Humanitarian Aid and the Art of Faith: First Blood 4

What is happening there in Burma is not a civil war, it is a genocide.

——The dialogue line of the movie "First Blood 4"

I sometimes wonder how America has grown into a globally powerful nation in just 200 years. Just watched "First Blood 4" http://www.letv.com/movie/34491.html?ref=baiduletv, can't help but have some feelings. Maybe this film will tell you a secret that can be found without thinking too much, that morality and faith have no borders, and that gunshots to help refugees and fight evil can ring out in any corner of the world! Whether it is the Desert of Africa, or the jungle of Burma, whether it is the sea or the land, as long as there is a disaster, justice will always come!

Rambo, an American veteran who lives in seclusion in Thailand and is familiar with the Thai-Burmese situation, is a cold-hearted warrior who seems to have seen through the cold of the world, and is unwilling to take meaningless adventures and believe it anymore. However, Sarah Miller, a beautiful female doctor who is simple, shy and kind, and persistently pursues her faith, changes him. Together with other missionaries, she provides humanitarian assistance to people who are persecuted. Rambo was eventually persuaded by Sarah to send missionaries from Thailand by water to a Karen village in Burma. They brought medicines and medical techniques to carry out humanitarian relief. Hundreds of women and children enjoyed occasional peace in the rescue. But the arrival of a group of Burmese bandits washed the village in blood. Villagers were shot, shelled, and driven into mines-thrown paddies, while the Burmese bandit army enjoyed the thrill of killing. The bodies of the refugees were hung from trees and discarded on the road, only to deter the populace from opposing the Burmese bandit army.

Several missionaries were captured in the Burmese raid and lost contact with the outside world. The reverend, Arthur Marsh, distraught, again asked Rambo, a Christian, for help, begging him to send an armed group of mercenaries to rescue the captured missionaries. Pastor Arthur Marsh said, "Lord, make me a puppet in your hands." Wherever there is hatred, let me bring love there; where there is harm, let me bring forgiveness there; where there is doubt, let me bring faith; where there is despair, let me bring hope; where there is darkness, let me bring light; where there is sorrow, let me bring joy there. "Pastor Marsh's devout faith touched the goodness deep within Rambo's soul. Rambo agreed, and volunteered to join the rescue team. In his actions in Burma, he witnessed the brutal crimes of Burmese warlords. Finally, with the help of the Karen Free Army, the missionaries were rescued and the Burmese bandit army was wiped out.

The hero of the film, Rambo's actor - Stallone, the famous American Hollywood star. Recalling the film's creative impulses, he said, "I kept looking for, even asking people around me, and I called the editorial board of Destiny Warrior magazine and called the United Nations and asked them, 'On this planet, what do you think is the most publicized and most humanely detrimental event?'" They always replied, 'Burma.' I would say that the story told in the film is based on real events, a war that lasted almost 60 years, the longest war in the world. ”

In the movie, there is a classic dialogue: what happened in Burma is not a civil war, it is a genocide. Over the past 60 years, Kayin State has established an autonomous government, only to suffer brutal, systematic genocide by Burmese warlords. First Blood 4 was released in 2007 for the purpose of making the film, as Kevin King put it, "I hope that through this film, it will bring enough attention from the international side, and then there will be a completely different transition." "Stallone undoubtedly has ideals in making movies, and the jungles of northern Burma are so far away from the United States, but the disasters that occur there, he wants to use his actions to care." The evil that happens there, he wants to use his art to rebel.

Of course, the film also talks about the warlords of northern Myanmar, and believes that many of them are drug tycoons. However, humanitarian heroes are trying to help the suffering people, and the drugs that are sold all over the world are not an excuse to stop them from helping the suffering people. Ironically, when the Kokang Han chinese in northern Burma were ruthlessly slaughtered by the Burmese bandit army, many Chinese netizens said that they were drug dealers, warlords, and completely left them alone. From the official to the private sector, from the entrepreneurs to the stars, no one cares about the occurrence of suffering in northern Myanmar, we all say that it is the internal affairs of Myanmar, that is the civil war. The film makes it clear that this is not war, this is a planned and systematic genocide!

According to the online feedback of many netizens who returned from the Kokang Land in northern Myanmar, the Burmese bandit army has committed countless crimes against the people of Kokang, many women and children have been hanged together by a rope around their necks, and countless homes have been destroyed. Kokang civilians were constantly warned not to contact kokang's allies or to shoot and kill. "Where there is despair, let me bring hope there; where there is darkness, let me bring light there," the words of Pastor Marsh in the film also rang out here among the Chinese compatriots who have blood and faith. In this rescue of Kokang refugees, there is also a Doctor Lin Gang who embraces ideals and beliefs and adheres to the upright path of the Chinese nation, broke through the restrictions of national borders and threw himself into the action of rescuing Kokang refugees without hesitation. This is undoubtedly worthy of our praise.

However, Dr. Lim is different from a Western missionary. As netizens put it: "The missionaries in the film later realized that in the genocide, it was futile to save people with medicine and medical skills alone, and it was nothing more than providing more lambs to be slaughtered for burmese warlords." Therefore, they learned to meet evil and kill evil, and to destroy demons when they encountered demons. Dr. Lin does not have a license to kill, but the path taken by Dr. Lin continues the unfinished business of Dr. Bethune coming to China to save lives and help the injured. "In my opinion, the desire for justice and the relief of suffering is a common ideal for everything. The same is probably true of Dr. Lin Gang, a white angel who embraces faith to save refugees.

This film is undoubtedly very emotional, it begins with the depiction of the massacre of the northern people by the Burmese warlord government, and ends with the intervention of European Christians and the dispatch of mercenaries to completely annihilate this brutal Burmese army deep into northern Burma, demonstrating the power of justice. From the comparison between China and Europe and the United States, this has formed a strong contrast, there are many films in Europe and the United States that promote humanitarian disaster relief, and Western governments do not appear in the film, but there is no doubt that they are acquiescing to this kind of humanitarian relief. The film's propaganda also implies that humanitarian aid is borderless, ideological, and unfettered by government power.

Moreover, the film successfully promotes Western values and Christian ideology, and in the end, with the purpose of subjugating people with virtue, it finally eliminates the brutal Burmese bandit army by force. Of course, the ideology propagated in this film is the belief and morality of Western Christianity, and when this belief and morality is temporarily invalid, Christians send mercenaries. This cannot help but make people think that the current suppression of the humanitarian disaster in northern Myanmar undoubtedly requires the faith and culture of the Chinese nation and strong intervention to truly save northern Myanmar from water and fire.

First Blood 4 is a film in which Christianity intervenes forcefully in southeast Asian humanitarian relief as a savior, and there is still a lot of work to be done in Chinese academic circles or Confucianism. The Christian propaganda in the film never uses killing and force to counter violence by violence, which is the same as Confucianism. But in the end, in order to save a few Christians who went to northern Myanmar for medical treatment, mercenaries were dispatched and a bloody force of justice was aroused, which was undoubtedly enlightening. The filming of the film has the traditional routine of Western heroic films, that is, how the powerful and lawless enemy abuses the innocent people, and then the angelic doctor, there must be a kind female doctor, risking her life, both beautiful and kind, in it, she will never kill, she is the angel of inspiration and love, she is the power of love and beauty, the power of faith, and men will be moved by her, and finally fight to defend the people to defend her!

In terms of film and television art, European and American films on humanitarian disaster relief have done very well, and their governments will never worry about other countries saying that they are interfering in the internal affairs of other countries. In terms of Chinese film and television, we can actually make such films, that is, we need to make films in which the Chinese nation transcends national borders and helplessly rescues weak and small ethnic groups and suffering people, so as to gain the moral support of the people at home and abroad. It is difficult for us to win the hearts and minds of the people in our simple diplomacy of not interfering in the internal affairs of other countries, because when the suffering that occurs in various parts of the world, especially when chinese citizens overseas or overseas Chinese are subjected to the tyranny of local countries and governments, and we still prevaricate by not interfering in the internal affairs of other countries, then world public opinion will certainly be unfavorable to us, and the Chinese compatriots scattered all over the world will also lose their dependence.

Knowing righteousness is not done, no courage is also! As a country, as a nation, we must shoulder our responsibilities for the region and the world!