The anti-Japanese drama can be said to be a specialty of our domestic films. With his unique performance style, logical and strange story line, he occupies a piece of the sky in our public vision, which also gave birth to many plots that make people speechless, such as hand tearing devils, and for example, "my grandfather died at the age of three", which makes people doubt the lines of life, and now many TV dramas have made serious things between the anti-Japanese resistance extremely shallow, it seems to be an easy thing, and even more, it will distort history, reverse black and white, and shoot some plots that are inconsistent with historical facts. Create characters that don't match the facts. The protagonist of the story we want to tell today is such a character, this character has been a traitor, a bandit, and has done a lot of bad things that have harmed the people, but some crews have shaped him into the image of an anti-Japanese hero, he is Xie Wendong.
Xie Wendong, born in 1887 in Dandong City, Liaoning Province, is a Manchu, in the early years of farming for a living, but he himself is definitely not an honest farmer, when the family is very poor, he has done the work of kidnapping tickets, and thus was hunted, and when the popularity of the hunt passed, he led his family to find a sparsely populated mountain, relying on a small amount of capital at hand under the large land, gradually became a local landlord, life has become rich. However, the good times did not last long, the 918 incident broke out, the three eastern provinces fell, the northeast region suffered Japanese aggression, the past peace and wealth were lost between the dynasty, in order to protect his homeland, Xie Wendong led a group of hometown disciples to rise up and launch a peasant rebellion, successfully eliminated a number of senior commanders of the Japanese army. It can be said that at this time, Xie Wendong can be called a heroic figure in the chaotic world, he dared to struggle, actively resisted Japan, and became a big banner calling on the people in the northeast region to spontaneously resist Japan. However, although Xie Wendong did these good things for the benefit of the country and the people, his essence is still for himself, as an egoist, Xie Wendong's subsequent rebellion is actually traceable.
Xie Wendong and the peasant self-defense army he personally formed gradually became invincible after struggling with the Japanese invaders for a period of time, because Xie Wendong had performed well in the previous ambushes against the Japanese army, and the Japanese invaders gradually began to focus on Xie Wendong and his troops, although Xie Wendong had the advantage of local combat and could use his familiarity with the terrain to delay the breakthrough, but in the face of the Japanese army, which was very elite in weapons and equipment, and the number was far superior to his own, it was still difficult to continue after all. At this time, the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance extended a helping hand to Xie Wendong, so Xie Wendong joined the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation with his men and began a years-long anti-Japanese career.
However, the domestic situation is constantly changing, and as the pace of aggression by the Japanese aggressors against our country gradually accelerates, the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance is gradually unable to continue to support. In 1937, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out in an all-round way, the horn of aggression sounded, and the pace of Xie Wendong's defection to the enemy was also accelerating. In the spring of 1939, in the face of the Japanese invaders' encirclement and suppression again, in the case of almost all the sacrifices of the people around him, Xie Wendong could not be a hero who sacrificed his life for righteousness after all, he chose to defect to the Japanese, became a traitor to the motherland and the people, and became a traitor shouted by everyone.
Xie Wendong's rebellion dealt a huge blow to the entire Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance, because in that era, Xie Wendong was like a banner, gathering all the patriots in the northeast region to resist Japan together, and Xie Wendong's behavior was a great blow to the anti-Japanese enthusiasm of the people in the entire northeast region, but he not only surrendered to the enemy, but even went to Japan, and did such an insulting thing as kneeling down to repent in Japan, which was really despised by people, and Xie Wendong had abandoned the bottom line and given up his dignity in order to survive.
In addition to being a traitor, Xie Wendong is also a complete speculator. After becoming a traitor, Xie Wendong did the work of squeezing the adjacent fish and meat people, and under the protection of the Japanese, lived a few years of very moist life. After Japan's surrender, Xie Wendong immediately found a new way to survive, that is, to use heavy money to buy channels, join the Kuomintang, continue to do improper things, and was deeply hated by the local people. However, there is a saying that good and evil will eventually be repaid, and Xie Wendong's various evil deeds have finally ushered in evil consequences; with the cooperation of the people, our party army has successfully arrested Xie Wendong, who fled, and sentenced him to death under the people's public trial. In the winter of 1946, Xie Wendong ushered in his death, and he was executed on the spot at the scene of the public trial.
Fate will meet, everything has a cause and effect, Xie Wendong finally paid the price. From the above introduction, we can see that although Xie Wendong has done good things, he has done more bad things, and even if he does good things, the essence is for himself. However, in recent years, many TV series like to portray him as a hero, which is really disrespectful to history and disrespectful to those heroes who still hold fast to their faith under torture.
The history of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, as a very important part of China's modern history, is profound and thick, and in this history there have been countless benevolent men and women who have thrown their heads and spilled their blood, and the sacrifices they have made are far from being as shallow as those filmed in the anti-Japanese drama. However, in fact, we also have very good anti-Japanese dramas and period dramas, such as "Bright Sword", and "The Age of Awakening", so as long as the producer is willing to understand that period of history with their hearts and dedicate their sincerity, they can make good works, and I hope that in the future we can see more excellent works on the big and small screens.