Let's sing "National Anthem"

Haskell 2022-01-17 08:01:47

In "The Birth of a Nation",
as Tan Sitong said, the revolution must be awakened with blood. At first, I thought the so-called Turner was Martin Luther King, or other black religious leaders. Unexpectedly, this was originally the tragic sacrifice of a revolution. The film tells the story of the famous slave riot led by Knight Turner in 1831, which is also the most important fuse that triggered the outbreak of the American Civil War.
Looking at this movie from our perspective today, there is still a lot of inspiration. Such a movie easily reminds us of our "National Anthem".
First of all, if you do not want to be enslaved, you must protect your country from the beginning, regardless of who is the ruler of the country. Once reduced to slavery, not just a generation will be sacrificed. Looking at the brutal beatings, abuses, and insults suffered by the slaves in the film, we absolutely don't want to experience that kind of life, and of course we don't want our offspring to experience it.
Secondly, to be worked hard, there can only be hope if we unite. Just like in the film, the little black boy shouldn't have confided to the white man. Why did he do that? A young child saw the black people pulling the master out and beheading in the middle of the night, and ran to report the letter, which led to Turner's revolution, which was quickly put out by guns. Although he should have seen how whites enslaved blacks, maybe he, like Turner, had received some grace from whites, which seemed to make him forget his "identity." This is the problem. Revolutions have always been afraid of rape and infighting; therefore, the oppressors always use the method of "divide and rule". Because as long as one person can give a small report, that's fine. In connection with the "Pharaoh and the Gods" that I just watched, the elders of the Jews of the Moses Secret Society, two Jews went to inform the Governor of Egypt, and the reward they received was "not to kill them." Think again of Xiao Li's black housekeeper in "The Rescued Jiang Ge".
What I thought at the beginning was still lack of wisdom, because Turner only received religious education and did not read more books, especially the history books and military books needed by the revolutionary movement. Because I also guessed that Turner later used "sermons" to secretly unite the black slaves of various manors, and then unified the time to revolt.
Finally, where there is oppression, where there is resistance. No one wants to pay blood for blood, after all, this is against human nature. But, like Turner, he served white people and used religion to restrain those black slaves. But I saw all kinds of bloody behavior (when black people protested on a hunger strike, the white person actually took a hammer to open his mouth and then stuffed things), encountered various insults, his wife was innocently ravaged by several white people, because he baptized a white person, He was beaten severely. In the end, there is only one way to liberation, and that is revolution, blood for blood. The Bible can also have two sides of education, because the wisdom carried by words cannot have only one side, and the nature of human nature cannot have only one side of kindness and tolerance. 17.2.10

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  • Joannie 2022-03-20 09:02:35

    Inexplicably turned into a murderer and then nothing happened

  • Vern 2022-03-21 09:02:59

    The earliest violent revolt of black slaves in the United States was shocking and sad. The descriptions of the characters are quite delicate, but they are heavily masked. The development of the story is reasonable but obvious. Not outstanding among the many black civil rights films today.

The Birth of a Nation quotes

  • Nat Turner: Rebel!

  • Nat Turner: [after Nat watches a horrific scene between a slave and slave owner and has to preach to the slaves] Brethren, I pray you'll sing to the Lord, a new song. Sing praise in assembly of the righteous. Let the saints be joyful in glory, let them sing aloud on their beds. Let the high praise of God be on the mouths of the saints and a two-edged sword in their hand to execute vengeance on the demonic nations! And punishment on those peoples! To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fens of iron! To execute on them this written judgement! This honor have all his saints! PRAISE THE LORD! PRAISE THE LORD! SING TO HIM A NEW SONG! PRAISE THE LORD! PRAISE THE LORD!