for others, is the basic affection that everyone is born with. Although our dinner is not necessarily a gift of mercy from the baker and the butcher, it is difficult for a society that has lost compassion to provide more warmth than dinner. Think about the magnificent Cultural Revolution...
For the current state of social chaos in China Many people attribute it to the "incomplete legal system." However, are there really not enough laws in China? I very much doubt whether there are more red-head documents in this world than China. Can more laws promise a better future? I am very pessimistic. Some people say that the United States is a model of a "legal country", but this model country is actually using the precedent system and illegally codifying it. As the old boss of Dixon said, the foundation of this model country is "love" rather than "law", because the core of law is still people.
David Hume said that the law is designed to deal with "rascals"-so the law can only maintain the lowest level of morality. If a society without law is a barren land where the weak can eat the weak, then a society that relies solely on the operation of the law is at best a large and orderly prison. The Kennedy Airport under Dixon's rule was such a prison. Every low-level employee kept chatting daily to protect himself, until Navorski, an order disruptor, suddenly arrived. His big mudra proves to people that apart from following the rules, one can do more. Besides himself, there are other people in the world. Life has since turned a new page.
In the end, with the support and help of everyone, Navorski successfully "breaked out of prison." It seems that he is not the only one who succeeded in "jailbreaking". The awakening of compassion frees many lonely souls from the narrow single-person cell, fighting for others and fighting side by side with others. This is not only a victory in battle, but also a transcendence of personal life.
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