"Some people were born to wave the flag
Oh the flag is red, white and blue And
when the band played "Salute to the President,"
they turned all the cannons on you
God, that's not me, I'm not the Senator's son , I'm such an unfortunate person" -
Fortunate Son was still
childish, a gun was shoved into the arms of the youth, and after the helicopter rumbled, it was thrown into the mudflats of Vietnam, and yes, the old men told them that they were in Fighting for the free world, but at the same time being forced into this place by the free world, yes, they fought for democracy, but at the same time they were sprayed into the streets by the water cannon of democracy, in order to resist an evil despotic communism that has never been touched , but it seems that the old men and the red who have never met, who is more like the villain in the propaganda?
At that time, everyone was laughing at the revolutionaries who went to Spain to stop the dictatorship, but the revolution did not die, and the ideal did not die. Now it's amazingly familiar, just because of one legend: Che. Including Che itself, all the fanaticism of the youth, in my opinion, not communism, but idealism that is, revolutionary romanticism, and even I don't want to find a word that ends with "ism" to describe, yes, There is no doctrine, just a yearning for the world and stability.
"Imagine all the people
We live for today in
the fantasy world that no power
no longer kill or sacrifice
nor religion massacre (for fight between Marxism)
Imagine all the human beings
live in peace
imagine there is no such possession
is not greed, not hunger,
universal brother
Imagine all the people
sharing the joy of this world...."
-imagine
But there are still radicals.
Like the "weathermen" in the movie. They are not "terrorists", just a group of people who are dissatisfied with the reality of society , young people who want to do something to bring about change. Named after a Dylan lyric, "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows" ).
Use violence to suppress violence, and use violence to awaken the awakening of the public capitalist world. Let's smash the glass of the capitalist world to shreds! However, those who frowned may be the people who originally hoped to wake up.
"Revolution is not a dinner party, essay writing, painting or embroidery. It can't be so elegant, so calm, gentle, so gentle, courteous, and thrifty. Revolution is a riot, a violent action by one class to overthrow another class!" Mao Zedong in 1927, that year he 34 years old.
Progress must lead to revolution, revolution must lead to overthrow, so overthrow must lead to violence? Maybe yes, maybe not. I don't want to comment on China's history. Without violence, the relatively stubborn Nationalist government certainly wouldn't go to Taiwan with its tail in its own hands.
Turn the pen, let's talk about the movie.
The young reporter Ben, played by Shia LaBeouf, stirs up a 30-year history of dust like a catfish in pursuit of the truth. Ben's excellent tracing ability and negotiating methods made the FBI officials who were also pursuing the truth seem like a group of headless flies, who only knew about eavesdropping and tracking. Under Ben's investigation, the identities of the members of the "Underground Weatherman" were exposed, and the fact that Nick Ben was innocent was also discovered by Ben. And for such a fact, Nick Sloan had to try his best to find the close "comrade" Mimi Lurie, because only the latter can prove his innocence.
The "underground weatherman" robbed the bank to make people aware of the bad things the US government did, but at the same time innocent people were killed, and the case also forced several members who had been on the run for 30 years to remain anonymous. When the incident became the focus again, people in their twilight years finally realized the importance of family members, and even the most stubborn people finally made compromises to human nature and affection.
A cliché American-style chasing one's own film, speed up the storytelling, you can make "The Bourne", "First Blood", but this film took 2 hours to tell a sleepy slow story, A story that our generation of foreigners (compared to American history) is completely ignorant of, but has a profound implication, that is, a question: what should the struggle of doctrines be for?
Communism and capitalism, fighting to the death, what should they be for? Even when we are pulling the gun pointed at the head of the enemy from another world, have we ever wondered, what is this for?
The protagonist Nick, after 30 years of incognito life, figured it out.
Whatever the doctrine, we devote ourselves to it, we dedicate ourselves to it, and we die to it, for one simple thing: for us and those we love.
If a revolution abandons family, ethics, morals, and affection, and can deprive innocent people of life and abandon our beloved relatives for the so-called victory of the revolution, then what kind of revolution is this? !
"We were destroyed by our own principles, and we gave up more basic obligations." In the film, Mimi finally realized in Nick's words that family and children are the most important things in life. All chose to surrender and clear Nick, and the old Nick was finally able to reunite his father and daughter.
"Our free world is under threat from the Communist Party" So anti-communist?
Because the atheism that communism upholds is different from that of Western Christendom, should we be anti-communist?
From this point of view, the ideological struggle is just an absurd joke.
All isms fade away, and people-to-people, equality and freedom, fraternity and harmony are the real demands.
However, this is again idealism or romantic reverie, or the song of Imagine:
"There is no hell
in the ground where we live, there is only the sky above us."
Compared with dreams, reality seems to never escape the vicious circle of ism
So
the struggle for doctrine continues, and for what reason, it is still being covered up by lies.
The story shouldn't end like this pessimistically, because imagine also has a sentence:
"You may say that I am a fool,
but I am not the only one in the world.
I hope that one day, if you join our
world , we will become one and
have a world of great harmony.”
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