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"The Beacon and Red Flames of Love": The idealist's head is broken and blood is broken
Bryon 2022-02-02 08:16:20
I don’t know if the male protagonist in the film is an early “Snowden”. He once came to Russia with idealism and a romantic wife, trying to find an ideal political system to rescue capitalism, but he died in a foreign country at the age of 32. More than half a century later, another idealist, Snowden, fled the United States with all the secrets and found "freedom" in Russia. Where exactly is the goal that human beings pursue, in this three-hour, 31-award-winning film, we may see how thorny the idealist's hard road is. As for the ideal of human beings, such as drinking water, knowing whether it is hot or cold.
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Enid 2022-02-02 08:16:20
2016.05.21 A typical example of "no zuo no die", I feel that this idealist is like a sheep that falls into a pack of wolves in the tide of the revolution. People with ideals are strong, and people with selfishness are strong.
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Stefanie 2022-03-26 09:01:14
It's too long...and then it leads to a very running account...seems like this kind of "epic" movie is also popular for a while
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John Reed: Zinoviev, you don't think a man can be an individual and be true to the collective, or speak for his own country and speak for the International at the same time, or love his wife and still be faithful to the revolution. You don't have a "self" to give.
Grigory Zinoviev: Would you be willing to give yourself to this revolution?
John Reed: You separate a man from what he loves most, what you do is purge what's unique in him. And when you purge what's unique in him, you purge dissent. And when you purge dissent, you kill the revolution! Dissent IS revolution!
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Louise Bryant: [to Eugene O'Neill] Are you nervous, or is that a tremor?