This film is very realistic. What the pioneers of that era were looking for was animal skins, which were used to make beaver skin hats favored by arty European nobles. The film interprets the most typical types of people in the west into story characters. The first type is people with skills, people who are brought by demand, and they just want to earn a living honestly; the second type are speculators. In the film, they are actually portrayed as Chinese. They are businessmen who are not afraid of risks, have rich experience and sharp vision, look for business opportunities everywhere, and aspire to become upstarts; the third type of people are those in power, this type of people are most afraid of being looked down upon by European aristocrats. The most important feature of this type of people is that they are ruthless and ruthless towards the lower class. They occupy important resources and violent institutions. The film casts them into idiots in order to satirize this group of people. The fourth category should be action. Chivalrous people, in general westerns should be mainly people like Acura, but this western film has gone the realistic way; the fifth category is indigenous, and the early westerns have portrayed them as murderous barbarians. This The Ministry is also alternatively portraying them as a display object for those in power. Collecting the first three types of typical characters, the story becomes a tragic story of a power man who is afraid of being laughed at killing industrious laborers and smart businessmen for a few barrels of milk. The first cow represents the means of production brought for vanity during the pioneering process but failed to play its role. In fact, the saddest thing in human history is that there will always be such ignorant and cruel authorities, and poor victims in the real world without heroes, no matter what era and which country.
And the reason why I like this movie is that it tore the fig leaf of the superiority theory of Western civilization to pieces and restores the so-called pioneering spirit to the human nature. Behind the propaganda of Western arrogance and prejudice, the history of the western United States is nothing but bones. The history of blood and tears that is gorgeously packaged. The West has always promoted its own advantages in civilization, including adventurous and competitive spirit, advanced science, human rights and economic systems, consumerism, and its own religious beliefs. The film mocked the low-end face of the upstart American as a supplier of low-end raw materials in the industry chain. The so-called adventurous spirit is engraved on the bones of countless poor speculators; the so-called advanced science and technology has brought endless tragic fate for many people who slurp on food; the so-called human rights or ownership system is a guardrail for the cattle by those in power. ; The so-called consumerism is nothing but a hat to cover up ignorance and vanity; the so-called religious beliefs may only be rhetoric after a meal.
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