The difference from other films describing Seattle is that this film not only shows the Space Needle and Puget Sound, but also the 520 Bridge. After that, the Paramount Theater, which was blocked by demonstrators, was our watch. The place where the Broadway musical, and later the most violent Capitol Hill, is also a bar street.
Although the director's point of view is somewhat ambiguous, it is basically leftward, that is, the government is mainly responsible for the riot. But this matter has to be seen in two parts. Among the protesters, many people do not really have political demands. Many people may not even know what is going on in the WTO. There are also professional troublemakers. The trouble is to calm down. The anger in his heart for losing his younger brother. So rationally speaking, this matter could have been dealt with simply, but it got bigger and bigger, coupled with the ineffective measures of the Seattle city government, it got out of hand.
Having been in contact with the American imperial people so many times, I feel that they are sometimes quite funny. For example, they may not know much about a political appeal, but they always have a passion to say a few words, and they often follow what others say. The most obvious one is support for Tibetan independence. Many times I have seen American Tibetan independence activists handing out leaflets in schools with a determined expression. I asked him, do you know the specific geographical location of Tibet and his thousand years of history? What about the history of the people? They often answer irrelevant questions, but they will still shout, want independence, want poison! To use the Chinese way of speaking, it is a typical "you have nothing to do when you are full." For example, if we are going to protest, there must be something that violates our own interests. For example, when Dalai goes to UW, we form a group to fry his shed. It belongs to the reason of protest as generally understood by Chinese people. I really admire the ability of this group of people to fan the flames. I think a city with a lot of intellectuals and gentlemen can actually make a crowd and take to the streets. procession? A parade is a carnival!
Therefore, although this incident has been raging, and the movie also arranges a scene of a policewoman's pregnant wife being beaten by the police, I am still very puzzled as a Chinese, and even the protesters themselves can't say a few words in the interview. The persuasive reasoning of protest, just relying on the door of the venue to prevent the participants from entering, this is unreasonable, not to mention the shame of the Great American Emperor, it is also unreasonable to interfere with the operation of normal society. However, the protesters only realized they needed reason when they were besieged or caught in prison without a lawyer to visit. When they smashed, smashed and set fire, and blocked the street to prevent cars from passing by, they didn’t realize that they needed reason. There is always a set of rules for doing things. The mayor promised you at Key Arena that as long as you don’t make a big deal, I will never interfere with you. As a result, Yi was naive, and anarchists didn’t care about this promise.
Therefore, although the police are always seen in the movies as the reactionary faction that destroys democracy and freedom, I deeply feel that being a police officer is not easy, and it is not a person to be left or right.
There are a few interesting little details in the film:
1. In the real documentary interview, the Starbucks owner Schultz, who has been scolded by the people many times, talked freely there.
2. The actor who played the governor really found a Chinese. This is about Gary Locke, the then Governor of Washington State. In the movie, Mr. Mayor is helpless, and Governor Locke swipes his pen and goes to the National Guard. The implication is that he will kill these scumbags. Everyone knows what happened after that. After Battle in Seattle, I wanted the police chief to resign, and the mayor lost the mayoral election two years later, but Gary Locke rose all the way, from congressman to governor to secretary of commerce to the present ambassador to China. Some people say that Locke came to Beijing with a small bag to go to work, which is a mockery of our public servants. I think that is just a mockery of you who don't understand American politics. Classmate Locke's packaging skills are too strong, and his ability to deal with the public is too strong. , this is just a trick.
3. The pharmaceutical factory has become the target of film attacks again. I think that when many of our phd graduates have nowhere to go, they expect to enter the pharmaceutical factory. After all, the pharmaceutical factory has money, and people are ultimately driven by interests.
4. Charlize Theron, really put soy sauce in it.
A lot of WTO reforms are mentioned at the end, but I don't believe these were caused by the protests at every rally. To put it bluntly, national-level politics also depends on strength, especially in a country like the United States, which is dominated by consortium politics at the top level, and the interests of the consortium determine the direction of national-level initiatives. The WTO does have a negative impact on developing countries, but in this environment of free trade and global internal competition, you have no right to speak without strength. If you want to have strength, you have to integrate into the big group first. This is impossible. the rule of.
Twelve years ago, when I first entered university, the impact of China's WTO accession on China was being discussed in full swing. Two years later, China joined the WTO and on September 11, the same year. In another ten years, the world pattern is quietly changing.
However, I also feel that the Chinese who have been "only sweeping the snow in front of their own house" are not too qualified to criticize the Americans who "only ask others to put frost on their tiles".
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