Get Smart is a classic American TV series in the 1960s. It was remade into a movie this year. It was popular in my country in the 1980s. I was also a fan of this TV series. The terrorist organization in the film is called Kaos. This word is a homophone conversion of Chaos (k and c are homophones, and h is not pronounced). Chaos is the core word of TOEFL. Chinese students record it as "noisy". In the translated TV series, This organization is translated as Chaos Organization, and the name of the Secret Service where Maxwell Savvy is located is Control. The struggle between Control and Chaos is at the heart of the entire American social system.
It's hard to discuss this film without bringing in terrorism, the ones who are going to destroy civilization and turn the world of Control into Chaos. The traditional terrorist is represented by Lex Luthor played by Kevin Spacey in "Superman Returns", this line from the Indians in the pioneering period ("Flying Off Mountains") to the Cold War period The mad scientist ("Dr. Strangelove"), and the evil capitalists who have been handed down from the economic recovery of the United States in the 1980s to the present, all of them have only one purpose: to destroy our homeland and occupy our land, which is to destroy materially civilized world. This has always been the basic concept of the American people about terrorists. until bin Laden came along.
Bin Laden changed people's perceptions. He created the clown of the new century. This clown learned a new way to make Chaos. , a few barrels of gasoline, a few bombs is enough, the important thing is to create a fearful mentality among the people. Like Hitchcock, he excavated the fear hidden in people's hearts (this is also the charm of the role of the Joker). So how should the Americans deal with him? It can only be the traditional "you are ruthless, I am more ruthless" thinking, leaving no dead ends is the best way that stupid Americans can come up with (as Morgan Freeman said in the film: "In order to catch the Those robbers, we set fire to the forest."), so Bush's national surveillance anti-terrorism policy was born, which is Batman's city-wide sonar detection system, which is a sacrifice to maintain a civilized world, this is for the sake of the civilized world. It's really hard not to be reminiscent of the Crusades. In this way, the American people lost their freedom and democracy in the battle to maintain freedom and democracy. This society is owned by the whole people and has become owned by the "big brother" who monitors everything. Maybe temporarily, you see Morgan Freeman Didn't that destroy the machine in the end, but was it really temporary? Would you really allow a little bit of freedom and democracy that isn't absolute in order to maintain absolute freedom and democracy? If so, where did the Control come from? Isn't it Chaos? Control and Chaos have such an either-or relationship, just like the inspector Harvey Dent's coin in the film. It originally only had one side, and it can be controlled no matter how you throw it. Later, it became two-sided, just like his coin. The face has become Chaos. Harvey Dent's story is still the traditional relationship between innocence and depravity, but this time it's not the depravity itself that occupies the protagonist, but the snake that induces it. It seems that all the troubles are caused by the opposition between Control and Chaos. Unfortunately, there is no way, stupid Americans can't accept the combination of yin and yang.
The film serves Bush's anti-terrorism policy, which is popular in today's society, and more importantly serves the ideological basis of Bush's anti-democratic policy: "We must be like the people on the two ships in the film, not afraid of the threat of terror, and work together. Eliminate terrorists and leave a clean civilized world." This is exactly the same as Nazi Germany's "building a world belonging to the Aryan race", which easily provokes the frenzy of the whole society. The 500 million box office and the 9.5 rating probably all come from this. Of course we also have to thank Heath Ledger, who died at the right time. The frenzy of the people made a great artist.
In fact, "Batman" is originally an anti-democratic work. Bruce Wayne is not like Superman or Spider-Man from the common people. His superpowers are piled up with money, but he does not use his money in the daytime. It's a good thing, but choose to sneak out at night with a mask on. This is simply the act of the rich pretending to be coercive. Batman is wise, so his use of that sonar detection system is legitimate, and totalitarian rule comes from it. In fact, Bruce Wayne is the absolute ruler of Gothic City. He not only ruled the upper class of the city during the day, but also ruled the civilian society of the city at night. The poor Joker actually thinks that he and Batman are monsters, and neither of them will be recognized by society. It is one thing. Unfortunately, he does not know that what Batman is thinking at this time is: I am a big man admired by everyone during the day. How could it be the same with you? So the Joker ended up getting close to Harvey Dent.
At the end of the film, the government concealed the truth about Harvey Dent and chose his angelic side to tell the world that Batman was the villain. Added a lot of points. It seems that the film is also beginning to question its own thinking that the angels and demons (Control and Chaos) are completely opposed, but in fact it does not have any of its seemingly critical functions, it is nothing more than to tell everyone that our wise monarch Bruce Wayne It's really easy to think of "Curse me!" when a king yells "Curse me!" to his subjects, willing to sacrifice and be cursed in order to preserve our pure world (and the foolish people of a pure world). The Emperor's New Clothes".
One last joke:
The CIA, the FBI, and the Los Angeles Police Department (which has the most powerful SWAT force in the world) all think they are the best cops, and the president put a rabbit in the woods to tell the difference, who said Find that rabbit, whoever is the best cop.
First, the CIA took action. They sent a large number of spies deep into the forest, conducted a year-long investigation, and finally concluded that there were no rabbits in the forest.
Then the FBI came out. They sent a large number of police forces to surround the forest and shouted inside, ordering the rabbits to come out and surrender within half an hour, otherwise they would set fire to the forest. The rabbits didn't come out after half an hour, they literally burned the forest, and they refused to admit their mistakes.
Finally, the Los Angeles Police Department, they sent three police officers into the forest, and after a while, the three people dragged out a bruised bear, the bear kept begging: "I admit that I am a rabbit, I admit that I am a rabbit... …”
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