In "Gone with the Wind", the southern manor owner and the slaves get along harmoniously, and the master and servant are deeply in love. Before the Civil War, the owners of the manor lived a happy life with parties and dances all day long, and only for the sake of love. After returning home in distress and embarrassment, the young ladies who were originally well-dressed and spoiled, had to do farm work and live a tight life. In "Doctor Zhivago", before the civil war (as the characters in the play call the October Revolution), the aristocratic families were warm and happy, lived a prosperous and happy life; , but even the common people did not live much better, and it felt that the whole society was destroyed by the revolution. However, "Doctor Zhivago" does not show the aristocrats' discomfort with the plummeting life, but shows that they have created a new life positively, optimistically and calmly with the virtues of nobility, perseverance and tolerance. On the contrary, the image of the Red Army and the revolutionaries is really bad, cruel, indifferent, impersonal and unreasonable. This reminds me of "Forrest Gump", which reflects the mainstream values of the United States (right and conservative), which portrays left-wing youth as the image of drug addiction, alcoholism, promiscuity, beating women and even wearing Nazi military uniforms, which is a bit too much. . Looking at "Doctor Zhivago" again in 1965, I suddenly realized that during the Cold War, the United States had a very bad impression of the Soviet Red Army.
When I watched "Gone with the Wind", I was still young and didn't think much about it, and my emotions were only tied to the protagonist; but now when I watch "Doctor Zhivago", the logic is a bit ridiculous. It deserves people's sympathy and grievances, so do the revolutionary people want to overthrow the old ruling class because they once lived well? Should they bear the burden of humiliation, be content with poverty, and think that it is natural for the nobles to lead a feasting life, and they should not think about it at all, let alone want to change? The aristocrats in distress are indeed pitiful, but it is even more pitiful that countless commoners have been in distress.
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