Emotional cognitive enthusiasm does not win history

Charlie 2022-04-03 09:01:12

I think that every Chinese who comes to watch this film will be as concerned as the Jews in the film. It is only more than half a century after World War II. The persecution of Jews by the Nazis in the past is actually a dead and fabricated history in the bones of some people. The publication of a book that became a well-known "historian". The heroine, who firmly believes that this is an iron historical fact, became a defendant because of "false accusation", and finally won a difficult victory through court debate of side-by-side. It can be said that this lawsuit is almost another turning point in the Sino-Japanese dispute over the "Nanjing Massacre" in recent years. Iron-like history requires iron-like evidence. Just relying on impulsive and perceptual cognition to repeat the experiences of those years will only lead to greater humiliation in front of opponents. This film is also an excellent historical dispute between China and Japan. For reference, when everyone is angry at the large number of so-called "historical truth" books on the Japanese side that glorify aggression and deny war crimes, apart from verbal criticism, do we leave any unchanging iron evidence for people who seek historical truth in the future? and historical facts. Today, several years later, in the face of history, the heroine team chose to let the participants and witnesses stand by, which is a very rational and correct choice for the future. This film is just based on a previous lawsuit to record the process. Except for the impulsive heroine and the cool lawyer's good acting skills, there is nothing special about the film itself. Perhaps the director's personal cognition or scruples did not make the film ideological. There are higher upgrades and in-depth discussions, but it deserves an extra star to present such a sensitive topic to the audience. Emotional cognitive enthusiasm cannot win the truth of history. Rational response will make the truth more respected by future generations. Blind abuse and ignorant atrocities will only make opponents more ecstatic and win more audiences. In the future, history will face even more difficult challenges.

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  • Roel 2022-04-09 09:01:08

    I just watched a short video this morning of a mountain of relics from the victims of Auschwitz, and I saw the movie tonight. Sometimes the road to defending the truth is extremely difficult, which also reminds me of the behavior of Neon Kingdom tampering with history textbooks, borrowing a sentence from the heroine, "I have nothing to say to the deniers, I only want to protect the survivors and the victims. Those who say that history will eventually be remembered, and your voice will eventually be heard."

  • Trycia 2022-04-05 09:01:07

    I don't debate with anyone who denies it, and on the court, the best method to beat the opponent lie in the inconsistency among all stories told by them.

Denial quotes

  • Richard Rampton: The coward threatens only where he is safe.

    [Quoting Goethe: "Der Feige droht nur, wo er sicher ist"]

  • Richard Rampton: My lord, during this trial, we have heard from Professor Evans and others of at least 25 major falsifications of history. Well, says Mr. Irving, "all historians make mistakes." But there is a difference between negligence, which is random in its effect, and a deliberateness, which is far more one-sided. All Mr. Irving's little fictions, all his tweaks of the evidence all tend in the same direction: the exculpation of Adolf Hitler. He is, to use an analogy, like the waiter who always gives the wrong change. If he is honest, we may expect sometimes his mistakes to favor the customers, sometimes himself. But Mr. Irving is the dishonest waiter. All his mistakes work in his favor. How far, if at all, Mr. Irving's Antisemitism is the cause of his Hitler apology, or vice versa, is unimportant. Whether they are taken together or individually, it is clear that they have led him to prostitute his reputation as a serious historian in favor of a bogus rehabilitation of Adolf Hitler and the dissemination of virulent Antisemitic propaganda.