(Updated on December 31, 2019, the original text in early November 2019 is retained, the original title remains unchanged)
(New comments after the end of the season on December 31, 2019 are marked with a dividing line after the original text, and the individual proposed the title of the new comment is: "America: One set on the surface, one set behind, fish and bear's paw, I am all want")
Original text in early November 2019
- "Are American movies the best movies in the world?"
I don't dare jump to conclusions on this point, after all, "good" is a very subjective assessment.
But what is certain is that the United States is the most sophisticated film and television producer in the world today. This country has the world's strongest film and television industry strength, the best technology, the most skilled technical team, as well as a large number of experienced directors and actors with excellent acting skills.
More importantly, however, the U.S. is also by far the best producer of themes in history. Whether this achievement is unprecedented, I don't know, but it is unprecedented.
Many people may think: How is it possible for the United States to make a theme movie? Isn't this a Chinese characteristic?
This is the deviation of the definition of "main melody".
I personally think that the "main theme" film and television works refers to works that "can strongly reflect the mainstream ideology or values of a society".
Therefore, the "main theme" movie, to be more precise, should be a movie that "can strongly reflect the spirit of society".
And if it is based on whether it can strongly reflect social ideology and values, then the United States is the world's first, and Chinese theme movies are still the same in front of American theme movies.
Because the best propaganda is to act like propaganda.
The main theme movies of the United States, the American spirit in them, has long been integrated into the film itself, so that it is so subtle that many people, including me, who grew up watching American blockbusters, have subtly accepted many of these concepts.
In Saving Private Ryan, is it worth risking the lives of eight to save one?
In "Spotlight", Catholic priests sexually harassed countless children. Is the truth worth exposing?
In "Dallas Buyers Club", should an AIDS patient who was initially very anti-LGBT become a fighter for the gay community?
The American spirit in American themed movies is revealed naturally, without deliberate slogans or slogans.
It is like the realm of swordsmanship in Jin Yong's novels.
In "The Legend of Condor Heroes", Dugu's swordsmanship can be summed up in five stages - sharp sword, soft sword, heavy sword, wooden sword, and no sword
1. Sharp sword - before the weak crown to compete with the heroes of Heshuo
2. Soft sword - used before the age of 30, it is ominous to accidentally injure a righteous person, and there is no end to regret. It is a deep valley of abandonment.
3. Epee - The epee has no front, and it is too clever to work. Before the age of forty, he was rampant in the world.
4. Wooden Sword - After the age of 40, no matter what, plants, trees, bamboos and stones can be used as swords.
5. No Sword - Since then, I have been intensively cultivating and gradually progressing to the state where no sword is better than sword.
The best theme works produced in the United States can be said to have entered the realm of "no sword", while most of the theme movies in China have not performed well in the market. , it is only suitable for "competing with the heroes before the weak crown", and it may not necessarily win.
But the TV series "For All Mankind" is obviously not a good enough American theme work. In terms of publicity, it is slightly explicit.
Science fiction films do need proper science fiction, but in order to promote the American spirit, this TV series obviously exaggerates (cuàn) Zhang (gǎi) some historical facts.
Especially at the beginning of the first episode of the play, the Soviet Union's first speech after landing on the moon——
"I took this step for my country and people,"
“I take this step for my country, for my people, “
"To take this step for the Marxist-Leninist system."
“and for the Marxist-Leninist way of life.”
"I took one small step today, but this will be one giant leap to take all of humanity to space."
“Knowing that today is but one small step on a journey that someday will take us all to the stars.”
——Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov (Алексей Архипович Леонов)
On the lunar surface on June 26, 1969
While the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War is well known, both sides went to great lengths to prove that their political systems were superior to the other. But if the Soviets really landed on the moon before the Americans, their speeches must have been much smarter.
This is evident from the historical Soviet space posters
The Soviet Union's first space-themed propaganda poster - "In the Name of Peace" (во имя мира). The painting was created in 1959, when Sputnik 1 came out, and it had a huge impact on the world, especially the United States.
This woman is not actually any specific person related to spaceflight, but the incarnation of the entire Soviet Union - Mother Russia. Wearing a red blouse and scarf symbolizing the revolutionary regime, she holds up her right hand towards the moon, with an abstract painting of a rocket heading for the moon behind her.
In the Soviet space propaganda posters, heroes and ideals are the eternal themes. The stars and space are the eternal backdrop.
The imagery symbolizing "ideal" is very rich, such as the rocket flying from the palm of the human hand, symbolizing the passage from the earth to the stars;
After the mid-1960s, which is the era when the competition to land on the moon was intensified in history, posters of this style usually had a strong imprint of "imagination", and the superposition of abstract elements made the theme very meaningful.
Indeed, for the entire human race, that journey is a period of adventure and brilliance that constantly surpasses the "impossible", but there are also painful failures and confusions.
Of course, for the Soviet Union, all this is not just "ideal". Occupying the highlands of space exploration is one of the goals that a country pursues with all its might, and strong political symbols are everywhere. This is the appearance of a special history, and it is difficult to judge with "right" or "wrong".
To be sure, Soviet space propaganda attached great importance to its contribution to all humanity.
From the first spacecraft, Sputnik 1,
to the first astronaut - Yuri Gagarin,
Then to the first female astronaut, Valentina Tereshkova.
The Soviet Union has always emphasized: "the first of mankind".
If the Soviet Union really landed on the moon before the United States in history, then its astronauts’ speech on the moon would naturally be much higher than in the play, and maybe the title of the play would be used at the beginning of the speech – For All Mankind.
Secondly, at the end of the second episode, the play unfolds a dangerous plot direction - the story line of the female astronaut.
Why is this storyline dangerous? Because the plot is probably not handled well. Combined with the content in the trailer, the plot is likely to look like this:
A beautiful white woman and wife of an active NASA astronaut, in response to the political need for female astronauts in the U.S. government, was selected for the U.S. Female Astronaut Selection Team, and then dangled at the beginning of the selection team with her astronaut husband. Her extramarital affair had many contradictions with him, and in the end she managed to overcome these contradictions and became the first American female astronaut.
Usually, the plots of American dramas' counterattacks against female characters tend to be closer to the above routine. However, if in the next third episode and even the following plots, if the drama cannot get rid of this stereotype of female characters in American dramas, then this will be A failed theme work, at least in my opinion.
Because in this play, after the Soviet Union brought the first man to the moon, it brought the first woman to the moon, as the play said: all of this is of great significance to women all over the world.
But women can go to space, go to the moon,
Not because women should be like this,
But because women can.
Because "women hold up half the sky".
And if the show reveals in the next plot: because Soviet women landed on the moon, then American women should also be on the moon. I think it goes against the human rights values that the United States is proud of.
It's not that women are born that way, it's that women are born to be that way.
The women of our country became astronauts,
Not because the Soviet Union made her women astronauts, so we should too.
But because women in our country can become astronauts, they can also become astronauts, and they are more capable of being astronauts!
And if an American theme work reveals the idea of how certain groups should be born, then it will definitely be an unqualified work.
I hope the writers don't let the plot go in that direction.
But it has to be said that so far, many of the skills in this work that reflect the main theme have not been mastered by Chinese directors and screenwriters.
The most obvious is to subtly pit oneself against the enemy mentally.
In the play, through the Soviet people's speeches on the moon landing, the play instantly created an image of the Soviet Union that emphasized the supremacy of the state and took Marxism-Leninism as the core ideology of the country. There is no specific description of the Soviet Union.
Then, through the slow unfolding of the plot, the positive spirit of the Americans is reflected step by step.
However, many of China's former main theme movies are not very clever. These movies often directly demean the enemy in specific images. representative of this approach. The enemies in these works seem to be mentally retarded or incompetent, and they can only run away in front of the teachers of justice.
Or, those who have created a materially powerful enemy in a specific image, but clearly emphasize their own justice in spirit and highlight the evil of the other party. This theme movie is not too numerous to enumerate, and again I do not. Many (gǎn) are listed one by one.
In general, these main theme movies in China are too explicit, too direct, not clever enough, and not as covert as this American drama.
However, this American drama is not a good enough American theme work.
One of the reasons, I think, is that the enemies it creates are too flat.
If the character created is too flat, then the character always seems to be missing something, and it seems to be less flesh and blood. After all, people in reality are complex, and bad people are not just bad people, they may just be people with different stances, and good people are not all good people, they will also have bad thoughts and have their own small abacus.
Shouldn't we be more proud of defeating a flesh-and-blood enemy than defeating a single-strand enemy?
Shouldn't the death of a flesh-and-blood enemy also deserve our momentary respect?
In the German film "Our Fathers", I was saddened by the death of a "bad guy" who killed innocent people, because the film portrayed him as a living person, not a paper-like image, A machine that just kills innocents indiscriminately.
But it has to be said that a one-sided enemy is the best target. From ancient times to the present, countless kinds of negative news are the best example:
I don't care whether your country has defeated German fascism, whether it has made outstanding contributions to the liberation of workers and women around the world, as long as your country is not as "free" as mine, I will criticize you;
I don't care whether your country has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, and whether it has allowed a weather-beaten nation to prosper step by step. As long as your country is not as "free" as mine, I will criticize you;
In fact, I don't care about your country or your people at all. As long as your country's interests conflict with mine, I will criticize you.
A one-sided enemy is the best target.
This article, too.
Regardless of whether the show For All Mankind is otherwise good or not, as long as it's not to my liking at one point, I'm here to "criticize" it.
However, I actually hope that Chinese theme works can learn more from the excellent American theme works.
I think, the real theme,
Material concrete carriers should be abandoned
The true inner spirit should be revealed,
All actors and lines are just the carrier of these spirits,
Because only the spirit itself is the most important,
Because people are mortal,
But not the spirit.
(Of course, the spirit still needs a material carrier, so there must be someone alive)
In 1946, with the fall of an iron curtain, the ideological war had already begun,
In 1991, with the lowering of a red flag, many believed that the ideological war was over.
However, the war was not over.
The war of propaganda has been going on.
The conflict of values has never stopped.
Whether you admit it or not,
The battlefield is there,
Not going away.
Fifty years ago, the Soviet Union lost on the moon and lost propaganda.
Fifty years later, I only hope that China will not lose again.
If possible, I actually really wish it could be like the name of this show
"For All Mankind."
For all mankind,
For the great unity of the people of the world,
All human beings seek common ground while reserving differences, harmony and difference,
to the world.
but,
have to say,
I can't see these today,
Looking around the world, what I see is mostly a battle between dragons and tigers, intrigue and deceit.
So,
If there is no way "For All Mankind."
If the community with a shared future for mankind eventually comes to nothing,
If the people of the world cannot be united in the end,
Then I just hope--
China is peaceful and peaceful, and the weather is good.
The description of the "Soviet Space Poster" part of this article is quoted from "Soviet Space Poster: When the Sea of Stars Meets the Sickle and Hammer" of the WeChat public account "Sovietism", and has been edited.
December 31, 2019 New comments below
Title: "America: One set on the surface, one set on the back, fish and bear's paw, I want them all (I feel the end of the first season of the American TV series For All Mankind)"
A few days ago, I downloaded the last episode of "For all mankind" on XXTV and watched it. As a giant rocket slowly lifted off from the sea, setting off a stormy sea, this slightly sci-fi scene made I can't help but look forward to the second season. I actually hope that this rocket with a larger load can make the second season more sci-fi and let the imagination of the show fly further. Because at present, this drama is really stuck in American politics and cannot extricate itself. Various issues in it, such as feminism, immigration, homosexuality, etc., are all hot topics in American society today.
But at the time I had no desire to write anything.
But today is different. Today is December 31, 2019, or rather, the last day of the 2010s. In the future, this is the late 2010s in the history books, and perhaps many things that happened in this year that we can only talk about after dinner, such as the impeachment of Trump in the United States, the Conservative Party in the British election The victory, the Hong Kong riots, etc., will be recognized by future historians as major historical moments or turning points.
But at the moment, this moment has no special meaning to us ordinary people. Those who should go to school go to school, those who should go to work go to work, those who should fish for fish, there may be many people in the circle of friends who are traveling outside, but many working people still Looking forward to the New Year's Day holiday tomorrow, but when I think that the holiday is only one day, I can't help but feel a little depressed.
But no matter what, people always want their lives to have a sense of ritual, and so do I. The friends in the circle of friends are celebrating New Year's Eve, or inviting New Year's Eve, or expressing the emotion that no one will accompany them to New Year's Eve. No one asked me for New Year's Eve today, so I thought I might as well write something about "For all mankind".
At first, when I saw the huge title of the show: "For all mankind", and after the show of the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in the first two episodes, I thought this would be a correct description of the glory and greatness of the United States. TV series, the main line of this drama is how the United States took the lead in landing on the moon after the Soviet Union, through the superiority of its own system, how to fully care for various groups in society and advocate their rights and interests, and finally through the power of free people, in the space race victory over Soviet imperialism.
However, as the plot progressed, I found that things were not that simple.
Until I watched the first season, I found that the show was not really concerned with the moon or the sea of stars, nor about the defeat of the US imperialists against Su Xiu and the victory of freedom and democracy over dictatorship.
In fact, the show is wearing the science fiction coat of the space race on the surface, and it talks about contemporary American socio-political issues behind the scenes.
As far as I can see, the first season of "For all mankind" has four main issues: one is women's rights, the second is immigration, the third is gay rights, and the fourth is government abuse. These four issues are the four core contents of the first season of the show. The other issues, whether it is the moon landing plan, the US-Soviet hegemony, or technological progress, are just foils to these issues.
And "For all mankind" is not just about presenting these social issues to the audience. After a closer look, it is not difficult to find that the screenwriters have very obvious positions and attitudes towards these four issues.
The following is an overview of the main plot of the main social issues in the play, and based on this, my personal subjective assumptions about the screenwriter's attitude
1. Feminist issues
Overview
E03——Soviet female astronauts landed on the moon, the president of the United States, under the pressure of the feminist movement, also wanted to send women to the moon, but the United States did not have female astronauts, so Deke (Deke Slayton) was ordered to train the female astronaut team, but Dick was very Angry, I felt that this was forcing the dwarf to pull out the generals, and he couldn't pull out a few. The wife of male astronaut Edward Baldwin also resented the vase selection, blaming it for tarnishing the efforts of male astronauts. However, the trained female astronauts still tried their best to overcome five obstacles and six generals, proving that they are not vases, they are still capable, and they have harvested a large number of small fans and small fans around the world.
E04 - Female astronaut Patty Doyle unfortunately died in training, and at the same time, the US president no longer attaches great importance to the feminist movement, and plans to cut off the female astronaut program, but Deke Slayton has changed his mind. In opposition to the plan, they strongly supported the female astronauts, and they killed them first. They held a press conference in advance to announce the first batch of female astronauts in the United States, lest they be cut off by politicians. During the subsequent training, female astronaut Molly Cobb was absent-minded and could not keep up with the rhythm at first, and was provoked that she was not good enough to represent American women in the moon landing. Requirements standard, successfully flew to the moon.
E06 - The Equal Rights Amendment was passed. This case is mainly to achieve equal rights for men and women. The passing of this case is a big victory for American women. Just the result of a political deal.
E10 - The moon landing spacecraft was out of control. In desperation, female astronaut Ellen (Ellen) came out to Dick (Deke Slayton) beside her, but she did not get Dick's support, so there was the following dialogue:
Alan: I thought you would understand, after all, you were the one who supported us in space
I guess I thought you would've understood. You pushed for us when no one else did
Dick: Because you're both excellent pilots, gender... doesn't matter
Because you were good pilots. You being women ... was beside the point
Ellen: Gender is all that matters, Dick, the world is changing and you are the driver
It's the whole point, Deke. The world's changing. And you helped change it.
The screenwriter's attitude towards women's rights issues (my speculation):
In the dialogue in E10, I think the screenwriter used Allen to express his point of view. Gender is the most important (It's the whole point). Throughout the play, the screenwriter strongly opposes discrimination against women and fully supports women's equal rights. Women are encouraged to defend their own interests through legal weapons, and I also think that the screenwriters also have a positive attitude towards the radical struggle of the feminist movement and encourage women to take the initiative to fight for more power.
2. Immigration issues
Overview
E01 - A family in Mexico watched TV at home on the day of the Soviet Union's moon landing. Aleida Rosales, a Mexican girl, was sick but insisted on watching the live broadcast. She wanted to witness history. Then their family smuggled to the United States. While the American lunar spacecraft flew to the moon, the Mexican family under the moon also ran to the United States.
E02——The Soviet female astronaut landed on the moon, planting a seed in the heart of the Mexican girl Eleda, and she has loved space even more since then.
E04——Mexican girl Eleda's father worked as a cleaner at NASA. At the press conference of the first female astronauts in the United States, he brought his daughter a precious speech, which is Deke Slayton The manuscript read at the press conference, my daughter kept this manuscript
E06——Mexican girl Eleda was doing her homework in the auditorium of the flight control center, and was recognized by Dr. von Braun's favorite protégé Margo Madison, and the two began to interact.
E08——Mexican girl Eleda is talented, hardworking, and Margo's wisdom. She was selected into a Kennedy math program, which means she has the opportunity to enter a first-class university, but she doesn't want to go, it seems to be with her boyfriend , and seems to be worried that Dad has no money.
E09 - Mexican girl Aleida Rosales' father, a cleaner working at NASA, was under investigation because he took out pictures of the trash that was thrown out inside (the pictures are all for his daughter at the moment) She was suspected of being a common person, so she was arrested, and she is likely to be deported to Mexico, which is likely to cause her daughter to live in the United States from now on.
E10 - Eleda, who learned that her father was arrested, and at the urging of Margo, finally decided to participate in the Kennedy Mathematics Program and chose to travel to the ocean of knowledge for further study.
Attitudes of screenwriters (my speculation) on immigration issues:
The immigrant image in the play is completely positive, a hard-working Mexican dad, a talented and intelligent dream girl, I think the screenwriter supports the right of immigrants to pursue their dreams, and opposes the repatriation of immigrants, and through the play, the dad is arrested. Judging from the plot of the separation of father and daughter, the screenwriter should especially oppose the Trump administration's behavior of taking the minor children of illegal immigrants away from them from 2018 to 2019.
3. Homosexual issues
Overview
E04 - female astronaut Ellen (Ellen Waverly) is actually a lesbian. Her girlfriend is Pam Horton, the bartender of the bar where the astronauts often hang out, but on the surface NASA people think that Ai Ellen had a boyfriend, Larry Wilson, who also worked at NASA. Since the society at that time was very unfriendly to homosexuality, Allen could only pretend to be a pair with Larry. Hold hands in public and talk about love.
E06—Apollo 23 exploded on the launch pad before launch, killing many ground crew members. The government immediately launched an accident investigation. Because the U.S. government believed that it was the ghost of the Soviet KGB agents, it also launched an investigation on NASA’s internal personnel. , lesbian astronaut Ellen (Ellen Waverly's ostensible boyfriend, also gay Larry Wilson, is under investigation, and Allen and Larry need to be more careful not to be found out as gay.
E07 - The investigation of the insider continued, Allen was also pressed by the investigators step by step, and his homosexuality was about to be hidden. Under the pressure of the investigation, the lesbian Allen was forced to marry the gay Larry , to avoid the edge.
E10 - Female astronaut Ellen (ellen Wilson since E07) loses control of her spacecraft in space, and in this desperate moment, she comes out to Deke Slayton, but doesn't get Dick's Blessing, but being scolded by Dick would jeopardize the entire space program. At the end of the mission, Dick died unfortunately, and Allen was able to continue to cover up the secret. After the moon landing, Allen delivered an important speech in an interview with reporters. The words were striking and touching, but in the end, in order to cover up that he was a lesbian, he was forced to say I love you Larry (that is her same-married husband) said against her will, and her old friend Pam is watching the person she loves on TV at the moment, but she is in tears because the person she loves On the moon, instead of expressing love to myself, I said something against my heart.
Attitudes of screenwriters (my speculation) towards gay issues:
The homosexual groups in the play are in the position of victims. They cannot openly express their sexual orientation and their love for their lovers, and can only be forced to hide. , The screenwriter opposes the behavior of discriminating against LGBT people, believes that everyone has the right to love freely, fully supports the equal rights of LGBT people, supports them to proudly disclose their orientation, and does not want anyone to be forced to hide.
4. The problem of government abuse
4.1. Official corruption & official support
Overview
E06—Apollo 23 exploded on the launch pad before launch, killing many ground crew members. The government immediately launched an accident investigation. Wernher von Braun, a retired old Nazi, pointed out in the final report, The reason for the explosion was because NASA contracted key parts to unqualified companies for political reasons. The rocket exploded due to the unqualified key parts. Margo Madison in the control room told his boss about this. , but learned that his boss chose to hide the facts in order to cover up this political scandal, so Margo raised his arms and shouted: "Every system is corrupt!" The bargaining chip of coercion, became the flight commander.
(I speculate) the screenwriter's attitude towards official corruption & official protection:
The screenwriter exposed a political corruption for us, but the characters in the play used it as a threat to achieve their own personal goals. From this, it seems that the screenwriter should not completely deny and hate the issue of official corruption. The screenwriter is against this kind of The behavior of political corruption, but it does not object to repaying others in the way of others, and believes that in political struggles, they can make full use of the handles of political opponents to achieve their own political goals. Corrupt things don't necessarily need to be made public, and may be available to me when the time is right.
4.2. The government violates the rights and interests of citizens
Overview
E06 - Also due to the Apollo 23 explosion, the U.S. government thinks it's the ghost of the Soviet KGB agents, and has launched an investigation into NASA insiders, the ostensible boyfriend of lesbian astronaut Ellen Waverly - the same Larry Wilson, who is gay, is investigated, and Allen and Larry need to be more careful not to be found out as gay.
E07 - The investigation of the insider continued, Allen was also pressed by the investigators step by step, and his homosexuality was about to be hidden. Under the pressure of the investigation, the lesbian Allen was forced to marry the gay Larry , to avoid the edge.
E09 - Mexican girl Aleida Rosales' father, a cleaner working at NASA, was under investigation because he took out pictures of the trash that was thrown out inside (the pictures are all for his daughter at the moment) She was suspected of being a common person, so she was arrested, and she is likely to be deported to Mexico, which is likely to cause her daughter to live in the United States from now on.
The screenwriter's attitude towards the government's violation of citizens' rights (my speculation):
The U.S. government in the play is investigating various personal behaviors of citizens on the grounds of investigating the conspiracy of the Soviet KGB. It can be seen that the screenwriter should strongly oppose the government's violation of human rights, and demand that the government's power be restricted to ensure the freedom and human rights of all people living on American soil, including homosexuals and illegal immigrants.
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In general, the screenwriter's basic attitude towards the four major issues is as follows
First, for women's rights, the play strongly supports women's rights, and has a negative attitude towards negative struggles and a positive attitude towards radical struggles;
The second is immigrants. The play opposes infringement on the freedom and human rights of illegal immigrants, and demands the protection of their rights and interests;
The third is gay rights. The play strongly supports the gay rights movement and encourages gays to love and hate;
The fourth is the abuse of power by the government. The play vigorously opposes the abuse of power by the government, and demands that the power of the government be restricted to ensure the freedom and human rights of citizens.
The United States in the play is set against the historical background of the United States from the 1960s to the 1970s. The main social movements in the United States at that time were anti-war, racial equality, equality between men and women, and opposition to the government's suppression of the pro-democracy movement. Among them, although there are issues of gay rights and immigration, they are not mainstream. However, the two issues of immigration and homosexuality (which have grown into LGBT in contemporary times) are precisely the hot social issues in contemporary America.
The screenwriter paid attention to these two issues beyond the time at the time. It can be seen that "For all mankind" is nothing more than a film that uses the space race of the 1960s and 1970s and the background of American social movements as a cover to discuss contemporary American social issues. Works that are brought to the screen with the screenwriter's personal attitude.
Not only that, but it is not difficult to see that the play's attitude towards these four issues is highly consistent with the platform of the American Democratic Party today. Combined with the current political environment in the United States, to a certain extent, "For all mankind" can be regarded as a cry of the Democratic Party and an anti-Trump pioneer work.
After all, Trump himself was accused of discriminating against women; second, he was determined to oppose illegal immigration; third, he was regarded as conservative and stubborn and did not agree with LGBT;
In recent years, there have been thousands of political issues in American society, but the ones that have received the most attention are the following ones (in no particular order, because all of them are noisy)
1. Immigration policy
2. Gun control issues
3. Feminism & Abortion Issues
4. Race (minority rights) issues
5. The issue of government power (government power and civil liberties)
6. LGBT (gay and sexual minority rights) issues
7. Issues related to people's livelihood (medical insurance, pension, social welfare, etc.)
The first season of "For all mankind" is a mere 10 episodes in length, including many sci-fi shots of spaceflight and moon landing, and it is not easy for it to occupy only four of the seven major social issues in the United States. It’s a pity that American astronauts didn’t bring guns to shoot Soviet astronauts on the moon, and the screenwriting of racial issues was not launched, and people’s livelihood issues were not on the agenda for the time being. Discussed in the play.
Now this for all man kind (for all mankind) has become a for all kind of man (for all kinds of people), not only involving one or two issues, but almost every time a subplot is involved, it will pop up A social issue, and the intertwining of various political issues is dizzying.
Radical feminists, ethnic minorities, and LGBT people must all resonate deeply when watching the TV series "For all mankind".
So, on the surface, "For all mankind" is like a TV series that opposes oppression, advocates equal rights, advocates equality, and encourages freedom, and represents contemporary American progressive thinking, or the American leftist trend of thought.
But I don't think that this makes "For all mankind" a positive American TV series that promotes ideological progress and advocates freedom, equality, equal rights, and fraternity. I don't think this is a conscience discovery of the screenwriter, so I put it in the show. An innovative work that satirizes the injustices in American society, advocates people's movements, and makes America's future better.
In my opinion, this is just a science fiction TV series with a strong American political overtone and an obvious political orientation.
Because in the United States, whether civil organizations or political groups are fighting over lines and ideologies on the surface, in the final analysis it is a struggle of interests.
For example, the ideological representative of this show, who today is the incarnation of the left, the American Democratic Party of the light of freedom and human rights, has not always been so left in history.
In the early 1960s, the majority of American Democrats opposed the civil rights movement and represented more conservative forces, while the Republican Party at this time was the representative of progressive ideas. Seeing that things were not going well, Democratic President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964, drawing the minority who originally supported the Republican Party into his own camp. In the late 1960s, more and more Democratic leaders also began to express their views. Support the civil rights movement.
But in the 1970s, after the Republicans representing "freedom" were re-elected several times, the Democrats realized that they were not free and progressive enough, so they put forward a more radical political platform for freedom and equality, united more radical civil rights movement groups and more of ethnic minorities. Finally, in 1976, when Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter was elected, he appointed a record number of women and minorities to key government offices and judges, and enacted numerous environmental protection laws. At the time, it was the extreme left. Since then, the Democratic Party has become a party even more left than the Republican Party.
In fact, the U.S. government, where the two parties take turns governing, has not always been so leftist. Historically, the U.S. has been very conservative, and it can be said to be unrivaled in suppressing the pro-democracy movement.
Such as the use of force against the Chicago strike workers in the 1880s; the forced deportation of key elements involved in the "return to Africa" movement in the early 20th century; the random throwing of large numbers of American Communists into prison cells at the beginning of the Cold War; the brutal suppression of New Left and Radical black civil rights movement; the May 1970 shooting of a student by police at Kent State University in Ohio, and so on.
It was only around the 1960s that the U.S. government’s policies and strategies for dealing with the civil rights movement had changed compared to the past. Before the 1960s, the U.S. government focused on giving full play to the repressive function of the state apparatus,20 The US government after the 1960s tends to absorb, guide, utilize and even cooperate.
In short, in the past, the United States emphasized the power of rigid means, but now the United States emphasizes the effectiveness of flexible means.
But in the final analysis, the American trend of thinking to lead the world is progressing, but the world is bustling, and it is all for the benefit of the world.
The anti-Wall Street social protests in 2011 were not actively absorbed by various parties in the United States, but were moderately suppressed. So far, the anti-Wall Street movement has only allowed American politicians to put forward more political programs to improve social welfare and pay more attention to low-income groups.
It can be said that in the United States, you can have racial equality, gender equality, and sexual orientation equality, but the vested interests of big capitalists cannot be equally distributed.
When progressive ideas become political weights,
For all mankind? (For all mankind?)
For all kind of man?
for my benefit. (For my interest.)
That's all.
In E06, Margo raised his arms and shouted: "Every system is corrupt!" But I think the screenwriter actually has the second half of the sentence to say, but didn't say it:
First half sentence: Every system is corrupt!
Second sentence: But if you vote for our progressive side, America will be better tomorrow
In addition, I have seen many people say that the screenwriter of this play has found out in conscience. After all, the play uses various means to satirize the United States, and it also satirizes the barbarism of the United States through the mouth of the Soviets. That is, the Soviet astronauts in the E10 were deafening in the US base, and they angrily denounced the hypocrisy of the United States. The original text is as follows
America is fair and just, America is kind and merciful, America has saved the world from the evil Soviet Empire
America is good. America is kind. America saves the world from evil soviet empire.
Come on, Edward, I've seen America for what it is, I've seen babies, women and children littered with corpses, blown to pieces by American bombs, in Cambodia, in Dresden, Germany, in Hiroshima, Japan, in Korea ,
but you know what Edward? I've seen real America. oh yes, I have seen bodies of babies and women and children ripped apart by good American bombs. In Cambodia, Dresden, Hiroshima, Korea.
This is your true face, and this is the true face of America.
this is you, this is America!
—Speech of a Soviet astronaut tied to a pole at an American moon base
Is this the discovery of American conscience, self-reflection?
I think it is and it is not.
One of the great strengths of the United States is that they can do one thing on the surface and another behind it. Not only that, but they also want all of them.
On the surface, the United States represents progressive ideas and is a beacon of freedom, democracy and human rights. We value everyone's rights.
Behind the scenes, the idea of supporting progress is just to win votes, and the passage of affirmative action is just a tool for political transactions or gangs. . Completely disregarding the human rights of the people of other countries, only cares about whether they are free and democratic, in other words, only cares about the interests of the United States.
On the surface, Americans are opposed to war, and the hegemonists of the United States are against the people of the world
Behind the scenes, what kind of hookups are Americans doing? I quote a passage from a banned cartoon XX Park in Season 7 Episode 4,
(America) This country was founded by a bunch of the brightest minds in the world who recognized that a really great country can go to war, but at the same time act like it doesn't want to. Those of you who support war, you need protesters because they make this country look like it's made up of sensible, caring people, and those of you who oppose war, you need pro-war activists because if our country They are all a bunch of soft-ball kneeling protesters, and we have long since perished. This is why the founding father thinks that we are both the main war and the anti war. This is the so-called fish and bear's paw.
"This country was founded by some of the smartest thinkers the world has ever seen. And they knew one thing: that a truly great country can go to war, and at the same time, act like it doesn't want to. You people who are for the war, you need the protesters. Because they make the country look like it's made of sane, caring individuals. And you people who are anti-war, you need these flag-wavers, because, if our whole country was made up of nothing but soft pussy protesters, we'd get taken down in a second. That's why the founding fathers decided we should have both. It's called 'having your cake and eating it too.'"
On the surface, the United States can occupy the moral high ground
Behind the set, the United States can use any means to seize their interests around the world
As the saying goes, For all mankind, but America go first
One set on the surface, one set on the back, fish and bear's paw, I want all of them.
December 31, 2019 late night
references:
1. Lv Qingguang, Changes in the role of government from the perspective of the American civil rights movement after World War II, Journal of Jiangsu Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition), 2014
2. Gong Fan, The Second Wave of the American Feminist Movement (1960s-80s), Shandong Normal University, 2011
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