Comparing the protagonist of the movie with the Spanish conquistador Cortes who created miracles more than a hundred years ago, we can see their similarities and differences.
The similarities are that they have experienced many battles and rich experiences, and they are all typical Spaniards, a Spanish soldier.
The only difference is that one has ambition and the other has no ambition. One is an ambitious conqueror who dares to conquer a country with a few million people and a nation with a few hundred people. In the eyes of the Spanish conquistadors, God is above, I am below, and even the king has to stand aside. And the protagonist of the movie is from the beginning. Tail is just a dog of kings and nobles, and the typical "passionate diaosi",
according to novels, movies and laws, always likes to praise those protagonists who are "comfortable with the status quo and mingle with ordinary people", and despise those who are "ambitious". , a careerist with a single mind to climb up". But this is just a lot of movies and novels to please readers. After all, most of the readers in this world are content with mediocrity and the status quo, and a protagonist of the same type makes them more immersive. I don't believe that you can take stock of the film and television novels in your mind. Is there any protagonist who belongs to the type of ambitious and unscrupulous climbing? Very rarely, even if there is, the director or writer will always give such a careerist protagonist a tragic ending at the end, and then make them regret the beginning and let them beat their chests - why can't I be content with the status quo and mediocrity in the beginning?" Ordinary is true, ordinary is blessing.” Ah. A typical example is "Red and Black".
Is that right? I think it's pure nonsense, and the "plain is a blessing" is just a self-consolation of the losers afterwards. In other words, plainness is a blessing, and this kind of advanced life treatment is not something that diaosi can imagine. Come to think of it, the protagonists in martial arts novels always consider "the ordinary seclusion life" when they are full of great achievements and beauties. It seems that everyone knows that as an ordinary farmer without martial arts, it is impossible to enjoy a "plain seclusion life", only endless taxes and labor.
The protagonist of this movie is such a tragic diaosi man, and his body also reflects the shadow of the decline of the empire.
People usually think that desire is a sin, but I think that things should be viewed dialectically, and desire is the driving force for the progress of human society. The reason why the Spanish Empire was so powerful back then was because there were countless ambitious careerists like Cortés and Pizarro, who were constantly expanding the territory for the empire. Later, the reason why the empire declined was also because of desire. The whole country lost the desire to make progress. On the contrary, the upper class fell into the desire for pleasure, while the lower class, all the diaosi like the protagonists of the movie, became insensitive tools - farming tools and tools of war.
Therefore, a country is like a person, and desires should be below and not above. The mind should be clear and the lower body full of desire. If on the other hand, the lower body is numb and the mind is full of lust and enjoyment, the person is finished.
PS: Another inspiration from this movie is that everyone has to talk about politics, and an adult who doesn't understand politics is like an intellectually underdeveloped child, always acting as a tool for others. If the protagonist understands the general trend of politics, he should find that the decline of the empire is inevitable, and he should resolutely abandon the rotten Catholic faith and the incompetent and shameless king, and take advantage of the east wind of the Thirty Years' War. A famous soldier, but it is still possible to be a small lord, or even a mercenary leader, and get some money to go back to his hometown to get married.
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