A recent incident changed the notion that "art comes from life and is higher than life" that had been stuck in my mind before. I think this thing seems to be more wonderful than art. As the film "Hiding Place" tells, the intelligence officers questioned the intelligence agency they worked for when performing their missions, and turned to selling intelligence as a business. The film focuses on the CIA's arrest of Denzel Washington, a former US intelligence officer, interspersed with suspicion, trust, and betrayal among various characters. The film showed us an intelligence leak before the Prism incident, which must be said to be the director's foresight. However, this event in our reality seems to be more complicated than the movie. Controversial statements and various actions from various countries have made this incident continue to ferment. When watching a movie or reading a book, if we have a strong sense of the ending, we can fast-forward or turn to the end to see it, but the real events are still developing, and I am afraid no one can predict the ending. So life seems so wonderful in this matter.
Both "Hideout" and the Prism incident seem to be asking the question, are the democracy, freedom, and individual rights advertised by some major countries being respected? What is democracy? Is it governed by the majority, but the rights opposed by the minority are still respected; or is it governed by the minority, and the rights opposed by the majority can only be respected to a certain extent. Western democracy says these two basic rights are equally important, but what is the reality? Freedom and democracy are what we all pursue, but now it seems that freedom and democracy are just hiding in a man-made hiding place. If the hiding place is gone, where is democracy and freedom?
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