Herdsman: Love, Responsibility and Ideal

"Lao Xu, I'll introduce you to an object" has become the hottest segment in Tik Tok. The immortal love between Xu Lingjun and Li Xiuzhi has also become the "ultimate dream" of young people in this materialistic world. With the earnest mood of letting Guo Tiaozi introduce an object to himself, I also watched the old movie herdsman.

I was deeply moved from the beginning of the movie, because I grew up at the foot of Qilian Mountain in Mianyang, Gansu, which was always promised in the movie. Perhaps because of the lack of artists' insight into beauty, I have lived for nearly 2 years, and I have not found my hometown as beautiful as described in the movie. It's just that as I left, my memory was distorted by homesickness, and the bad places gradually blurred, and the good places gradually enlarged, and I began to miss the place where I was born and raised as much as I missed my parents.

going back to the film itself, I am surprised by two things. One is the one-sided interpretation of the film in Tik Tok, but the boldness of the theme involved in the film.

In Tik Tok, the simple love between Xu Lingjun and Li Xiuzhi is often edited in just a few tens of seconds, and few authors edit the ideological conflict between Xu Lingjun and his father.

It's true that the love story between Xu Lingjun and Li Xiuzhi is enviable: wonderful fate, meeting in drama, shy beginning, loving marriage, insipid staying together, firm trust, happy reunion ... All these, like a candle, illuminate the young people struggling in the material black hole.

Love is God's greatest gift to mankind, but now it is destroyed by houses, cars and high-priced bride price. It can be said that this generation of young people will be the most miserable generation in human history, because young people who go forward or later have either ideals or love, while we have nothing.

What I remember most about this love is three episodes. One is the "wedding night". When Lao Xu saw that Xiuzhi was asleep, he covered Xiuzhi with the only quilt and chose to make a floor. I used to think I was an upright person, but recently I began to recall the past like an old man, and found that I was not as upright as I thought. I may not be able to sit still in Liu Xiahui, and if I live alone for 3 years like Xu Lingjun, I believe I can't. When she saw Xiuzhi crying because she was homesick, Xu Lingjun resolutely took out the 4 yuan money and 2 kilograms of food stamps that she had accumulated for more than ten years, so that Xiuzhi, who had only seen one side, could go back to her hometown. Now, I'm afraid such behavior will be laughed at by others-what is love? Love is just a virtue, no different from kindness.

Second, when Lao Xu was rehabilitated, Xiuzhi said, "I don't care if he is an official; I don't mind if he lets the horse go for another 2 years. " When I heard this, I believe many people were impressed by Xiuzhi's three views of integrity-in our time, such three views are too ugly: when men have money, they dislike women's ugliness and can't show their faces; Women even start to dislike men's poverty and can't give them the life they want, but this ugly woman is the one who accompanied you through the most difficult time, and this poor man will give you a shelter from the wind and rain in the future. Money corrupts people far more than we expected. We used to think that having money would make us more ideal, but in reality, having money makes our ideals left behind as garbage.

Third, when my father's secretary asked if Xu Xiuzhi was beautiful, Lao Xu kindly said, "Just a little girl". Just like the secretary said, what a kind name. Love is vividly reflected in this name: intimacy, fun, spoil … That girl doesn't want to be called a little girl in front of her lover?

Of course, if it's limited to love, then this movie will really become vulgar like Tik Tok.

Among them, the dialogue between Xu Lingjun and his father, the discussion on the cultural conflict between China and the West, is even more thought-provoking in today's situation of "great change in a hundred years".

first of all, freedom is out of line. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the liberalism developed by Locke and enriched by Hayek and Dewey almost became the supreme truth, while the competition extended by liberalism was regarded as the standard leading to civilization. However, the recent epidemic has begun to pull liberalism down from the altar. The so-called democratic thought of liberalism has become "selfish democracy"-you can sacrifice your freedom for my freedom. Obviously, this is far from the freedom advocated by Locke, or it can be guessed that freedom itself has no boundaries, and infringement is an inevitable attribute of freedom.

the second is the price of money. Xu Lingjun's father has a lot of money. Xu Lingjun can leave with his father and go to the United States to enjoy the splendor, but Xu Lingjun chose to stay and didn't go. I believe many people don't understand this decision, because Xu's father said that Xiuzhi and the children could be taken with him. If someone asks you when you are dying, what is the meaning of your life, what will you answer? Xu Lingjun made an answer, that is, to move forward with the people and be a truly capitalized person. Xiuzhi also made her own answer: only her own money is comfortable to spend.

Many things around me remind me that money corrupts our will much more seriously than we think. Now, the values of society are soaring out of control towards the supremacy of money, and we even turn a blind eye to it: relatives are diluted by money, love is torn apart by money, ideals are lured by money, and beliefs are corroded by money ... If we don't stop it, we, including our descendants, will all become slaves of money.

It is glorious to work, and it is even more glorious to work for the people. If someone asks me if I have money, I hope I can confidently say, "I have no money, but I have love, responsibility and ideals. I am a real worker."