It's been a long time since I saw such a movie, it made people cry so miserably, but my heart was warm.
I always felt that pride parades was becoming more and more commercialized. In recent years, Eminem has basically been a carnival, with alcohol and fancy clothes everywhere. It's not a protest, it's more like a celebration. After watching the movie, I truly realized that we should be grateful from the time people had to go to the streets to seek their rights and now they can celebrate freely. This change is based on the hard work of those before us. How many rights we are accustomed to now is the same.
Many people are always talking about equal rights, but when they are facing the enemy, it seems that all social changes will bring turmoil. The current law that has been in operation for many years is reasonable because it is business as usual; it is safe because it is reasonable.
But everyone has their own limitations, and our time also has its limitations. But when something seemingly unreasonable occurs, once we refuse to understand deeply, and resist and hate it directly because it is "beyond my own knowledge", a wall is built between us and the wider world.
The song Bread and Roses that everyone sang collectively also had an equal rights story behind it-the American textile women workers' strike in 1912 was also called the "Bread and Roses" movement. The slogan that was shouted at that time was that bread was a matter of mouth and stomach, and Roses was probably a respected work environment and other spiritual demands. After watching the movie, I repeated the song many times.
"Yes It's bread we fight for, but we fight for Roses, too."
It couldn't be more appropriate to put it in the context of the moment. We want bread, that is a basic right, a right that everyone should enjoy equally. We are calling for roses, seeking love and understanding. We should understand and help each other. If we can't do it, we can at least listen and communicate patiently. It's just that when we use a variety of labels to separate the crowds and treat them differently, we forget that we are all "people" in the first place.
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