In literary and artistic works, there is a kind of stress, which is called seeing the big from the small. When the movie is talking about evacuating the masses, it is actually talking about this management system, this society, and the hero who shed his blood for the people.
There are a few very typical characters in this movie:
The female boss known as "Mom". The leader of an area, judging from the introductions of others and her initial reaction, she is a person with "original intentions", decisive and ruthless in her career. She is the one who can refresh a city in twenty years, stop immediately to hear a plumber's warning in the midst of a carnival, and bring department heads together for an emergency meeting. It's just that after she came to power, she no longer represented the interests of the masses, so she gave up more than 800 lives. She is only the "mother" of the officialdom, not the "mother" of the masses.
The head of various government agencies in the city. The fly camp dog Gou is mainly a government official for personal gain. I usually try my best to make money, but trouble comes to shirk responsibility. They are selfish, greedy and vicious. They are tools for making money when the masses need them, public facilities on the street when they don’t need them, and hot potatoes to throw away when they cause trouble. Typical of corruption.
Residents in dangerous buildings. The working people at the bottom of society. They are the direct victims of the collapse of the building, and they are also the most ignorant of the bunch. The social class and the limitations of life hinder their cognition, and they are the only ones in the whole film who do not know that the building is about to fall. They only know how to live in the moment. Some people say that the building is going to collapse, and they come out. Some people say that they have been cheated, and they go back. They don't even confirm the cracks themselves, and they have no ability to think. There is also a type of person among them, that is, a man with a tattoo. He asked for money at the beginning of domestic violence, and at the end took the lead in beating the male protagonist. This kind of person is similar to today's keyboard warriors. He also has no ability to think. He only knows how to yell in the crowd according to his own preferences.
male lead. They are people like Qu Yuan, Tan Sitong, Sun Yat-sen, and Lu Xun who want to wake up the society, and hope to contribute their own strength to save the people from water and fire. They would also be shouting in crowds, but thoughtful, well-founded shouting. It's just that the reforms they want touch the interests of the ruling class, and they cannot be accepted by the people at the bottom (such as moving out of a building that is about to collapse), so they are often rejected by both sides.
There have been too many people like male protagonists throughout the ages. Maybe they didn't have the world in their hearts, or maybe it was just a momentary sense of responsibility that made them "retrograde" in the whole society and public perception. Among them, many people do not have a good ending, but time and reality will justify their names.
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