In October 1906, Sun Wen set out from Japan to Hong Kong, and before he was about to arrive in Hong Kong, the Qing court's eagle dogs had arrived in Hong Kong and tried to kill Sun Wen, while Chen Shaobai, the president of China Daily, in order to protect Sun Wen, had a "well-known" secret war with the Qing eagle dogs in Central, Hong Kong!
In the movie "October Siege", many people are portrayed, such as Chen Shaobai, a determined revolutionary, willing to sacrifice everything for the revolutionary cause;
There are big businessmen like Li Yutang, sympathetic to the revolution, funding the revolution;
There are also enthusiastic young people like Li Chongguang, ignorant and fearless, and have no remorse;
But what moved me the most was the bottom of society like Ah Si, Fang Hong, and Wang Fuming, who didn't even know who they wanted to protect, they didn't even know what they were doing, but they were willing to give their lives for it.
Although they come from different classes, although they have different purposes, in the end what they love, hate, and sacrifice is probably for one word, that is, "righteousness."
In October 1906: "There was a group of people who sacrificed their lives for righteousness for a man they never knew!" ”
Li Yutang is a big businessman in Hong Kong, he has wealth that others can't have in their lifetimes, and at the same time he is also a great benevolent person in the eyes of the poor, he will scatter rice to help the poor when his only son is admitted to the Foreign School, he will give money to Liu Gongzi who is in distress, and his opponent Ah Si is also good, and even promised to give him a photo studio to propose relatives.
Rich, wife, children, daughters, he has everything that others dream of, but he still embarked on the road of revolution, and he still secretly funded the revolution without hesitation.
At the beginning, I also doubted his motives, after all, the businessman was too speculative, especially when he found out that his son was also involved in the revolution, he pointed at Chen Shaobai's nose and scolded: "When I knew you, I said that I could pay, but I would not contribute, let alone let my family risk my life!" ”
Look at this sentence, is it like a speculative businessman.
He did not really support Chen Shaobai, nor did he really have ideals in his heart, in the end he was just gambling, is this not the nature of a businessman?
But later, when he found out that his friend Chen Shaobai's whereabouts were unknown, this businessman, who was misunderstood by us, shouldered all the responsibilities.
In order to protect the "China Daily" newspaper, he angrily rebuked the foreigner police in the street.
In order to live up to the trust in Chen Shaobai's heart, he scattered his family wealth and searched for strange people, even if he knew that he would eventually die on the street.
At this moment, I truly understood that he was also an idealist like Chen Shaobai, for a goal, for a future, what was the glory and disgrace of this life?
Only in this traditional patriarch, there is still a side that he does not give up, just as he said to Chen Shaobai at the beginning: "I only got such a son when I was 40 years old, I am such a son, I have lived most of my life, and I will die when I die, but he can't do it."
He gently advised his son: "Don't go out these days, it's not peaceful outside."
Li Chongguang said yes, but in the case that neither side knew, in fact, both of them had already made a choice in the face of this "great righteousness".
A father chose to use his twilight life to fulfill this "great righteousness."
A son chooses to use his own passionate youth to fulfill this "great righteousness".
Both are for the same unmasked person, but the father and son have both chosen to "sacrifice their lives for righteousness!" ”
The coolie Ah Si played by Nicholas Tse may be one of the most painful characters in the movie.
Every day, he would drag Li Yutang through the photo studio, and in the instant he passed, he would secretly pull the bell, and in the photo studio sat a girl he had a crush on for three years, Ah Chun.
But he was timid and shy, and even if he had ten million words in his heart, "I love you", he still did not say it in the end.
Until that day, when Li Yutang finally plucked up the courage to "do everything for the sake of righteousness in his heart", he also plucked up the courage to say to Li Yutang: "Lord, can you give me a kiss to Ah Chun, I like her for three years, but I am a timid person, and I can't speak!" ”
He thought that the old man would agree, but he did not think that the old man would agree so crisply, so he let him turn around and go to the photo studio to propose to him.
After the end of the proposal, Ah Chun and Ah Si came to the seashore, and Ah Chun asked Ah Si such a question: Do you know who you are going to protect tomorrow? What are you going to do tomorrow?
Silly Ah Si smiled and said, "I don't know."
Then he said, "I just want the old man to be good, just like he did to me!" ”
Fang Hong and Wang Fuming, who are also at the bottom of society, do not understand any major national events, let alone any ideals and ambitions.
But they all understand what is right, what is wrong, what is a good person, what is a bad person, they all have what they have in mind, they all have what they want in their hearts.
Just like Ah Si, he thought that after tomorrow, he would be able to marry Ah Chun; Just like Fang Hong, she thinks that after tomorrow, she will be able to return to her hometown Tianjin; Just like Wang Fuming, he thought that after tomorrow, he would be able to return to Shaolin with dignity.
They are all the most ordinary people, they are all the lowest people, they don't understand what "family and country affairs" are, but they all understand what "righteousness" is!
There is such a scene in the movie, which moves me, when Chen Shaobai was caught by his own student Yan Xiaoguo, Yan Xiaoguo asked him this sentence: "You are just a student, you are timid and cowardly, why did you change this country?" ”
Chen Shaobai did not answer, and I thought he could not refute it.
But it wasn't until I later heard the monologue in Sun Wen's autobiography that I suddenly understood what Chen Shaobai didn't say, and Sun Wen said:
My mother once asked me why I had to take the road of revolution because I was also a good doctor and could also save people.
I told my mother: "Doctors can only save a limited number of people, but the revolution can save forty million toiling people."
And Chen Shaobai, a scholar, could have also chosen to stay out of the matter, and could have chosen to go away, but he understood even more that as a reader, as a pioneer of this era, he must stand up and must shout loudly.
For an uncertain future, for an uncertain light, he can also learn from Sun Wen to write from Rong.
At the end of the movie, so the "Pifu" who guarded Sun Wen are dead, only those who have no power to tie the chicken, only those weak students greet them, because they have the soul of the Chinese nation in their hearts and the "righteousness" of the readers.
Just as Zhang Zai said at that time: "Establish a heart for heaven and earth, establish a destiny for the people, continue to learn for the saints, and open up peace for all the worlds."
This is the soul rooted in the hearts of every intellectual, this is the root rooted in the hearts of every reader, and this is the main reason why the Chinese nation has not fallen for thousands of years.
After the death of each "little person", the name and age are marked next to the movie, which is what the director of this film wants to tell all of us the most, that is, the so-called history, in the end, is still created by every ordinary and ordinary little person.
It is precisely because of their dedication, it is precisely with their forward and backward that we have a better life now.
Everyone is an ordinary and ordinary person, but everyone may become the "ordinary and great person" at the juncture of history.
And the middle choice lies in the "righteousness" in your heart!
Author: Qingqing