Freedom is a superficial thing

Ottilie 2021-12-16 08:01:10

It was almost past zero when I returned to the dormitory last night. I was lazy. I really didn't want to continue reading, thinking about watching an unnutritious movie to kill the time, so I washed and went to bed early. For this reason, I chose "Pirate Radio" for a long time, and then I was surprised. "Underground radio" is a concept with a long history. Even in our education, underground radio is not unfamiliar. Everywhere at home and abroad, when talking about underground radio, it is always associated with the concepts of the red political power, revolution, and national liberation, and it has ups and downs with the bloody history of the mid-twentieth century. I remember when I was in elementary school, I went to Shanghai Radio. The door of the live room was guarded by a gun guard. I was shocked. I thought it was just to broadcast news and newspaper digests, 990 broadcasts, Bailing Bird broadcasts, and not the city government. Adults joked that if you want to occupy a country, the first thing you need to do is to kill the radio station...Perhaps until the birth of the Internet, radio waves should be the most widely used and most efficient media tool in the world. After all, it’s no one. Both can afford a large 29-inch color TV, but the price of an FM radio and listening at a roadside stand is not much more expensive than a New Orleans grilled wing. Perhaps because of this, the battle for the right to speak in the air has become another vital invisible front in all wars. The underground station symbolizes complete and absolute freedom. It can traverse all oceans, seas, mountains, all barbed wires and prohibitions, and break through all barriers. , Which transmits information through the air, has become the most revolutionary and subversive symbol. After the turbulent revolutionary years passed, as the saying goes, "the bird will die, the good bow will hide; the sly rabbit will die, the running dog will cook", underground radio stations should also be silent with the blood and legends of the martyrs and walk into the museum. But "Pirate Radio" tells us that even in the harmonious era of economic prosperity, the country and the people, even in the prosperous Britain in the 1960s, freedom is never a red-headed document, a legal slogan, or a monument as simple as a monument. The British in the 1960s believed that the need to pursue freedom could never be stopped, and it would not come to an end with the realization of national freedom. There are other and even more freedoms that need to be awakened and pursued with the same passion and madness. , It doesn’t have to be noble, complicated, or metaphysical, it can be just the freedom to listen to music and the freedom to listen to rock music. In today's harmonious society that prides itself on freedom as much as waste gas on a highway, it is for this reason that the audience in front of the screen feels distressed. Of course, the film’s bright colors, exaggerated costumes, classic music, soothing rhythms, relaxed and lively tunes, sensational climaxes, in the bones The British romantic comedy fan, and the group of loving and stylish old men... can all be reasons for people to fall in love with this film, but there are always others that have enough persuasiveness and appeal. , So that these factors become more lovely, so that we are willing to indulge in the plot, laugh with them, hold our breath together, mourn together, and cry together. For those of us who do not belong to and have never witnessed the age when the story happened, Pirate Radio is a utopia that we cannot afford. It represents just the simplest and most universal dream, no matter what we live in. In this environment, nothing can stop us from pursuing the freedom of personal freedom. Perhaps one day, when we can achieve this and be able to respect and tolerate everyone with the same right to pursue freedom, then we will be able to achieve a real world harmony. Pirate Radio is indeed superficial, commercial, non-rock spirit, cute, stylized, and even kitsch, but this does not prevent me from giving it five stars. Let us leave the spirit of rock and roll to the musicians, to the literary and artistic films to the film critics, to the philosophers about what is true freedom, and to the ethicists... Freedom, freedom, and the right to desire freedom belong to everyone, because freedom is a superficial thing.

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  • Ambrose 2022-04-23 07:02:21

    So handsome~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  • Christa 2022-03-25 09:01:09

    I am most disgusted with this kind of movie that sells and cheats money under the guise of rock music. I basically only watch documentaries and biographies of individual reliable people for movies about rock and roll.

The Boat That Rocked quotes

  • The Count: Here's a rather long record. I hope I'm here at the end of it.

  • Quentin: Your mother is dropping by to pay us a visit before Christmas.

    'Young' Carl: You're kidding? When does she arrive?

    Quentin: Tomorrow. She was always very impromptu. Anyway, I thought you might like to know, in case you want to brush your hair or hide the large stack of pornography you keep on that shelf.