What I have to mention is that this movie has done a decent job, introducing the situation in which Jews were discriminated against in Europe at the beginning of the film. That statement corrects the point of view in anti-Semitic sensationalism, and is very close to the introduction in serious historical research. At that time, Jews could not own land in Europe and could not enter many jobs that Christians can only enter. And the Christian Bible expresses disdain for charging interest on borrowing. Jews who cannot engage in agriculture, participate in wars, and do many things have no other living space, but can only engage in the despised lending industry. The industry that Jews are engaged in is basically the embryonic form of the current financial industry. However, the bankers of the year were not regarded as social elites, but were regarded as street rats. Precisely because they are ostracized and prejudiced by society. Unexpectedly, with the changes in the European economic structure and the development of modern capitalism, more and more people need to borrow to engage in industrial and commercial activities. Those European aristocrats who despise borrowing have to rely more on Jews for capital lending. Instead of being economically suppressed as Jews, they were allowed to develop unexpectedly.
In contrast, the European aristocrats in those days thought they were more noble than the Jews, so they did not treat others like people. Tall ass, the movie says so. In order to tie up the rich woman, Xiaobailian did not hesitate to take the life of her friend as a mortgage. On the contrary, Sherlock was telling the truth. You asked me to borrow money just to satisfy your own desires, so pretend to be serious. Although Sherlock shouldn't kill the other party, Xiaobai put his face on the rich woman and immediately came back to smash people with money, thinking that money can buy anything? Just look like a nouveau riche.
Check out this line from Sherlock:
To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else,
it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and
hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses,
mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains
, cooled my friends, heated mine
enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath
not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs,
dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with
the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject
to the same diseases, healed by the same means,
warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as
a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?
if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison
us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not
revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will
resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian,
what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian
wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by
Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany you
teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I
will better the instruction.
Except for the last paragraph, in modern society, this It is a declaration demanding equality of human rights. Looking at the situation Sherlock suffered, he was just a Chinese migrant worker in the city. However, migrant workers live in different times, and it is difficult for them to find an industry like the financial industry that can quickly develop themselves.
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