I don't ever want to see you again
"If we dare to speak the truth of history, then we dare to speak the truth of today"
"It's easy to know what you're against, quite another to know what you are for."
Against the background of the British and Irish revolutions of the past century, between countries, between people: showing the vivid and concrete revolutionary process. The lush green fields, the swaying wheat waves, and the beautiful Irish ballads are wrapped in a lively scene, but there is a cruel struggle, full of oppression and resistance, blood and killing never stop. revolution? Who's life to fight, how to make a revolution, and what to do after the revolution: what to resist is easy to find, and what to pursue is difficult to define - idealism and realism, radical nationalism and eclectic conservatism: fierce contradictions and conflicts arise, Destruction and rebirth - repeated cycles and reincarnations, alternately changing, the leading hand is not the other, but everyone who lives in it, people's beliefs and humanity itself
Core: You were originally a medical school graduate, bought a one-way ticket to London, the best hospital in the world, became the best doctor, saved the wounded, and you were involved in revolution and war, and became a trial with guns By. In the courts, trial of loan sharks, disagreements arise: Conservatives use their power to buy weapons, don't want to be so radical, and you think that just changes the accent of the ruler and the color of the flag, what's the point? The treaty is signed, eclectic conservatives and radical democrats go to opposite ends: the contradiction reaches its extreme: civil war and bloodshed begin. When your little boy betrayed you, became a spy, you shot and executed, when you parted ways with your brother, blood between brothers began - your brother shot and took your life. Why are you reluctant to say where the arsenal is? For that so-called belief? I don't think so, I think it's more about revenge, let your brother experience the pain of the soul that you once experienced - after he gets rid of the madness of the revolution and regains his sense, he will feel guilty for it for the rest of his life and suffer for it. torment
The people in the revolution are specific to each individual: every living person with independent thinking: every revolutionary initially has a clear purpose and ideal pursuit, in their eyes, their own must be correct, holding high the banner of justice, What about the other party? The other party also thinks he is right. He also held high the banner of justice, and in the end it became the appearance of disgust and hatred? Every individual who enters into political activities and is in the political whirlpool is torn apart again and again, and tangled again and again: constantly struggling: should he insist on that idealism or choose a certain degree of compromise? What is the state machine of violence, and who should control it? Crying for freedom, equality and equal rights, and pursuing national independence and sovereign autonomy, is it just changing the national flag and name or tearing it down and rebuilding, not to mention, do you have enough strength and courage? Would it be better to start over? Life and judgment, what is the belief, can the elder brother execute the younger brother, is such a belief really so important and meaningful? This is the director's entanglement and every audience's entanglement
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Great Argument: Damien vs.
If we ratify this treaty, all we're changing is the accents of the powerful and the colour of the flag
it's too late. Teddy. You can't see it. You really can't see it. John Bull has got his hand down your pants, his fist round your bollocks. This treaty, Teddy, this treaty makes you a servant of the British Empire. You have wrapped yourself in the fucking Union Jack.
The butcher's apron, boy.
Wonderful Conversation: Damjen and British General in the Cell:
-What's your name?
I am…am a number of the Irish Republican Army. I demand to be treated as a political prisoner.
—You're a murdering gangster who shoots men in the back.
No, you're wrong. I'm a Democrat. In the last election, Sinn Fein won 73 seats out of a posiible 105. Our mandate's for an Irish Republic separate from Great Britain. A democratic decision.
——That is not my responsibility. I'm just a soldier sent by my government.
Your government, which suppresses our parliament, which bans our paper. Your presence here is a crime, a foreign occupation. Tell me what I'm supposed to do. Turn the other cheek for anonther 700 years?
—That is not my responsibility.
Get out of my country. Get out of my country.
Damien's suicide note:
Dear Sinead. I tried not to get into this war. And did. And now try to get out and can't. Strange creatures we are, even to ourselves. I treasure every bit of you, body and soul, in these last few moments. You once said you wanted your children to taste freedom. I pray for that day, too, Sinead. But I fear it will be longer than either of us have imagined. Dan once told me something I've struggled with all this time .He said,It's easy to know what you're against,quite another to know what you are for.I think now,I know,and it gives me strength.In time,look after Teddy.I'm afraid,inside,he's already dead. As the clock ticks on, I imagine your heartbeat under my hand. I hold the medal you hung around my neck and I tremble inside. It will give you courage, too. Goodbye, Sinead. I love you now, and always will.
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