Fifteen years later, the two little princes have grown up, the eldest prince likes to ride and shoot, and the little prince Oda likes to read. Like the ancient Arabs, they have their own beliefs and continue their traditional lives. At this time, the old king (the victorious country of the year) was struggling with how to make his country strong, because his land was desert, lacking water, and he couldn't grow crops, and he couldn't even trade because of the inconvenience of transportation. At this time, the staff of an oil company in the United States came to this land, and they told the old king that there was oil in the place called "Golden King", and the oil could be exchanged for dollars. So the old king asked Americans to drill for oil, and his country quickly became rich.
The king of another country can't stand it anymore, because he swore before that this land does not belong to any country, and now the other party is actually mining oil. The two countries were at odds over the matter. At this time, the eldest prince, who was a hostage, was killed when he tried to escape and return to the country. The old king accepted the weak little prince as his son-in-law.
Prince Oda returned to his homeland as an envoy to persuade his father not to start a war. When he returned to China, he found that his father, including all the ministers, were inflexible stubborn men. They were all fanatical Muslims, and all their codes of conduct were based on the Koran. They completely rejected foreign cultures and believed that That is the devil. They clamored for war.
At this time, the old king used his wealth to buy off some other tribes around. Prince Oda's father's take on this is that nothing money can buy is the most precious, but only love and faith can last forever.
Aoda's father asked Aoda to take hundreds of death row prisoners across the desert (in the film is the house of Allah, it is a land of death), Aoda led his troops to advance in the desert not only to fight but also to overcome some deadly difficulties . (This part of the play is the best), although Oda is weak, but he is strong and full of wisdom, he won the respect of the people and conquered the tribes in the south.
The old king sent all the people to deal with Oda in the desert, and Oda's father led the army to the city of the old king, and the old king conceded defeat when he was powerless to resist. At this time Oda also brought his men and horses to reunite with his father.
Oda's father asked Oda to put away the tools used by the Americans to extract oil, and never allow oil to be extracted here, because he was afraid that more and more pagans would come to this place in the future to change them. Oda disagreed with his father, who was shot and killed during an argument. The death of Oda's father represented the death of a stubborn faction. Oda took over two kingdoms and became the new king, he was not mercenary like the old king, also believed in love and faith, but not stubborn like his father, he found a balance in the middle and put his country Govern better.
I think the director not only wants to express the struggle for power and interests, he also wants to express that the estrangement between religion and culture is the main reason for people's war, and this contradiction cannot be reconciled. , which completes the story. At the end of the play, it can be seen that the Western world is indeed ambitious for the Arab world. They want to find a balance, but can they really do it?
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