"Goodbye Lenin": Passionfly
, an angel of socialism who has fallen into the world It demonized socialism from the ground up - saying that social systems can change people, good systems can turn devils into angels, and bad systems can turn angels into devils. It is as if no matter how hard-working and kind-hearted people are, as long as they enter the socialist system, they will become villains who are lazy and eat big pots of rice, and corrupt officials through the back door; or they will become bureaucratic and self-deceiving officials; A young Red Guard general, a gangster proletariat, or a super leader like a big brother, who has become a master, rebel, criticized, fought, smashed and looted. It's the same as when socialism demonized capitalism - blood and filth dripping from every pore. Is that so? The movie "Goodbye Lenin" made the East German family after the fall of the Berlin Wall give us a real and vivid feeling, a documentary of the social changes brought about by the sudden change of the system.
A couple divorced because of their different political identities, and the husband fled to West Germany; his wife, Christina, stayed in East Germany with two children and lied to the children that the husband eloped with a third party. After experiencing this huge blow, the wife devoted all her loyalty to the socialist cause of the motherland, and even entered the hall of highest honor as an outstanding representative of the people. However, her idealistic and rigorous style at work has become a thorn in the eyes of leaders, so she was demoted and fired; in life, she writes letters of advice to companies that produce defective products with a sense of social responsibility. Love, she fainted when she saw the police beating the youths on the march while her son Alex was among them. This lie has passed the earth-shaking change of the fall of the Berlin Wall. When such a selfless socialist and a kind mother wake up, should we laugh at her "foolish loyalty", or should we be saddened by her disillusioned socialist ideal in reality?
West Germany brought supermarkets, fast-food restaurants; but as socialism grew old, people and unfortunate workers who cast lots lost their jobs and were abandoned by society. Coca-Cola, sauerkraut and IKEA furniture from multinational companies flooded into the East German market; however, the products and brands of traditional East German enterprises seemed to disappear overnight, and the tragic situation can be imagined; it is hard to see on TV and radio. Ballet, but obscene videos all over the street, rock and roll drug use in bars, and even Nazi graffiti; a husband who has returned home to form a new family, but cannot recognize his son, and his ex-wife is in danger of having a heart attack...
Capitalism undoubtedly brings There has been a great liberation of economic vitality—consumers don’t need to write letters to complain, but just use banknotes to vote and use the market to make choices; workers also don’t need to feel social responsibility and strive to be model workers, and capitalists naturally reward hard work and punish laziness. Capitalism has undoubtedly brought unprecedented diversity in culture - you don't need to go against the sky to promote the people's cause for the people, call on everyone to be selfless, just follow people's instincts and hormone secretion, let the big wave of beauties show their coquettish, or Howling and dancing in the disco. However, after all these beautiful pictures are displayed, if you think about it quietly, you will find that it is a bit unbelievable - how those liberals shouted "No one is for oneself, and the world will be destroyed in front of a mother who cares about society and is selfless." "Can you still be so eloquent? As if occupying some sort of moral high ground?
The composition of socialism does depend on people "for the collective, for others," but this is not a utopia. If there are no such selfless people who give and take responsibility, there will be no mother, no family, and no social reproduction. Even taking a step back and saying that freedom based on individualism is a prerequisite for the structure of a civilized society, surrender to the collective and devotion to others cannot simply be dismissed as anticivilization. Socialism wants to build a kind of heaven, and the members she needs are angels; capitalism says that is unrealistic, we are only mortals, we are all mortals, we all love angels, and we all want to go to heaven, but unfortunately, we all become No angels, if you were to create a heaven, it would be tantamount to hell. In "Goodbye Lenin", there is no political position of partiality. The capitalist father also loves his children, and the socialist mother also hides money. The film just tells us that although the social system can cause great pressure and influence on people's behavior, But there are still some hard cores of human nature that neither capitalist nor socialist social systems can cover and touch.
As a result, the Berlin Wall fell, the statue of Lenin was lifted into the sky by a plane, and Christina became an angel who fell into the mortal world. His son, Alex, became a mortal raised by an angel. He grew up in heaven. He loved his angelic mother, he hated his mortal father, but his humanity made him rebel against heaven. , took to the streets to fight for freedom of speech and freedom of departure, and this move just made the angel break his wings, and he regretted it. At this moment, such a "red flag egg" will do something when the red flag falls What kind of choice? Which side will he belong to?
"Goodbye Lenin" once again gave us a real answer. There are not only beautiful angels, but also beautiful mortals in socialism. Alex used a 79-square-meter room to simulate East Germany to protect his dying mother; An artificial paradise to raise angels to atone for sin, or more of a kind of human nature. In this man-made paradise, the mortal reveal kept appearing, so much so that Alex had to make up for it with all kinds of lies, and finally was portrayed as an astronaut who became president and competed with Western corporations to open borders to the West. A half-human, half-paradise accepting immigrants. In the video that Alex watched before his mother died, the explanation given by the East German astronaut was: "The ideal is good, but we must find a way to realize it."
Today's Chinese youth, facing Alec It is the same choice as St. Andrews - how to treat the dying mother, the mother who once gave birth to herself, educated herself, and once had such a sense of belonging. Our parents are old and their doctrines are outdated, but many of their valuable qualities have been forgotten by us. Today, Chinese young people wearing famous brands, playing online games, eating hamburgers, and drinking Coke have learned to clean the snow in front of their own homes, and learned the philosophy that it is better to live a humble life than to sacrifice heroically. Do we still have the sense of social responsibility of the rise and fall of the world and the responsibility of everyone in the red era? Do we still have the kind of spirit that sees death and sacrifices life for the sake of ideals and beliefs? From then on, we have fallen into the mortal world, and have fallen into the mortal world hopelessly forever, without seeing heaven, do we no longer want wings, and no longer desire to fly?
2006.5.15
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