Before watching this movie, I was reading the first "Fire from Heaven" of Mary Renault's Alexander the Great trilogy. At the beginning of the novel (356 BC), the newly risen Kingdom of Macedonia kept fighting against the surrounding nations. From the book, we know that the Kingdom of Macedonia is located to the north of ancient Greece. After comparing the map of ancient Macedonia on the wiki and the map of the world today, we know that it covers the countries of Central and Eastern Europe today, including Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Hungary. Waiting for a large part of the country. However, these are the most recent names-the many peoples who lived in those places and fought happily with the Kingdom of Macedonia two thousand five hundred years ago. Their names are so unfamiliar and unheard of: Theben, Thracian, Amphissian, Illyrian... …These peoples have bravely defended the land and homes they consider to belong to them, and they have also invaded other people’s homes and plundered cattle, sheep, gold and silver, and women. Then they were wiped out and subdued by powerful opponents, became slaves, and lost their land, homes, and names. Two thousand and five hundred years later, I can tell them that their wars will definitely fail, and they don’t need to waste time and lives fighting those wars; even the Persian Empire (the name, which was the most powerful in Asia and Europe at the time) "Have heard of") was also defeated by the Macedonian god-like Alexander the Great in ten years; even the god-like Alexander the Great created the largest empire in ancient history that stretched from the Adriatic coast to the banks of the Indian River. After his death, he quickly disintegrated and disappeared as the tide subsided. Those vast lands inevitably became the property of others, and were crowned with the name of the new kingdom.
Such historical changes are precisely the "Wei Lie Feng Gong, exhausting effort to move the mountains. The bead curtains paint the buildings, and the clouds will not reach the evening rain; the monuments will be broken, and the smoke will fall." By analogy, the various struggles in the world today are equally ridiculous, whether it is the Palestine-Israel conflict or the dispute over the territorial waters of the South China Sea-two thousand years later, the mountain will still be the mountain, and the sea will still be the sea, but the names of those people It must have changed long ago. (Of course, the premise is that everyone did not die in a nuclear war or other disasters).
So war is meaningless. The Kingdom of Macedonia, like all its former rivals, has become a cloud of history and a legacy of ancient Greece, not its territory, but its mythology, its philosophy, and its early democratic ideas.
Apart from war, it is revolution that makes people shed blood. Although war is meaningless, revolution is meaningful; war is a battle between nations and countries for land and resources, while revolution is the resistance of the oppressed against the violent ruler.
The story of Les Misérables is based on the revolution of the Republicans in Paris in 1832, which was an unsuccessful riot. Prior to this, the French Revolution of 1789 cut off the head of Louis XVI, ending the history of France as a feudal kingdom; starting a constitutional monarchy, the second French Revolution in 1830, the July Revolution, and the third in 1848 French Revolution-I guess that apart from historians, even ordinary French people can hardly count all the revolutions in French history. In the end, after three great revolutions and countless riots, France became what is now France—the Third French Republic. Not every revolution is successful, and not even every revolution has the same direction and ideas at the beginning and end. Revolutionaries killed the emperor, killed the nobles, killed the army and the police, and killed their own. Comrades... The road to a democratic republic is bloody, cruel, tortuous and long, but finally dawn.
In Les Misérables, the young students’ revolution seems innocent. They are even abandoned by the people they hope to represent. Their sacrifices seem meaningless. However, perhaps it is precisely this kind of strong demand and constant demand at the expense of life. The repeated shouts have become an invisible force that drives political and social changes. Do you hear the people sing? The cry from the bottom of the people's heart will one day resound in the sky.
If war is for the greed and arrogance of the rulers, then the revolution is nothing more than the small people in order to get the happy home of their dreams. Bring him home, bring her home. This is another theme song of "Les Miserables". Valjean gave Cosette a home, and Valjean took Maris home. At the end of the film, Fantine led Valjean back to his eternal home: beside the Lord.
Some people say "home is where the heart is", others say "home is where there is love", and this movie seems to tell us: for human beings, our eternal happy home only exists in one place—— In our faith.
In today's China, despite the high housing prices, millions of people still have their own houses; however, before we have faith, we are all homeless.
Early democratic thought in ancient Greece: 8th century BC-6th century AD
Christianity was born: 1st century AD.
United States Declaration of Independence: 1776
French "Declaration of Human Rights and Citizenship": 1789
Hugo "Les Miserables": 1862
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