This is an adult world, and you have to let go of your ideals at the door.

"This is an adult world. You have to put down your ideals outside the door, just like your rain boots. Thirty years ago, I also had your ideals. I used to be you, and I also faced decisions like you today. I made a decision, I compromised, so I can sit on the legislature and serve the public in a thousand honest ways, you have to face the truth, I did a lot for my state, didn't I?" These are Paine's words to persuade Smith to "be with the light". , Paine did this because he knew that in the face of a huge and complex system, if you want to do things for the people, just relying on justice and conscience is not enough, you must have means, otherwise, you are not even qualified to do things for the people, this is also Zhang Juzheng's perception. After facing the death of his grandfather by the prince of privilege, he understood that "to deal with privilege, there must be greater privilege". So he abandoned pure justice and conscience, obeyed the rules of power, played with the rules, and became the first political person to play with power. Using various means, I have done almost everything I want to do (even if it is not good), but this is much stronger than "you are a good person, but it is useless". Only then can he obtain the reputation of "one man through the ages". . .

Politics, no matter countries, republics or empires. all the same. At most, the question of more democracy and less will not change the pattern dominated by a few elites. . . In this film, the last point is obviously beautified. The real result should be a group of political veterans such as Taylor and Paine to fix it, rather than the last-minute conscience discovery as in the film.

Conscience, how much is morality worth?


"Maybe at the last moment of his life, he doesn't know why he died, and he will never know, in this world, there are many explicit or implicit rules, which must be adapted, principles must be abandoned, and conscience must be abandoned. Be with the light, otherwise, no matter how great your ambitions, how brilliant your ideals, will be annihilated." . . This is what the writer Mingyue said when he commented that Yuan Chonghuan, a military genius in the late Ming Dynasty, was killed because he did not understand the political rules. . And in the film, the secretary told Mr.Smith, "You are a good person and shouldn't be here anymore". . And the beautiful secretary's own words "When I came, my eyes were a blue question mark, and now, it has become a green money mark". , These are the words of a Senate secretary of Congress. I believe this is normal behavior for all people.


I still remember that in "Towards the Republic", En Ming said to Xu Xilin who was about to assassinate him~ "Official circles are battlefields, and politics are massacres. What do you use to fight? Swords, knives, spears, guns, bullets ; What does the officialdom use, use wisdom, conspiracy, and power, never call in the face, stab in the back. If you are timid, don't mix in the officialdom!"
——Enming is worthy of being the "Five Heroes" of the Manchu in the late Qing Dynasty One, with such a thorough understanding of the official culture of the Han nationality for thousands of years, why do you say that people are "Ta slaves"? A nation that grew out of Heishui and Baishan with hundreds of thousands of armored men, a nation that advocates conquest by force, has evolved to play political games and use power to be more powerful than the precocious Han Chinese. The nation is hopelessly degenerate. . .


Movies are just movies; reality is reality.

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