Traditional Culture and Modern Civilization

Taya 2022-04-15 08:01:01

The biggest shock to me from this film is my understanding of the Koran and my attitude towards traditional culture and modern civilization. The Quran, the only fundamental classic of Islam, is the belief of the Islamic people, and is extremely important to the Islamic people. Through the video, we can see that Islamic believers will study and recite the Quran, and they will blurt out the content of her, and they will find the answers in the Quran for all things in life, big and small. There was a conflict. When the war involved the marriage of Oda and the princess, what they thought was to let Oda and the princess say three sentences according to the Qur'an: Divorce; when Oda told his father that Nasabi was fully armed and ready, Egypt King Ma told him calmly: Soldiers who built their beliefs on war are not good soldiers; when they called pagans to mine mineral resources, they thought of using bloody wars to obtain "peace", because it represents modern times. Cars, medicine are forbidden by God, they think life is eternal, those are just temporary pleasures.
Some are changing as those old elders question modern technology with anger, and use the ancient Qur'an to argue with new generations like Odah, who have embraced new ideas. When Oda said: The reason why the oil was buried in the ground was that Allah wanted us to live better, King Emma looked at him with thinking eyes; when Prince Ali had been unpopular for a long time because of his support of Western medicine, King Emma said to him: I have been thinking, if God really forbid medicine, why you came into this world. As a representative of traditional thinking, he began to accept new things, believing that they had meaning.
When Oda merged the two families, we saw that he strongly supported the emerging industries represented by oil, and sent his father-in-law to the United States to do diplomatic and trade. And the film also ends with the prosperous appearance of home and everything. Perhaps, this is one of the results of the collision between traditional culture and modern culture in the eyes of the director!
Personally, the result of the collision between traditional culture and modern culture is not only the prosperity of abandoning the old and welcoming the new, but also inheriting the essence of fine culture! Of course, traditional culture must be pedantic and outdated, and there must be some aging that has changed over time, but the things that have been passed down for thousands of years must also have their praiseworthy classics. In today's fast-developing society with materialistic desires, hypocritical and rough money has become the goal that the public is striving for, and indifference is full of people's body and mind. Areas under Nasabi's rule are faintly visible. When the Yankees explained that oil extraction would make Nasabi richer than the King of England, Nasabi's eyes flashed with the color of money; when the tribe was angry and dissatisfied with drowning the miners in oil, Nasabi ignored it; To win over other chiefs and other authorities, Nasabi used watches from "Switzerland" to bribe these "my friends" in his mouth, and when he failed to bribe King Emma's trusted aide, General Hassan, he was put in prison; In order to protect and expand her rights and interests, Nasabi married her daughter to Oda, the son of King Emma, ​​but when Oda began to support King Emma, ​​Nasabi ruthlessly proposed a divorce to her daughter.
Although King Emma, ​​who strongly supports traditional culture, did not lead people to live a prosperous life, his definitions of "love" and "money" are thought-provoking. King Emma said this to Oda: Child, everything you can see in this room is bought with blood and love, but never money, because anything that can be bought with eternal money , are not really good value! In the film, King Emma's memories of his wife, helping the child to cover the quilt in the middle of the night, comforting the horse that was smashed to the feet by the sand and gravel, and helping it to remove the gravel and other scenes like a father, made me love such a man, The flesh-and-blood leader is awe-inspiring, at least he won't bribe, at least he really serves the people, even if it's just a wall between neighbors, at least he's good at giving advice. Of course, he also has deep views on the "Yankees" represented by oil exploration. Emma said fiercely to Oda on the battlefield: These people will settle down, multiply, bring more and more Yankees, and they will build more oil wells, because greed is a bottomless abyss , They regard wealth as their fate and are extremely greedy. Even if they leave one day, in the end, we probably don't know who we are. Perhaps this is the panic of a weak race against a hegemonic race, worried that its resources will be exhausted by another race, that its national identity will be wiped out by another race, and that its belief in Allah will be violated. But in my opinion, it is more of a panic about human greed. Yes, wealth is the basic guarantee for the prosperity of our lives, but how many people are chased by life because of the pursuit of wealth, and how many people with high status, wives and milk groups, bright appearance, but live a restless life , How many people do not chase after love, just because of lack of material, lack of time, lack of energy, the most important thing is leftover men, leftover women and even Invincible King Kong. However, a series of issues such as how to control greed, how to ensure material standards when promoting the pursuit of quality life, how to coordinate natural resources and sustainable development when a country needs to grow and develop, etc., were also left with the death of King Emma. Audience, it is worth mentioning that King Emma also reminded us before his death that schools and libraries cannot solve all problems.
This film brought me reflection and love. Although the film ends with the harmony of Oda, the princess and the unborn little nobleman, there is still a kind of regretful feeling in my heart. The prince rescued the princess, and then they lived happily together, which is often the end of fairy tales. When the girl from Zamira galloped side by side with the prince, their breath was so fascinating that they wanted to The married Prince Oda married her. However, marriage comes as soon as you say it, and leaves as soon as you say it. Some people are destined to stay in their hearts because the timing is not right. The girl of Zamira, as if an angel had completed her mission, left behind a long-awaited halo: maybe we will meet again, it should be in the desert, maybe in the Zamira tribe. In our place where men farm and women weave, fish and water are deeply in love. We believe that two benefits can be gained by cooperation, and two harms can be obtained by dividing. when they are meet, they are everything, alone they are nothing. In this way, the director left me with infinite reverie for the judges.

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Day of the Falcon quotes

  • Prince Auda: If Allah had not wanted the oil for the Arabs, why did he put it in their soil?

  • Sultan Amar: Truth and courage should be the stars a man sets his course by. Now oil and money rule they world.