The fat Moore's image is always disheveled and sloppy, the famous leftist The picture looks so out of place when he chats with the well-dressed members of the Congress at the entrance of the Congress. If you don't read the previous part, you will feel that this character is always fighting against the leader of this wealthy and free great power. He must be outraged by society because of his bad mix. Well, so the lawmakers smiled politely at his proposal to "if you support the Iraq war, send your own children to the battlefield to support the war."
It has been 8 years since 9/11, and the death of the twin towers of Iraq, Guantanamo, Afghanistan, which is far away from us, has now become a vague number. History is a grand narrative. Only movies and novels favor detail rendering and plot description. Why? Art.
Don't know what to do with a tiny individual? Optimistic like the mother who sent her child to join the army and planted the flag at the door of her house every day, one day she will collapse after receiving a call from the Ministry of Defense, and pessimistic like the old woman in Baghdad, crying and cursing in front of the ruins of her uncle's house: "You let me I have had six funerals! Allah will save us and give you blood for blood!"
When the wheel of history rolls over, those who block its movement and those who push it may be shattered. I think the only certainty is that the latter may be less likely. The question is, as small as me, at most a speck of dust on the side of the wheel, how to judge the direction of the wheel? You can't even tell if it's going forward or backward.
Watching this documentary makes me feel that as individuals, ignorance is inevitable, and the degree of ignorance depends on the height of your vision and how awake you are. The last paragraph really struck me: "The people who live in the worst parts of the city, go to the worst schools, have the hardest life, but they're always the first to stand up to defend the people that make them suffer. The system of suffering. They go to serve so we don't have to go, and they are willing to give their lives and let us be free." Why did they defend, why did they want to? Because there is a powerful and repeating voice telling them that this is a noble opportunity that will give them a better life. But who proves that? It is difficult for us to ask the answer, because it is too small for us to have the wisdom to accurately reverse the "present" from the "future", we are just like ants working hard and blindly carrying the soil of today.
Another feeling is that if you want to live a less miserable life, you have to desperately find something to believe, something that won't fall apart in our lifetime. Trust the President? He sends you to battle. Believe that news reports reveal objectivity? The host said, "Do I have a tendency? Damn I certainly have a tendency!" Believe in yourself? Children who go to war don't want to die. I'm glad I wasn't born sixty years ago. I kind of like to believe in 2012.
Both optimism and pessimism will encounter unexpected blows, which is inherently pessimistic. Or our ancestors were wise, "comfortable, frustrated"----look at everything that happens as an objective phenomenon, to be an optimistic person does not need to be too sober.
The film ends with a speech by George Orwell. I think Moore or Orwell, they may be smart, but certainly not happy. "The purpose of the war is not to win over Eurasia or East Asia, but to maintain the current social structure." Playing the grand narrative again. Tell us what to do.
Maybe this? "It's all good, the fight is over. He beats himself. He loves Big Brother."
Happy ending.
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