After watching the movie "Ace Vs Ace", I couldn't help but think of Wu Zixu, the man who started the war between Wu and Chu in order to avenge his father.
For a long time, I have been confused: Wu Zixu, in order to avenge the revenge of the king of Chu for killing his father and brother, joined the state of Wu, and used the state of Wu to attack Chu to achieve the purpose of revenge. Happy and grudge, but is it too much to do so?
Later, reading "Records of the Grand Historian - Biography of Wu Zixu", Sima Qian commented with emotion after telling Wu Zixu's story: "Xiang Ling Wu Zixu died from luxury, what difference is it from ants. Abandoning small righteousness is a great shame, and his name will be left to future generations. , sad husband! Fang Zixu is embarrassed on the river, begging for food, how can he forget Ying evil for a moment? So forbearance is famous, how can a non-lie husband do this?"
Later, when I read Mr. Jiang Qing's "Introduction to Spring and Autumn Gongyang Studies", the book talked about the "great revenge" advocated by the Spring and Autumn Gongyang family. The meaning of revenge. In an era of no way in the world, legitimate revenge can rely on its own power to pursue the justice of history, so that human history will not fall into complete injustice and evil due to political disorder. At this time, people are no longer people in a warm relationship, but people who act by naked instinct.
The revenge advocated by the Gongyang family mainly falls into three categories: the first is the revenge of the monarch to revive the monarch to kill his ancestors and the father, the second is the revenge of the individual to restore the monarch to kill the father, and the third is the revenge of the ministers to revive the rebels and thieves to kill the king. Wu Zixu's revenge belongs to the second category. The situation at the time was that if he did not take revenge himself, his father Wu She and brother Wu Shang would have been killed by King Chuping for no reason. If he was not so witty, he himself would have been trapped and killed by King Chu Ping, and no one would uphold justice for him and oppress King Chu Ping who innocently killed his father and his minister Fei Wuji (called Fei Wuji in "Zuo Zhuan"). The judgment seat of history. At this time, the revenge of the individual Fuguojun for killing his father became the only choice for justice for himself. In addition, the war at that time was only limited to the war between nobles, the scale was small, and it had little impact on the civilians of Chu State. The real war of all people was a matter of the Warring States Period.
The Master said: "The ruler entrusts his ministers with propriety, and the ministers serve the ruler with loyalty." In Confucius' view, loyalty to the ruler and patriotism is not unconditional, not servile-style ignorance, but aristocratic and conditional. When Adolf Hitler launched World War II, the admiration of the Germans for him could be said to be maddening across the country. The movie "Stauffenberg" tells us that the protagonist Stauffenberg planned and implemented the assassination of Hitler. Although it was unsuccessful, he told the world with his actions: "In Germany, not everyone is Hitler."
Taking the examples of Wu Zixu and Stauffenberg, I want to say that when a person who has been wronged faces a gang of thugs who have wronged him, the most bloody way to do it is to resist and find justice for himself.
In the movie "The Negotiator (The Negotiator, Negotiator)", if the protagonist negotiator Danny (Danny) does not resist, he will face jail or even be silenced; if he resists, he will face Against the state machine alone, the probability of success is too small. Naturally, the troubled Danny chose the latter and chose a one-man war. His opponents were his leaders, colleagues, and former friends.
The narrative of the entire film is very catchy, and the opposite scenes between male No. 1 Samuel L. Jackson and male No. 2 Kevin Spacey are very exciting. In the film, Sabian says to Danny's fellow police officers: "You guys in the room all claim to be his friend, but you all want to kill him, and it's just me, a stranger. I want to save him!" This sentence broke through the greed and selfish nature of human nature.
We also saw that there was a sniper in the film, he had already aimed at Danny, but he couldn't make a shot, and was later relieved of the task by his boss, which showed us the kind side of human nature. You see, human nature is so complicated and so real.
While writing these words, I thought, if I put myself into the plight of Wu Zixu, Stauffenberg and Danny, what would I choose if I were them instead? Like a trivial ant, it is likely to be easily trampled to death - neither courage nor wisdom. Therefore, using Wu Zixu and the others as mirrors, I showed my inner humility, weakness and fear, which made me feel full of emotion.
So, what about you instead? Will you be as cowardly as me?
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