In 2000, when I was a senior in my senior year, on a sunny afternoon, I watched it in the school's video hall and it seemed like an old friend was coming. Because it was a newly opened video room in the afternoon, there was only me, two female classmates in the same class, and a male classmate I didn't know.
We happily went to the video that day because of Richard Gere. At the beginning, we talked and laughed, but when we saw about a third of the place, we no longer whispered, but each sighed and burst into tears. Yes, this is the movie I shed the most tears, I can't stop being sad, and the sound of two female classmates sucking and sucking has been heard in my ears. Finally we walked out of the video room with red eyes, embarrassed smiles and confetti on our faces.
I have never rewatched this film, and I only vaguely remember that Richard Gere met a man who looked like him in the army, and the two became good friends. The man told him all about his life, his love, and everything about his hometown. After his unfortunate death, Richard Gere pretended to be his identity and came to his hometown to have his family and lover. The good life made Richard Gere regain his expectations for life. He became a new person in his impostor hometown, won the trust and support of the villagers, and won the love of his wife. All is well, but is broken by those who come to arrest him. It's not the real him that they're going to arrest, but the one he's impersonating. Faced with such a situation, as long as he tells the truth and confesses his identity, he will not face hanging. And if he tells the truth, he becomes a complete liar. And his lover, in fact, had already discovered that he was not his unsympathetic husband. In the end, he chose to hide the truth and was hanged.
I remember that the story did not explain his own life, but he was able to choose someone else's life without hesitation, and when he chose, he was not sure whether the life he was about to face was good or bad. I guess he must have been very unbearable before. Taking the place of others' lives, gaining love and support, but also bearing the sins of others. He would rather give up his life to protect everything he has already got, and it is conceivable how precious this time is to him.
I was moved by his efforts to want a new life. I was moved by what he did for his fellow villagers and loved ones. I was moved by his willingness to have spiritual beliefs at the expense of his life. I'm also sad that the heroine got a new husband and lost it right away.
The background of the film should be the war years, but I have forgotten it for too long. And the choice of each character in the big background should have the imprint of the times, I don't have an in-depth understanding of these, so I can't comment. What impressed me most was the loss and gain told in the story of the film, and how to make choices in the face of loss and gain. And in front of each choice, there are two results of loss and gain at the same time.
I haven't paid much attention to Richard Gere in recent years, so I learned that he was banned from China for a long time because he was a supporter of Tibetan independence. The past ten years have been an era of rapid development of domestic films, so this has become the result of his choice, a loss and a gain.
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