But the movie is not a travel story of Mr. Smith. Another Chinese translation will better explain the essence of the movie "Long Live Democracy". You can say that this is an American main theme movie. From the very beginning, we were taken to Capitol Hill, Lincoln Memorial, visited the U.S. Constitution, and the Liberty Bell by the excited Smith. , Rule by the people, a country for the people". The value of freedom is constantly repeated throughout the film. There will always be some people who will "defends some lost case" like Smith, to fight the whole country for something just, to prevent this country from becoming what they hate, even if the hope is slim, even if it is doomed to fail. It is these people who truly believe in the core values of this country to guard freedom, justice, and hope. It is this country that has become a symbol of freedom. It has been seen in "god father II" and "1900". In a similar scene, a ship across the Atlantic appeared on the coastline of the New World. All the new immigrants with naked on the ship suddenly forgot the exhaustion of the journey and shouted "America". The Statue of Liberty reflected in their eyes was exactly The source of their American dream. And the people who guard this dream include Senator Smith, Finch the lawyer (
Then there was what Bush said: "The most precious thing in the history of mankind for thousands of years is not the dazzling technology, the classic works of the vast masters, and the politicians' speeches, but the realization of the realization of the rulers. The taming of the people has realized the dream of keeping them in cages. Because only by taming them and keeping them locked up, will they not be harmful. I am standing in the cage and talking to you.”
But the film actually talked about a lot. An overly idealistic story, a young senator who knows nothing, confronts the entire corrupt parliament alone, and finally allows his father’s good friend, senior senator Paine, to admit that he was bribed and controlled. The end of the story is a bit hasty, but it touches me even more, who cares whether it will happen in reality or not. Just as there is a song called "Even if there are no fairy tales in the world" When Smith has been speaking in Parliament for 24 hours, when He recites the U.S. Constitution. When he speaks about freedom over and over again, when he insists on defending his lost case and defending the justice of the parliament for the whole country and finally faints, I am easily susceptible to such idealistic feelings. Moved, I just like this kind of Don Quixote's behavior.
I remember that Chen Wenqian wrote an article "Here Never Rejects People with Ideals", saying that in a good society, you believe in "ideals" and you will not really fail after all. You have an ideal in this society. When you tell others about your ideal, they will give you the ideal feedback. She was talking about Taiwan, but it’s actually very appropriate to put it here. Smith’s ability to successfully complete this near-impossible miracle is also his insistence on his ideals, and the support of the people around him, and he was moved by his ideals. His secretary Sanders, and the Speaker of Parliament.
Then, this is the meaning of this film. This is the reason why I was moved by this idealistic old movie.
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