The background of the story is the 1960s of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. The main line of the film is cut into three parts: Albert, a Soviet spy captured in the United States, Gary, a US Air Force captured in the Soviet Union, an American student arrested in East Germany, and Donovan, Albert's defense attorney. Spielberg did not sell too much at the beginning of the film, and the climax of the spy exchange was established early. However, this does not prevent it from being an excellent film. From those wonderful bridges, what I see is the reflection of the country, race, and individual conveyed by the film itself.
If such a question is put in front of us: what comes first, the nation, race, and individual rights? I guess everyone's answer is different. In a socialist country that has emphasized the priority of collective interests over everything for decades, the general answer of the people may be: the nation is higher than the race and the individual. But the film's protagonist, lawyer Donovan, represents another voice: individual rights are above everything else, and even prisoners of war have the right to legal defense. This difference in consciousness with the general public is the most important point of conflict in the film, dividing him and the general public into two different camps. From the beginning, being spurned by everyone for defending Soviet spies, to finally rescuing captured US Air Force soldiers and innocent students by relying on what he upholds, the change in the world's attitude seems reasonable, but it just falls into fall into the trap of the notion of the "state".
What is the country? In fact, it is the product of social classes, which are used to adjust the social contradictions that continue to arise. Looking back at the history of mankind after thousands of years, it is difficult for us to say whether it is the mainstay of maintaining social stability or a beast that exacerbates human struggles. In the film, what lawyer Donovan has been defending and fighting for is that the Soviet spy Albert enjoys the basic human right to be treated fairly by justice. People cannot understand why he defends a spy who harms the interests of the United States. It is not difficult to see that even in a country that advocates the supremacy of personal rights, it is still difficult for the people living here to escape the word "country" erected in the consciousness. border. People just forget the most ironic point: spies are born out of a struggle for the interests of those in power in a country, and this is just a means for them to maintain their own rule. The spy itself should not be blamed. What is wrong with a person who is loyal to the regime. What is wrong is the sinister heart behind it that is obsessed with power and puts mankind into war.
When I was a student in Hong Kong, political economy was taught by a suave professor. Once when people asked him which country he was from, he replied: I am an anarchist, so where did the country come from. It was the first time in my life that someone gave such an answer, and at that moment, the impact on my heart was huge. This sentence has been circling in my mind, and even today I still often think about it, what is a country? What is its personal significance? Why does it have the right to judge individuals? Counting from the generally recognized city-state of Athens, the first country, human society has gone through thousands of years. Throughout this long history, it seems that people have not stopped bleeding and fighting for a moment because of the birth of the country. On the contrary, it It seems to have exacerbated the idea of partisanship in everyone's mind. In the film, groups of young people were shot and killed for jumping over the Berlin apparatus, and they even died under the guns of their own people. What is even more terrifying than the country seems to be the ideological division carried out by the authorities in a certain country. What we often see is the conflict between countries and the hatred between religions. People seem to be fighting fiercely for a supreme power that does not exist in exchange for the so-called honor of loyalty. And those who pull them to the battlefield are gaining the worship of more ignorant people with triumphant expressions.
At this point, I can't imagine a world worse than today, a land of gunshots, refugees, bombings. Who are those blood spilled for? Maybe they can't articulate it themselves. Country, race, regime, all these political titles that should have been relegated to the fact of "born as a human being" gradually make people lose their focus on themselves, and a passion for collective honor overshadows everything. The source of all terror. The image of standing man created by Tom Hanks has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but unfortunately, most people still cannot understand the logic behind this bravery. It is not fear of power, nor is it an advocacy of personal heroism, it is just a kind of It is the nature to treat complex social people as simple creatures equally, but it is nowhere to be seen, and it is precisely this point that this theme movie has a hint of overtones that touched me.
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