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"The Beacon and Red Flames of Love": The idealist's head is broken and blood is broken
Bryon 2022-02-02 08:16:20
I don’t know if the male protagonist in the film is an early “Snowden”. He once came to Russia with idealism and a romantic wife, trying to find an ideal political system to rescue capitalism, but he died in a foreign country at the age of 32. More than half a century later, another idealist, Snowden, fled the United States with all the secrets and found "freedom" in Russia. Where exactly is the goal that human beings pursue, in this three-hour, 31-award-winning film, we may see how thorny the idealist's hard road is. As for the ideal of human beings, such as drinking water, knowing whether it is hot or cold.
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Avis 2022-02-02 08:16:20
Three and a half, round up; both Vittorio and Deedee Allen are strong
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Vito 2022-03-26 09:01:14
It's because I didn't learn history well. I really don't understand why the people in the movie are so excited and talk so fast. I probably thought that communism was good, but after experiencing it, I found that it was too different from what I imagined, not as good as capitalism, but unfortunately I can’t go back.
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Emma Goldman: The Soviets have no more local autonomy. The central state has all the power. All the power is in the hands of a few men and they are destroying the revolution. They are destroying any hope of real communism in Russia. They're putting people like me in jail. My understanding of revolution is not a continual extermination of political dissenters, and I want no part of it. Every single newspaper's been shut down or taken over by the party. Anyone even vaguely suspected of being a counter-revolutionary can be taken out and shot without a trial. Where does that end? Is any nightmare justifiable in the name of defense against counter-revolution?
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John Reed: What did you think this thing was gonna be? A revolution by consensus where we all sat down and agreed over a cup of coffee?
Emma Goldman: Nothing works. Four million people died last year. Not from fighting a war, they died from starvation and typhus in a militaristic police state that suppresses freedom and human rights where nothing works.