Ideological diseases are like viruses, and preventive measures must also be taken

Shaina 2022-03-14 14:12:30

During the Cold War in the 1960s, countries under the control of right-wing soldiers and police (alluding to Greece) sent thugs to assassinate senators in order to crack down on the speeches of left-wing senators at home and incited the people. Later, they covered up the truth in every possible way, destroyed evidence, and killed witnesses. After the incident was revealed, despite being charged by conscientious judges, senior military and police officials were only given a symbolic administrative warning and nothing was left. As the police chief said at the beginning of the film: "Ideological diseases are like germs, and preventive measures should also be taken. I want to tell you senior government officials, we must protect the healthy body of our country and cure these diseases. Yes, we must sweep away all disease."

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  • Kenton 2022-03-25 09:01:21

    My mother told me about the situation when I watched this movie.

  • Gracie 2022-03-23 09:03:15

    The big-name cast and crew, including the director, are not paid, and the film's composer is still in jail. Under such circumstances, an Oscar-winning anti-dictatorship film was made. The 85-year-old director also said today that he does not feel that art and business are in conflict, and that art that is recognized by the audience can be sold in the future.

Z quotes

  • Matt: Hélène! Hélène! Hélène! They've all been charged, even the general. The magistrate didn't back down. You see? It's as if he were still alive. It's a real revolution. The government will fall. The extremists will be swept away. The elections will be a landslide victory.

  • Vago: This guy leaps onto the truck bed, lithe and ferocious as a tiger. He grabs me - and whoosh! Out I go into the street.

    Examining Magistrate: How did he leap?

    Vago: Like a tiger.

    Examining Magistrate: Before that.

    Vago: Lithe and ferocious as a tiger.

    Examining Magistrate: Yago used the same exact phrase.