"If we can have the courage to reveal the truth of history, it is possible to face the truth of reality." Ken Loach said.
The film, set against the backdrop of Northern Ireland's resistance to British rule in 1920, was criticized by the British media as: describing the embryonic form of the Irish Republican Army and insinuatingly condemning the current British government's dispatch of troops to Iraq. Director Rocky himself believes that such a film is just a small step to allow more Chinese people to reflect on the history of the British Empire's power. The tragedy. Now I don't need to tell you which country the British army has illegally occupied now, and I don't need to tell you the casualties and inhuman events that are taking place there."
The film about the story of the Irish War of Independence has been brewing in Rocky's mind. for a long time. In "The Wind Blows", a medical student, Damir, and his brother Teddy, and their friend Dan, give up their lives to join the underground armed struggle against British rule.
Damir, a medical student who used to only quarrel in college, can't shoot or kill, has gradually matured in the struggle of resistance. The task of executing the enemy and traitor (a companion he had seen growing up) in a panic, was his baptism on the road of revolution, and for him, resistance was the road of no return. Either fail and surrender, or resist to the end, there is no third middle way. And his older brother Teddy, who he once regarded as an idol with infinite reverence and an extremely strong and brave Irish Republican Army soldier, chose to abandon the original revolutionary ideal of fighting for freedom and independence, and accepted the peace negotiation agreement granted by the United Kingdom to Ireland with limited autonomy (Anglo-Irish agreement), and became the leader of the new Irish government army. When my brother represented the new government to suppress the resistance forces that still demanded freedom and independence, there was no third way between Damir who insisted on resisting and his brother, either you died or I lived. In Damir's view, the so-called peace agreement is nothing but a rape of the Revolutionary War. He is unwilling to betray the revolution and those who have given their lives for the revolution. He is unwilling to be a fellow traitor who shot and killed himself But in the end, he became a shameless traitor, and Damir, who was unwilling to yield, died at the gunpoint of his brother.
The fraternal struggle between freedom and resistance, or peace and compromise, this is an eternal proposition of the world revolution.
Let’s take a look at the fraternal struggle between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, from fighting side by side in the Northern Expedition, to the April 12 massacre, from the unanimity of the Anti-Japanese War, to the life and death of the war of liberation.
Look at war-torn Palestine. The PLO (Fatah) has fought enough to negotiate peace with Israel, but Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement) is relentless and insists on jihad to the end. Fatah and Hamas are brothers who killed themselves for the Gaza Strip.
In fact, Damir's friend Dan, the railway worker, is Damir's real spiritual mentor, (Dan is the real working proletariat, people say that the proletariat is the most thorough revolutionary, Damir is under his guidance The real revolutionary road and become a real revolutionary) Dan's sacrifice made Damir unrepentant for his choice.
Damir died, he did not die heroically, but he was so heroic.
Before his execution, he seemed to have a little bit of fear, he didn't even chanted a slogan such as "Long Live Freedom", (in the revolutionary films we saw, the Communist Party of the Revolution had to habitually shout such a sentence, even A When Q died, he shouted another hero after 20 years). And his heroism is infecting you silently. The scene where Damir wrote a suicide note to his lover before his execution made me cry. He was involved in a war that he did not want to be involved in but had to be involved in.
Damir died, but the resistance of the Irish Republican Army did not die out. The issue of Northern Ireland has always been a concern of the British government. (It seems that in recent years, the Northern Ireland issue has calmed down and the British and IRA have completely ceased fire.)
The guerrilla war of the heroic Celtic people, is green. Those Irish Republican Army soldiers in plaid suits, or handsome trench coats, with peaked caps on their heads and guns in their hands, shuttled through the green fields to resist the British army. A peaceful atmosphere, and the sound of gunshots resounding in the layers of wheat waves, may be even more thrilling. There was the cradle of British rock and roll, and there was a band called U2.
It was almost the same era (later) that our heroic Chinese people also fought guerrilla warfare. It's just that the guerrilla wars in our impression are all peasants wearing white lamb belly towels, digging trenches, digging tunnels, and fighting devils. Our guerrilla warfare is full of the smell of loess. Therefore, out of Huangshi Gaopo, it is the cradle of Chinese rock music.
Talk to the director. I like the director of the left-wing stance.
Ken Lodge, who publicly used Marxist theory as the basic argument, criticized Mrs. Thatcher's ruling ideology, and sympathized with the injustices encountered by the working class in capitalist society. He devotes his passion to exposing and changing socio-political issues in dramatic ways.
Rocky's 1966 TV series "C a th y Come Home" (C a th y C ome Home), using the reality of street life and the impact of bureaucracy on people's family life as an entry point, reveals the late 1960s. The complacency on the surface of society, the affluence and the social stratification behind the post-Beetle "colorful" culture, and the enormous pressure of recurring social problems. The program attracted great attention from all walks of life and government councils at that time, and eventually prompted the government to implement a housing charity project to solve the serious social problem of street homelessness. And this makes Rocky fully aware of the powerful role of the media in society.
By the 1980s, the TV series had been insufficient to fully express Rocky's political views and ideals, and he turned to filming documentaries. He believes that non-story-based documentaries can more directly and effectively express the social and political issues that exist in daily life. During Thatcher's Conservative years, however, Lodge's sharply left-wing political views were suppressed - his shows were banned. Among them, "Which Side Are You On?", a documentary about the various social reactions to the miners' strike, is included. It is precisely because of the ban of this work that Rocky has since left the television industry.
After the 1990s, Lodge ventured into the film industry and continued to become one of Britain's foremost film directors with his sharp political awareness. Although not mainstream or commercial, his consistent themes against social oppression, dehumanization, and hypocritical politics still appeal to the masses. And his creative principle of speaking for little people has won wide respect. Hidden Agenda, the 1990 Cannes Jury Prize winner, was about politics; Raining Stones was about social issues; Name Is Joe), exposed the growing problem of drug and alcohol abuse in British society.
At the 63rd Cannes Film Festival, one of his new films miraculously entered the competition unit at the last moment.
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