2006, Sean Slovo fulfilled the old man's wish after the tenth anniversary of his father's death: the American film "Catch a Fire" written by her and directed by Philip Noyce, a true reproduction of Patrick •Chamso was forced to Liangshan, setting off a historical picture of the black storm of anti-racism.
The film uses flashbacks to describe Chamso, who immigrated to South Africa from Mozambique with her father since childhood. In the apartheid and depressing environment, Chamso clenched her teeth, and she finally had a story in the early 1980s. A happy family: a car, a house, a beautiful wife and two lovely daughters, and his personal career is also on the rise. He was promoted to the foreman of the Secunda oil refinery.
For all this, he has since set foot in South Africa. The land began to remind himself: to be low-key and work hard; for the happiness of the family, seeing the African brothers being shot and killed in front of his eyes, he could only shed tears of fear; he turned a blind eye to the turbulent human rights struggle, and spent his spare time training A youth football team.
The co-worker used the white-only toilet once in a while, and if it wasn't for Chamso's good words, he would have been in a disaster----the co-worker was full of anger: "He called me a shameless bitch!"
Someone advised: "Your wife is pregnant, if you are caught If she gets caught and loses her job, what will she do? Think about it!”
Think about it, just because her mother listened to the ANC radio station, Chamso half threatened and half sarcastically said to buy a ticket to send her mother to Mozambique to accept it” "Spear of the Nation" for military training in order to return to liberate South Africa!
In June 1981, Chamso was wronged for a bombing case and was tortured by the police for half a year. To make matters worse, the wife was also involved and tortured. The brutality and shamelessness of the racists angered Chamsoe, and the dream of entering the middle class by honest labor and duty was originally a mirage: as long as the apartheid system exists, freedom, equality and a happy life are just nonsense.
In order to put an end to the tragic and humiliating situation of 25 million blacks being brutally oppressed by more than 3 million whites, Chamsoe abandoned his family and joined the "spear of the nation" -----
Apartheid is an Afrikaans word, meaning to distinguish isolation. The Afrikaans regime used the term as the official name for its racially discriminatory policies: starting with the Aboriginal Lands Act of 1913 and reaching its climax when the predominantly Dutch National Party came to power in 1948. Authorities issued a series of decrees, and South African residents were officially divided into white, black, coloured and Asian people, and people of different races lived in different regions and received different educations. Black people with the lowest status were segregated and lived in designated places. They were not allowed to marry whites, drink alcohol, live in the same place, share a room, study in the same school, go to the same hospital for medical treatment, and were not allowed to use the same public facilities and places.
From birth to the grave, skin color determines everything.
On March 21, 1960, Africans in the town of Sharpeville, Transvaal, South Africa held a large-scale demonstration against the "pass law" implemented by the authorities for racial discrimination. They were brutally suppressed and more than 70 Africans were killed. , more than 200 people were injured. The Sharpeville massacre that shocked the world awakened the leaders of the ANC who pursued non-violence. Mandela founded the ANC military organization "Spear of the Nation" in November 1961, advocating limited violence, and the targets of attacks were mainly those with Clear apartheid markers and targets of significant economic value against terrorist activity against individuals.
The human rights struggle of Africans in South Africa has won widespread sympathy and support around the world. The United Nations General Assembly issued a declaration in 1970, strongly condemning the criminal apartheid policy, deeming it a crime against the conscience and dignity of human beings, and like Nazism, it violated the principles of the "United Nations Charter". South Africa has been hit by various economic sanctions and has fallen into unprecedented isolation in the international community.
Even an honest man like Chamso, who is cautious, indifferent to the world, and humbled when he sees white people, can't bear it
. The Kunda Refinery is produced, and it is logical to become the preferred target of the "Spear of the Nation". After training in Mozambique, Patrick was sentenced to 24 years in prison for blowing up the Secunda refinery. The huge explosion that caused a sensation in South Africa greatly inspired the determination of Africans to resist violence with violence, and the black storm of anti-racism intensified.
Under enormous pressure at home and abroad, on February 11, 1990, the South African authorities were forced to unconditionally release Mandela, opening the door to the ultimate realization of national reconciliation and the implementation of a free and equal democratic system.
After months of tough negotiations, the crew of "Rise Up" was allowed to shoot on-site at the Secunda refinery. Producer Robin is the sister of screenwriter Slovo. In addition to their famous father, mother Ruth Foster, an anti-apartheid activist, died in a mail bomb sent by South African agents. The sisters dedicate the film to their fathers and warriors like Chamsoe who fought for freedom.
Chamsoe served ten years in Robben Island prison before being freed in 1991. In prison, under Mandela's teaching, he understood that tolerance and understanding are better than revenge, and that whites and blacks should join hands to build a better South Africa. Currently, he and his wife run a "Two Sisters Orphanage" in a small town in northeastern South Africa, and he loves football and is training some talented teenagers: "We will keep working hard. Before the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, these boys At least one of them will make it to the national team."
The "Spear of the Nation" contributed a lot to overturning the dark system of apartheid. Gandhi's non-violent non-cooperativeism, which originated in South Africa, finally came to fruition in India, because the British colonial authorities and the South African authorities who implemented apartheid policies were different: the former was obviously more civilized than the latter. Using bombs to wake up stubborn racists and force them to admit that freedom and equality are natural human rights is a helpless and effective auxiliary strategy.
2008 is the year of the U.S. presidential election, and a public advertisement funded by the government that is deeply in his memory still shocked, alerted and moved the scholar Xu Gang: Filling the whole picture are unarmed civilian men and women of different skin colors and clothing. , was driven, beaten, and tortured by heavily armed police. The voiceover is deep bass: "In these parts of the world, people are going through such hardships and struggles to be able to vote - and tomorrow, you can vote by just crossing the street. Remember: vote tomorrow!"
Go to vote tomorrow: if the sky is in love, the sky is also old! I hope to rise up and force Liangshan to become a memory forever. Democratic election is the least bad system to guarantee freedom and equality, and it is also the peak that human political wisdom can currently reach.
For freedom, human beings have shed too much blood: those flowers that should not wither, exude a long-lasting fragrance, because the life that pursues freedom emits the most splendid brilliance in the universe.
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