It was the night before Sun Wen came to Hong Kong, and the big boss Li Yutang personally cooked and prepared the last supper for those who participated in the operation. Watching them talk cheerfully about life beyond tomorrow, he was heartbroken. Because he knows, they have no tomorrow, but they don't know. So, there was that conversation with Liu Gongzi.
Li Yutang is a businessman, and the most important thing for businessmen is credibility. He has been honest all his life, made good friends, treated friends well, and upheld the excellent tradition of Shanxi merchants. He only talks about business, not politics. But his friend Chen Shaobai told him that from the day he started funding the revolution, he was already a revolutionary party. What is a revolutionary party, he doesn't know, but he was dragged on the road of revolution step by step by his friends, and finally ruined his son's life.
Li Yutang felt that he was a liar. He lied to those who followed him in the operation without telling them what the consequences of the operation would be. But in fact, like Ah Si and Fang Hong, he was just a deceived person. They were all confusedly drawn into the revolutionary camp, and they did not know what the meaning of the revolution was and what the price of the revolution was. What they uphold is a very simple concept of being good to those who are good to them.
Therefore, watching "October Siege" will be a little heavy. So many people, so many little people, were sacrificed like this, and they didn't know the meaning of their sacrifice and why they died. Is the revolution to be carried out in such a deceitful way? I think there may be a lot of people who feel this way when watching the movie.
In fact, at the beginning of any revolution, there are always a few who know the truth, which means that revolutions are inevitably deceitful. Especially before the Revolution of 1911, the vast majority of the people at the bottom had not yet been enlightened after being accustomed to thousands of years of submission and enslavement. The words "rationality, democracy, equality, freedom" are out of reach and incomprehensible to them. Their emotions are gathered, they take part in action, they become revolutionaries without knowing it.
"October Siege" may also reveal from another perspective, why did the vigorous Revolution of 1911 end in failure? That was because the revolutionary party at that time was eager to achieve success and took chances, because the vast majority of the bottom had not awakened, because there were too many people who did not know the truth watching and were revolutionized.
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