Marx was a fire thief. He passed the fire of his ideas to the whole world. In that chaotic and depressed era, he burned a prairie fire and ignited the hope of the people!
However, the film does not sing the praises of Marx, and regards him as a perfect character. From the perspective of ordinary people, it tells the story of the young Marx from the forced closure of the Rheinische Zeitung to the publication of the "Communist Manifesto" in just five years. Marx also made mistakes and was troubled by life. Later in the film, Marx and Engels argued at the seaside, and the great men who were praised in that era would doubt whether they were right or not, and would also be confused about life. The film is not a textbook rigid character, he has a close friend Engels who has always supported him, and a lover Jenny who understands his silent dedication. He is an ordinary person in the film, but he dares to criticize and think. When the Rheinische Zeitung was about to be shut down, he dared to say "they can't kill our minds". Not mediocre because of the ordinary, but great in the ordinary.
He was the Prometheus of that era, and the fire that he stole left him wandering, hungry and cold, and he could still say "toast to a truly thinking soul and an ideal of freedom".
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