Thoughts brought by the film:
1. As a reporter, if you are fortunate enough to be on the battlefield, what path will you choose to practice your ideals?
American journalist Edgar Snow conducted an on-the-spot interview in the revolutionary base area of Northwest my country. As a Western journalist, he made an objective evaluation of the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese revolution, and made a fair report to the world - "Red Star Shines on China" , famous all over the world.
And Hooke is also a journalist, a journalist who graduated from Oxford University in the United Kingdom. In his own words, he has traveled across the ocean and across most of the world to a cruel and dangerous battlefield. He came with lofty ideals. And he gave up his original intention (reporting the war truthfully and fulfilling his ideal as a journalist), and finally chose another path (carrying out humanitarian aid to children persecuted by the war).
It is difficult for us to compare which of the two journalists has done more meaningful things, but what is more valuable about Hok is that he, a seemingly ordinary person, has created a history that is extremely extraordinary at that time, now and even in the future. , He Ke may not have thought about the great significance of what he did, and for this reason, he also gave up the honor of being a reporter that he might have obtained, and he used his life to practice his inner pursuit of goodness. That idealism was his greatest strength in the bitter sea of war. He is destined not to be forgotten by history, because "in him shines the radiance of eternal humanity."
2 The powerful spiritual force of idealism:
Hok was a pacifist (his mother and Gandhi were friends). So he did not want the children he took care of to follow Chen Hanjiang on the road of revenge war. Therefore, even in the face of Japanese scouts who threatened the lives of himself and his children, he did not want to kill them, much less let the hands of the children he cared for have blood on their hands.
He Ke is an idealist, which is what supports him to lead more than 60 orphans on foot, along the ancient Silk Road to Shandan, Gansu Province, thousands of miles away; he has been sharing weal and woe with the children he rescued and even donating Life is also a source of strength without regrets. It's like what one of the elderly "orphans" in the end credits recalls saying: He (Hok) is like a god, everyone has flaws, but I feel like he's perfect. This is the child's perspective. Movies are movies after all, and we can't restore a real Hok. But his lofty qualities and strong spiritual strength are worthy of our eternal memory.
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