One of the biggest metaphors of this film is that the revolution was not completely successful, and the results of the revolution were stolen.
After the overthrow of snow's rule, the revolution appeared to be a success on the surface, but in fact it was undercurrent, because there was a vacuum in the supreme power, and all parties were competing for the right to rule. Let's see how they perform:
The female president of Cohen in the thirteenth district directly claimed to be the interim president of Shi Huiguo, and tried to retaliate by holding a new Hunger Games, so that the death of children in the Congress district would be blood for blood and tooth for tooth to appease the rebels in other districts. , to capture people's hearts. The previous political propaganda that used Katniss and other game survivors on many occasions was too much to describe.
Commander Lyme, the commander of the Second District, as the Second District most loyal to the Congressional District, stated at the end of "Mockingjay" (Part 1) that the Second District stores the main military facilities of the Congressional District, which shows that the Congressional District is assured of the Second District. The degree is very different from other districts. Of course, this kind of loyalty in the second district must require a certain political transaction, that is, the degree of oppression of the congressional district on the second district (compared with other districts) is the smallest. Fewer occupational tributes, and kids see participating in The Hunger Games as an honor. Commander Lyme is also a contestant who participated in the Hunger Games and survived in the second district. When the rule of snow is overthrown, if Cohen of the thirteenth district takes office, then the "loyalty" of the second district to the congressional district as a political transaction is very important. It may be found out and subject to political liquidation. To put it 10,000 steps back, even if the amnesty order is issued without political liquidation, in an ideal state where everyone is equal and equal, the second district will have the kind of political and harmonious relationship with other districts before. The military superiority will be gone, and this sense of "foreseeable" degraded status and that feeling of being unable to foresee future trends, out of one's own control and influence, will prompt the leaders and people of the Second District to try to achieve greater initiative and voice. Therefore, they must form alliances through political deals with other powers. Who is the alliance partner? How to form an alliance, I will analyze it later.
Commander of the Eighth District, Commander Peller, the black female, she is one of the most interesting characters. In "Mockingjay" (Part 1), when Katniss and his party went to the Eighth District to console the wounded, they came out to greet the wounded. It is this black woman. Unlike District 13, District 8 lacks sufficient ammunition, no solid base, and no air defense weapons with strong firepower. It can be said that District 8 faces much greater pressure than District 13. However, even under such harsh conditions, Peller was still able to lead the people in the Eighth District to fight, which is enough to show that Peller has no less appeal and influence than Cohen. From "Mockingjay" (below), Peller The speeches given before the attack on the Congressional District were more evidence of this. . . However, the most important thing is that Peller has always regarded himself as a soldier (see Peller's speech in "Mockingjay" (below) for details), not as a behind-the-scenes leader or Politician like Cohen, In "Mockingjay" (top), Perler directly took up arms and participated in the battle, compared to Cohen's behind-the-scenes decision-making ("Mockingjay" (bottom) Commander Lyme, the commander of the Second District, once told Cohen that you were hiding behind the scenes It's been too long), Peeller is more cordial in the hearts of soldiers, no strangers, and her actions can also be paid attention to and supported by everyone.
In addition, compared with Cohen, Perler has more conscience and principles, and cherishes human life more than Cohen, who sees human life as a waste for the purpose and can be destroyed at will, attacking the military in the second district under the Mockingjay She refuses to let her army fall into meaningless ground combat, attaches great importance to the lives of soldiers, and at the same time asks for a medical station when she persuades the resisters in the second district to add a medical station, all of which show that she has more humanity and morality, It can also be seen that in fact, she and Cohen have different political opinions, and they are only temporarily cooperating because of the revolution. Therefore, compared with the cunning and cold-blooded Snow and the black-bellied and hypocritical Cohen, it is obvious that Peeller is more suitable for the position of president. We can also see that the Mockingjay still agrees with Peeller's words and deeds. I believe Peeller, as the second most influential leader after Cohen, must have her own (relatively benign) ambitions and desires, although she does not Doing bottomless ugly deeds like Cohen for the sake of the superior, but when President Cohen was shot by Mockingjay and a new power vacuum appeared, she would not let go in order to fight for power.
However, just as after the victory of the XX War that year, Jiang, as a leader in name and in fact, had unshakable prestige in the country at that time. The same situation appeared in President Cohen, who was the first to resist and show up. One of the leaders of the Communist Party of China, through repeated political propaganda, his image has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and he has accumulated a lot of political capital. Its status is hard to shake. How to pull it off the throne, the next two characters are the key.
The first key person: Plutash, the adviser to President Cohen
The actor who played Plutarch was the late actor Philip Hoffman, an actor I liked very much, with superb acting skills. The Plutash he played was once the chief designer of the 75th Hunger Games and a spy. Therefore, he can be said to be one of the few people who knows both snow and Cohen at the same time, and it is precisely because of this that he acts as a think tank in Cohen's team, and many decisions are made by him. character, I believe that he has understood in the process of working with two presidents of different camps for a long time that neither of them is a good bird (of course he is not a good person in the traditional sense), Plutash in " Mockingjay (Part 1), when he persuaded Effie Pure Kurt to surrender, he once said a very suggestive sentence: "Anyone can be replaced." He had foreseen in advance that this so-called revolution for freedom would eventually It will become a competition for power by a few people, so an idea of "replacement" from smart people will definitely arise, but we need to pay attention to that, Plutash has seen and experienced many political struggles, and accumulated a lot of He knows that what he needs now is not to sit on the throne of the president, that is, when the war is over and the situation is not stable, he does not want to be the leader on the surface, because it is very likely that he will be followed. A political movement that followed was obliterated. Rather, it is to become an "invisible leader" with real power, posing as someone behind the scenes. In order to achieve this goal, he must launch a series of actions. Plutarch knew that the only way to remove Cohen from the throne was to breach the fortress from within. This is also the way he later formed an alliance to use Katniss to kill Cohen.
The second key person: snow, as the former president of Shi Huiguo and the top leader, his ascending process has been exposed by Finnick. The methods are cruel, he is cruel to the enemy, and he is even more cruel to himself. The goal is clear, cunning but arrogant. conceited. He and Cohen knew exactly what the other was. In his eyes, Cohen, who was full of ambition and would do anything to achieve his goals, was just imitating his own jumping clown, and what really interested him was only ridicule. Bird Katniss, because in his eyes, Katniss is the opposite of himself. This mocking bird is kind and brave, but also weak and even a little stupid. His arrogance and self-righteousness make him see this mocking bird. In the future, I feel that you can't beat me anyway, so I'm not in a hurry to kill me. Instead, I'm quite interested in watching the other party act as a demon (forgive me, I just use this word to feel a little more vivid), and the psychology is that I see what else you can do as a little girl. Flowers come. . . However, Shi Huiguo held the 75th Hunger Games, and he has done too much evil. Once the dam collapse starts, it cannot be stopped. Snow still underestimated the courage and influence of Katniss, as well as the courage and strength of the people in the resistance area. Determination, the most important thing is that he underestimated the role of popular sentiment, especially in the final offensive and defensive battle of the Presidential Palace in the Congressional District. His conceit made him overestimate Cohen's moral level. It should have been like an orderly relationship between two knights. The confrontation turned into a bottomless attack by barbarians. Cohen bombed innocent children frantically, set the lower limit of war, and threw the blame on sonw. No matter how smart Snow was, it would be difficult to turn the tide.
Snow was defeated like this, and he, who has always been conceited, could not accept the fate of failure, especially when he was defeated by another low-profile version of himself, Cohen. He was both happy and sad about Cohen's behavior of refreshing the lower limit. It was he who saw that his opponent was even more evil than himself. The so-called revolution was nothing but a farce dressed in justice and doing evil deeds. He had already foreseen the outcome of this revolution, and he was very happy. The revolution changed. Sad to be defeated by this trick. He is not reconciled, he wants to make the opponent pay the price, as a wolf, and as a arrogant hard bone, all he can do now is to break the two front teeth on the opposite side when the opponent bites the bone. So he told Katniss the truth about the so-called bombing of children, and did everything possible to create rifts and cracks between Cohen and Katniss, even if he died, he would die with the other side, and he succeeded!
Through the analysis of the key figures above, the whole revolution has finally deviated from the original direction due to the mischief of all parties:
1. Cohen won the victory through bottomless bombing, and took the prestige of victory as the interim president in an attempt to cleanse the Congressional District by holding a new Hunger Games, soothe people's hearts and consolidate his position.
2. The commanders of the Second District and the people’s past allegiance and reliance on the congressional district’s forces have vanished, and past political transactions and political commitments have become a dead letter. In the face of Cohen’s rise to power and the possible subsequent political liquidation and decline in status, vain attempts to The Congressional District fosters new voices and forces
3. Peller, the commander of the eighth district, has the ability as much as Cohen, and the grassroots soldiers and the public are more familiar with him, feel closer and more intimate. Not completely consistent with Cohen's political views, relatively speaking, there are bottom lines and morals, as well as personal ambitions and desires.
4. Plutash, who knows Cohen and snow, has predicted in advance that the revolution will eventually degenerate and deviate from the goal. He has personal desires and ambitions, and hopes to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, trying to become the actual controller of power (invisible leader)
5. Snow, was defeated by Cohen, not reconciled, and knew very well what the essence of this revolution was. In order to get revenge, he risked everything, told the truth to Katniss, created a rift, and was happy to see the revolution fragmented.
Let us clarify the order of these. Commander Lyme and Plutash, the leaders of the second district, joined together for the sake of interests. Plutash, who knew the insider of the bombing, found the leader of the eighth district, Pelle, and explained the truth. , As a leader with a bottom line, Peeller was neither willing to act as a whistleblower nor to be buried in the truth, so the mastermind was able to escape without being held accountable. When Katniss wanted to meet Snow, he did not stop him. At this time, because Snow was unwilling to lose to Cohen, he bet everything to tell Katniss the truth and tried to create a contradiction. After Katniss met Snow, Plutash must have learned the news. He is one of the people who know Katniss best in the whole film, so he is very aware of Mockingjay's next revenge, but for his own sake. , He was happy to see it succeed, sitting on the mountain to watch the tiger fight, and finally reap the benefits of the fisherman. So he didn't tell Cohen about it, and then Cohen voted to hold a new Hunger Games, and decided to publicly execute Snow and hold a new Hunger Games to appease people's actions, so that Katniss finally saw it clearly Cohen's true face, associated with the tragic death of his sister, decided to take revenge. So he pretended to agree to hold a new Hunger Games, but actually offered to execute Snow himself to find a chance for revenge. And all this Plutarch actually saw.
Finally, when Snow was executed, when Katniss shot Cohen with an arrow of revenge, in Snow's eyes, his opponent's goal of going to hell with him had been achieved, and the opponent's revolution had finally deteriorated, and he was full of laughter. . . At this time, Plutarch's wicked smile showed that with his understanding of Katniss ("Mockingjay" (in the "Mockingjay") (Plutarch proved to Cohen many times that he knew Katniss very well), It was all in his plan, and he became one of the biggest winners.
After Cohen's death, a new vacuum of power appeared. Peller of District 8 became the new president with his support among the soldiers and the public at the bottom and his speech and calling ability that did not lose to Cohen. Plutash became a partner behind the scenes. The second district has obtained the corresponding political promise. The Mockingjay was exiled, far from the center of power, and its mother remained in the Congressional District as an invisible hostage threat. Gale, keen on politics, was promoted to captain in the Second District. . . . The story basically ends here.
At that time, Tocqueville stated in "The Old Regime and the Revolution" that the French Revolution seemed to destroy all the old regimes, but the Great Revolution unknowingly inherited most of the emotions, habits, and ideas from the old regime, and some thought it was the achievements of the Great Revolution. The system is actually the inheritance and development of the old system.
The old Shi Huiguo and the Hunger Games in the movie ended with the war, so are the people really free? Is the tribute system really over? Is the Hunger Games really over?
Maybe we can get a glimpse of it from Effie Purecott. As a character throughout the series, Effie is the true portrayal of the nobility in the Congressional District, and her situation is a microcosm of the vast majority of nobility. , she loves pleasure, wine, food, social makeup and clothing are her daily life. When she went to other districts to carry out propaganda work as a special representative of the congressional district, her involuntary contempt, curiosity and even a little nervousness towards the lower-level people in other districts were undoubtedly revealed. She has a good temperament, but is good at Seeing the wind, participating in the revolution or opposing the revolution is not a spontaneous behavior for her. Anyway, as long as there is a place where she can exert her talents, it is enough to be accompanied by gorgeous costumes and makeup all day long, as Katniss’s etiquette Mentor, we can see Effie's extravagant but bizarre outfits in both the first and second episodes. In "Mockingjay" (Part 1), Effie was taken to District 13. At the beginning, she I have nothing to do, I am not interested in everything in District 13, I am dissatisfied with the strict discipline and lack of material supplies, I lock myself in my room all day to play with my dress, and complain that I don't have a good-looking wig, and I can only use a headscarf. Her original real hair was covered. At that time, Effie's dress changed from the most gorgeous in the first two movies to the same as ordinary people in District 13. I think the gap in her heart should be very huge.
When she agreed to Plutarch's request to be in charge of styling the Mockingjay, she even wore a pair of sunglasses that didn't match the attire of District 13 when she met Cohen, and then said to Plutarch, "You know what? What needs a revolution? Her (Cohen) hair." It can be seen that although she temporarily surrendered to the rebels at that time, she still misses the lavish life in the Congressional District.
When she officially helped Katniss shoot the promotional film, her outfit had changed from standard zone 13 work clothes to a fashionable outfit, with a small belt for modification in the middle, high heels, and nail polish. Qi, some people may argue that it is human nature to love beauty, but just like the function of clothing and cosmetics, the strength of grooming ability is also a concrete manifestation of human inequality, and people at the bottom cannot invest more in dressing themselves. time, effort and cost, but Effie Pure Kurt can do it.
When we meet Effie Pure Kurt in Mockingjay (Part 2), the old rule has been overthrown, and Katniss is about to execute snow. At this time, Effie Pure Kurt has Without the slump in the 13th district, no matter from the makeup or from the clothing, I have returned to the appearance of the first and second parts, that is, the standard makeup of the Congress District, wearing an exaggerated wig on the head, wearing a unique feather embellished dress on the body . Just ask, whether the total value of the tens of thousands of soldiers in the rebel zone standing on the Tribute Avenue can be compared to the total value of a dress on Effie. Alignment has changed, ruler has changed, dress as usual! The lives of the nobles will not be greatly affected.
Similarly, we can turn our attention to Peller, the leader of the Eighth District. In Mockingjay (Part 1), when Katniss first met Peller, Peller was covered in smoke and dust. , with a shabby turban wrapped around his head, a dirty vest on his body, and a gun on his back. In Mockingjay (Part 2), when Peller gave a speech before attacking the Congressional District, the tattered outfit was gone, replaced by a (sorry I can't really describe it) baggy dress, kind of voluminous The kimono, whether it is fat cuffs, high shoulder pads, and long straps, all indicate that this is definitely not a suit for combat wear, and simple makeup has begun to appear on Peller's face, such as very obvious thrushes, Perhaps at this time Peeller has withdrawn from the actual operation, and transformed into a behind-the-scenes commander like Cohen. When Peeller finally appeared, her clothes were more complicated and the patterns were more dynamic. We can even see her Put on lipstick. A similar example is Cohen. Cohen's biggest change is his hair. From the beginning of his waist-length hair (laughs) to his neat shoulder-length short hair, it also implies that his role has changed from a rebel leader to a careerist. change. The revolution has been deviated from its original purpose, and the rulers have begun to degenerate. Even if the rule of snow has been overthrown, the new Shi Huiguo is still built on the corpse of the old Shi Huiguo, and the walls of the new country will inevitably have to borrow some of the broken walls of the old country to pave the way and fill it up.
Years later, if future generations are fortunate enough to see the accounts of the events that happened on Gongpin Avenue in Shi Huiguo's archives, they may add a comment, after the revolution, there will be chicken feathers.
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