My Monologue:
A movie of one man, squeezing away the darkness of the night. Those days movies healed me. Calm my restless heart.
Inadvertently, the movie "Sidekbarle" broke into my field of vision. I don't like bland films, I like curiosities and new things.
The "aliens" tattooed on the cover of the movie are full of wild beauty.
When I watched it for a few minutes, I couldn't stop.
Since then, Mona Rudao has become my new idol.
The film is based on the "Wushe Incident" in Taiwan in 1930. It is said that the director spent 12 years and 700 million Taiwan dollars. Although the box office is not ideal at the moment, it has lost money. But years later, the film came back into the public eye, and there were a lot of people who liked the film as much as I did, and I thought it was all worth it.
Synopsis:
After the Sino-Japanese War, Japan invaded and occupied Taiwan for 50 years, "daily chemicalizing" the colonial Chinese, and insulting and oppressing the local people, including the Saidekya people living in the mountains. They were not allowed to hunt, tattoo and other activities, physically tortured them, and despised them spiritually. The Saidekya believe in rainbows and have their own totems. Brave people can climb the Rainbow Bridge and be accepted and recognized by their ancestors. Therefore, they see death as a homecoming. If they lose their faith and freedom, or even lose their original ethnic group, it is really death for them. So, under the leadership of the leader of the Mahpo Society, Mona Rudao, 300 hundred warriors used shotguns and stones to fight against the Japanese army of 3,000 and their aircraft cannons and chemical weapons.
The film was released in Taiwan on September 9, 2011.
In the film, Mona Rudao endured for thirty years, in fact, his heart was suffering all the time. The balance of the heart is wavering: is it the choice to live and steal, or the choice to defend the dignity of one's own ethnic group with death? The teachings of his dead father gave him the answer.
The Saideks were brave and warlike, walking barefoot on the wooded meadows like flying. They used the Japanese colonial authorities to engage in "shrine sacrifices", and the Japanese suddenly attacked them during a rally. And with his own experience and wisdom, the Japanese invaders suffered. Seeing this, we moviegoers also feel very happy.
There have always been contradictions and hatreds between ethnic groups in order to compete for territory. The usual trick of the Japanese is to divide. Although at the beginning of the war, Mona Rudao, as well as his sons and warriors, knew that the war would not be won, and they all held the heart of not being free and preferring to die. But the intervention and confrontation of ethnic groups made this war extremely tragic.
What impressed me the most, and I couldn't help but feel sad, was that the wives and mothers of the clan (some were young, some were dying), in order not to increase the burden on the warriors, save food, and let them break the boat, collectively committed suicide and hanged themselves on the "Rainbow Bridge".
The young Saidekya, who saw their loved ones die. The Japanese-turned-Saidek was full of internal contradictions, whether to return to his original ethnic gods, or to use the weapons of the Japanese against his own people? They eventually chose to commit suicide by breaking their stomachs in the Japanese way.
The film devotes a lot of space to showing the fight between the same clan. Originally born from the same root, why is it too urgent to fry each other?
The Saidekya were good at jungle warfare and the Japanese suffered. The Japanese were mad and used chemical weapons against our compatriots in the mountains of Taiwan, so that they would be poisoned and worse off than dead.
In the end, Mona Rudao and his people, including the brave young man Bawan, gave their lives. Only a few pregnant women remained, who were later transported by the Japanese to distant places.
But, their spirit lives on. Mona Rudao and his people will live forever.
To this day, the beautiful and rich Taiwan has not really returned to the embrace of Its Chinese mother, and it has become the object of contention among the European powers. Just as Lee Kuan Yew said: No country or party can stop Taiwan's return, and cross-strait reunification is only a matter of time. Hopefully, this moment will come early.
And the Mona Rudao under the Nine Springs can also rest in peace.
I'm Muzi, and I sincerely hope you guys can see this movie during the holidays. Thanks for reading and Happy New Year.