"Million Pound Sterling" is a movie by the protagonist Henry. Adams wandered to other countries at sea, becoming a beggar when he was not familiar with life, worrying about his daily food. It just so happens that two rich men need a poor man to bet, and the protagonist happens to be favored by the god of luck and begins a 30-day millionaire life. His various experiences reflect the role of money in bourgeois society as a call for wind and rain, and reveal the ugly face of human nature in front of money.
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1) Money is a new form of slavery
In the plot of the movie, the owner of the restaurant sees Henry dressed up and thinks that he is a beggar who eats and drinks and wants to eat a hearty meal in the shop. Especially at checkout, he always thinks of making Henry pay well in advance so that the boss feels that he is not doing business in vain. When Henry took out a million pound check, the boss was momentarily stunned, thinking that the million pounds was a huge amount, and the person in front of him was a rich man.
So the boss quickly changed his attitude, apologized for his previous attitude, and asked the store to provide rich food for free to entertain Henry. The owner of the tailor shop was also a snob, and he was blocked by the shabby-dressed Henry from the door, hoping that he would not come in and affect his business. However, after seeing the check, he quickly took out the best cloth in the store to make a dress for Henry and honored him as a guest of honor.
The successive attitudes of the bosses reflect the concept of the supremacy of money in bourgeois society, which distinguishes the status between people. The people only serve the rich, think that money can bring people a sense of security, people serve money like slaves, very powerful, and people are full of the sour smell of money in human interaction.
2, money is a green card in life
The protagonist Henry. Adams was a beggar when he was in exile and could only rely on picking up leftover food from others. Walking down the street in tattered clothes is disliked, let alone eating in a restaurant.
When "pie fell under the heavens" fell on Henry. When Adams was on his head, his life was hanging. Two millionaires gave him a check for a million pounds, which he had at his disposal for a month. With this money, he can eat delicious meals and wear nice clothes.
This movie portrays a tramp with no money and no power, who is coldly watched by others. A man who would be rejected when he walked on the street, when he had a check for a million pounds, the world's eyes on him changed a lot.
In particular, the owner of the restaurant took people by appearance, saw the worn-out man take out a check for a million pounds, quickly changed his opinion of henry, was extremely flattering to Henry, and gave Henry a lot of good food for free, full of remorse for his previous attitude and practices.
Money opened up a wide and boundless road for Henry, and there was a car when he went out, he had money to eat, and clothes were always good to look at. Money opened the "path to happiness" for him, and Henry went to the upper class with a million pound check. Respected and supported by people, he won everything with money in life, showing the decay of the "money first" in society at that time.
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1. The capitalists play with the humanity of the lower society
Two millionaires try to use money to entertain humanity when life is boring. They use a million pound check to create a story whose protagonist must be poor, and the poor man is unaccompanied and unprovoked. Therefore, the best candidate is the poor Henry, who happens to be the best person in the upper class to entertain humanity. So they took a million pound check and gave him a month of discretion to see how his life would be a month later.
Henry, who owned millions of pounds, went from a homeless man who everyone hated, to a popular figure in the upper class, and even to the social status of a royal duke. It shows that British capitalist society is full of money worship, and the poor have no dignity to speak of. Their humanity is trampled upon at any time and they become the object of deception by the rich.
2. Control the capital of social stocks
In the movie, Henry is known to have a cheque for a million pounds, and people are full of temptations for his cheque. Henry, in particular, used his reputation as a check to vouch for the financial crisis of the company for his friends. Overnight, the company came back to life, made a full profit, and the stock price rose a lot. When Henry accidentally lost the check, the stock price in the market plummeted, many people became poor overnight, major securities companies went out of business, and society was in chaos.
When the check is retrieved, the social order becomes normal, and these phenomena reflect that money can control the stock market in the market at will. Money can make society chaotic in an instant and disrupt people's normal lives. In capitalist society, money shakes the foundation of society at any time, and whoever has a lot of money can control the normal life of the stock market at will, and money is the only passport in this numb society.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > concluding remarks</h1>
The film portrays a tramp who becomes an upper-class figure with the help of money. His life changed a lot after "pie fell from the sky". Henry's short month of life was full of experiences, using his reputation for money to help him find a decent job and a lover.
However, the various thrilling events in the story revolve around money. Henry's identity change, the change in the attitude of the owners of restaurants and tailors, all clearly show the ugliness of human nature, people are slaves to money, with the unspoken rules of money supremacy, everyone's life revolves around the pattern of money.
In a capitalist society, the difference between people is how much money they have, not who the individual is. In the life of money as the criterion, everyone is willing to be a slave to money in order to live a rich life for themselves, and money can become a phenomenon in which good people in society become bad people, and bad people become good people. For people at the bottom of society, money is the straw of life, and life without money suffers from dislike and disgust everywhere. Rich people not only have status and reputation, but can even use money to test human nature and play with others to please themselves. Such "happiness" makes people shudder.
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1. The humorous features of "Million Pound Sterling" and the analysis and criticism of the ills of British and American society
2. Analysis of the film "Million Pounds" of money worship ideas