I watched this movie twice in two days, once by myself and once with the whole family. Watching the downloaded version, you don't have to pay for it yourself, and of course you don't complain as much as those who go to the cinema.
In my opinion, the whole play is a film that is dressed in the guise of reasoning and suspense, and is essentially a film that exposes the brutal persecution of the Chinese by the Japanese (including the Japanese puppet elements). Ancient castle, isolation from the world, and finding one of the five, the first thing that reminded me was Grandma's "No One Survives" and Jin Tianyi. The interrogation began, the mutual accusations, suspicions, and conflicts made me feel that the next battle of wits and suspicions would be even more exciting. But what disappointed me was that the plot of reasoning ended like this, and the next hour was full of naked mental and physical torture. The methods of execution can be described as various: palace torture, naked body measurement, electrocution, acupuncture... …In addition to feeling that the film rating system urgently needs to be implemented, I also found that my expectations were going in the wrong direction in the first place.
Mao Zedong said at the beginning: "Revolution is not a dinner party, an essay, a painting or embroidery. It cannot be so elegant, unhurried, and gentle. It is gentle, courteous, and thrifty. Revolution is a riot." Such a revolution, let alone being invaded?
And the real situation is ten times, a hundred times more terrifying and cruel than the plot of the movie. When I was a child, I read about the tortures of bamboo sticks stabbing the hearts of ten fingers and sitting on tiger benches in books. Thinking about it, it was extremely painful. There is a scene in "The Sound of the Wind" where Zhang Hanyu was stabbed more than a dozen times, but he didn't reveal a word of information except for spitting up blood. My mother joked at the time: If you are so strong, why don't you become the Communist Party? In the end, he turned out to be the Communist Party.
I don’t know if it’s a fact or a patriotic education. Anyway, among many TV dramas, movies, and novels, the most stoic, the least beaten to death, and the least afraid of torture are the Communists. Those who were caught wouldn't say a single word. If it were me, they might bite their tongues or commit suicide as soon as they were tortured, because I was very afraid of pain. But those communist parties won't, and will stick to it anyway, just like the law of immortality in the comics now.
Speaking of which, I have to admire their unwavering faith. This kind of belief has not been broken from the end of the Qing Dynasty to the 20 or 30 years after the founding of New China. But overnight, society has gone from one extreme to the other, from a society where all people have faith to a society where money is paramount and the individual is long live. Who now believes in communism? Who can face the ten tortures with their head held high?
Especially those people who are full of belly fat at the wine table, are they ashamed when they see this movie? Or contempt?
I'm afraid of pain, I definitely can't stand these tortures, I definitely can't become an underground party. But to quote Gu Xiaomeng's last sentence in the play: "When the nation is in the midst of life and death, we can only risk our lives to save in case."
Saying such a thing in this era will probably be called hypocritical, contrived, and empty. boast. Maybe we can despise this sentence now, but don't forget how many people in our land have sacrificed their lives for this sentence.
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