Don't get me wrong, what I said here has little to do with this article by Mr. Mao, so you don't have to worry about the next "Mao Selected Lectures".
The reason why I think of this article by Mr. Mao is really related to a film by Paul Verhoeven. After watching that movie, the first thing that comes to mind is the first sentence in Mr. Mao's article: Who is our enemy? Who are our friends? This question is the first question of the revolution.
The reason why I thought of this sentence is actually very simple: first, the story of the movie raised such a question; second, when going to school caught up with the tail of the revolutionary cultural life, Chairman Mao’s writings and quotations were seriously memorized Some, the memories of the early years are always impressive, and they wander out unconsciously. The existence of this second reason shows that I am old, and if you kill a child today, he will not think of Chairman Mao's teachings from Verhoeven's films.
Who is Paul Verhoeven? Say one movie and one person and you'll know, Instinct and Sharon Stone. The director of "Instinct" is this Verhoeven, and Sharon Stone can still make "Instinct 2" today, which has a lot to do with Verhoeven's use of her. It should be noted that at that time, Sister Sha was already thirty-eight years old, but Verhoeven was still discerning beauty. Sister Sha was really sexy, radiant, and seemed like a dead tree in spring; but her acting skills were really mediocre and worth eating. The cost of one's body and appearance is also rapidly disappearing, and "Instinct 2" is a bad example.
This movie reminds me of Chairman Mao's quotations, the name is "Zwartboek", which is Dutch, translated into English as black book, Chinese means "black book", so the name of this movie is translated as "black book" here. Book" or "Black Book of Fear".
The story is about a Jewish female singer in the Netherlands at the end of World War II. The female singer and her family were intercepted by the Nazis while fleeing to the Allied-occupied area in the south of the Netherlands. The female singer narrowly escaped the disaster, but witnessed the whole process of her family being killed and robbed. The female singer who fled back to Amsterdam disguised herself as a non-Jew (dyed blond, even her pubic hair), not only joined the resistance, but also broke into the enemy, becoming the mistress and clerk of a Nazi officer, While working as an underground worker for a resistance organization, he is looking for the truth about the murder of his family. However, the Dutch resistance organization wanted to rescue their captured people and let the female singer help. However, this plan was learned by the spies, and the resistance organization suffered great losses. As a result, both the Nazis and the resistance groups regarded female singers as enemies. The Nazi lover fled with her and went into hiding, waiting for the war to end. The end of the war did not bring her freedom. She was imprisoned by the Dutch as a "traitor". It was the heroic doctor of the resistance organization who rescued her. However, the final finale was beyond the expectations of the female singer, including me. The real spies and murderers are neither the Dutch fake police who eat inside and outside, nor the Nazi lover who controls the life and death of Jews, but the heroic doctor of the resistance organization and the lawyer who helped the Jews escape. And the spy's motive is also very simple. They want to kill themselves and share the blood-stained wealth with the Nazis who carried out the murders. And all the secrets are hidden in the black leather notebook of Mr. Lawyer, which is also the origin of the movie's name.
The people in this film are all "real people" with complex personalities. There is no pure good person, nor pure bad person. The "character combination theory" proposed by Mr. Liu Zaifu has been confirmed in this film once again. The complexity of human nature, good and evil, true and false, beauty and ugliness in human nature, can be considered vividly in this movie, even the old guy like me who has traveled all over the world and is known to read countless people, I sighed a few times after reading it. minute.
The story is a good one, the plot development and joints are well handled, the German actors who are basically unfamiliar acted well, and the messy German and Dutch didn't sound too uncomfortable (I couldn't understand a single sentence anyway). It is said that Verhoeven's film was conceived for nearly 20 years. When Jiang Qing engaged in a model show, it was called "one show in ten years", but compared with Verhoeven's 20 years, it was insignificant; Perhaps because of the 20 years of thinking, the story of this movie is well-crafted, there are no flaws, and it doesn't copy other people's plots, which is really not easy.
It's just that I felt quite worthless for the female singer, so I remembered Chairman Mao's teaching - who is our enemy? Who are our friends? This question is the first question of the revolution. If the female singer solves this problem first, there will be less trouble. Of course, if this is the case, then this movie will not be made, and it is the complex force of this twist and turn that is watched.
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