tap dance? Simple and cheerful Irish music? Also, the Irish Republican Army.
This is a beautiful land, and the people here are hardworking, tenacious, simple, and happy. This is a sad land, where enslavement, wars, turmoil, and life and death are constantly being staged in this land.
As a British colony, Ireland has endured hundreds of years of slavery. The people have been trampled at will, and resistance has continued, such as William Wallace, such as Rob Roy. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the independence movement of the Irish people became more and more intense, forcing the United Kingdom to finally sign an agreement to declare the southern part of Ireland a free state with self-government but still belonging to British territory, with allegiance to the British royal family.
They were brothers who couldn't stand the trampling of their homeland, fought in the war for independence, and fought side by side until the peace deal was signed. However, after British troops withdrew from Irish territory, the Irish were divided into dissidents in the face of a compromised peace agreement with added threats. Some of the comrades who fought side by side became the army of the Free State, supporting the hard-won peace and independence, while the other parts of the people, who were more eager for complete independence and unwilling to accept this compromise agreement, continued to maintain the Irish Republic. The flag of the army, and so, inevitably, the civil war began.
This is not a big civil war. Ireland is small in size and population, and after many years of the independence war, it is unable to carry out a large-scale civil war. This kind of civil war, on a small scale, is extremely cruel and desperate.
The guns that had just hit the British turned on their compatriots, and the partners who had once fought side by side became enemies in an instant. In the shootout, both sides shot and shouted each other's names, and then the bullets accurately and mercilessly penetrated each other's bodies.
I studied anatomy for five years, and I'm going to be an executioner, hoping Ireland deserves it. He executed the traitor who had sold his troops to the British, a child he had watched grow up. He buried the child next to the church where he had played, then found the child's mother and told her his last words. Mother said: I never want to see you again.
At the end of the film, Teddy, a soldier of the Free State, personally ordered the execution of his brother Damian, who was an Irish Republican, and then gave his brother's suicide note and relics to his brother's wife. She beat Teddy and cried: I don't want to see you again.
This is human suffering, and this kind of suffering is not only in Ireland, since human history has been recorded, but it has also been filled with similar stories. Different political opinions, different ideas, inflated ambitions, religious conflicts, and the scars of history; these seeds are planted in everyone's heart, slowly take root and sprout, bloom into evil flowers, bear hatred, and eventually erupt into killing and war.
I once saw a statistic saying that in the 5,560-year recorded history of mankind, there have been 14,531 large and small wars, and only 329 years were peaceful. In the years after World War II, there were only 26 days without war at all. According to biologists' research, there are only two kinds of creatures in the world that have planned and premeditated killing of their kind; those are, humans and chimpanzees, which are the closest to humans. These are two of the smartest creatures on earth, and I can't comment on what these two creatures do. Perhaps with such a high IQ, so many ideas can arise, and then anger, greed, and delusion arise, and the religions, countries, and races built on these generate various conflicts and chain effects, making hatred broadcast far and wide. And all of this, after thousands of years of cross and entanglement, can no longer be sorted out and can't be sorted out. Every behavior, no matter whether the original intention is good or bad, will eventually lead to new anger and hatred.
Love is innate; it is the nature of every human being. It does not need to be born, and it never dies. Hate is self-generated, old hatred produces new hatred, interlocking and endlessly emerging.
To survive in the world, you don't have to be pessimistic, because there is a lot of love around you; you can't be optimistic, because hate is also everywhere. Struggling between love and hate, this is the world we live in.
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