The secret in a good play "The Cook, the Actor and the Scoundrel"

As the saying goes, you will not survive if you do something wrong. This was true in the past and it is true now. Please read this article carefully as a Chinese must forward it.

Mark Twain's famous saying: "History does not repeat, but it rhymes."

The good play "The Cook, the Actor, the Scoundrel" is sung like a prophecy: Japanese Unit 731 The virus he created eventually mutated and infected his own troops. The actor in the film: Li Fangzhi. The boss lady: Wu Hongying. Some real but unknown heroes. Just as it is said in the film: This play was not easy to sing, so they just finished it with their lives.

Outside the pavilion, beside the ancient road, the green grass stretched across the sky. The Chinese nation still remembers these Republic of China students who sacrificed their lives and blood for the motherland. The story is fictional, the characters are fictional, and the history is real.

Director Guan Hu is a director with a sense of historical responsibility. In the original "Migrant Workers of Survival" and in the recent hit "Eight Hundred", we can see his feelings about his family and country, reality and fiction, history and movies. He often presents the ups and downs of the fate of small people in the context of big history. , because it is too real, we often believe it to be true, and because it is too real, it is a sincere tribute.

This part is a film review. Let’s talk about the historical secrets involved in the film.

What is the virus mentioned in the movie? Why are the Japanese soldiers who developed it so scared?

Cholera is the English translation of cholera, which is caused by Vibrio cholerae. Video. The key point is: the cholera virus developed by the Japanese army was originally intended to kill Chinese people, but the virus mutated so that the Japanese army also became infected with the virus, which became the driving force of the plot throughout the film. /p>

In the past 200 years, there have been seven global cholera pandemics.

The first pandemic (1817–1824) was first controlled in the Indian subcontinent. A large outbreak occurred in Bengal. By 1820, it spread throughout India and even reached China and the Caspian Sea.

A second epidemic (1829–1837) occurred in 1832. It spread to Europe, London, Ontario, Canada, and New York in the same year, and then developed to the Pacific Coast of North America in 1834)

The third pandemic (1846–1860) mainly affected Russia. , causing more than 1 million deaths [

The fourth pandemic (1863-1875) spread to most of Europe and Africa. There were also large-scale cholera epidemics in China during the Xianfeng and Tongzhi years of the Qing Dynasty. Outbreak.

In the fifth pandemic (1881–1896), cholera contaminated the tap water in Hamburg, Germany, killing 8,606 people. In 1893, Waldemar Haffkin invented the first cholera vaccine. And a successful trial of large-scale vaccination was carried out in the Calcutta region of India.

The sixth pandemic (1899–1923) had only a small impact on Europe and India due to advances in public hygiene. More than 800,000 people died, and large-scale epidemics also broke out in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.

The seventh pandemic (1961–present) is called Elto, which started in Indonesia in 1961.

It spread to Bangladesh in 1963 and to India in 1964. , and spread to the Soviet Union in 1966.

Viruses are not terrible. What is terrible are man-made viruses and their use to kill humans.

In 1937, Japan launched the July 7th Incident and occupied Peiping. The Japanese army violated the basic principles of the 1925 Geneva Convention and used bacterial weapons in the war of aggression against China.

In addition to the well-known Kwantung Army Unit 731, the Japanese army also established the second bacteriological warfare base in North China at the Temple of Heaven Park in Peking - the "North China Expeditionary Army Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Department", numbered 1855. The 1855 Bacteriological Unit is One of the main forces of Japanese germ warfare in North China, also known as the North Branch/North China (A) 1855th Unit or the 151st Military Station Hospital, its number is about 1,500.

With the technical support of Unit 731 of the Japanese Kwantung Army, during the two years from 1938 to 1939, the North China Expeditionary Army Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Department carried out long-term operations in order to make good use of the various technologies and facilities provided by Unit 731. Conducting human trials. The Japanese army frantically established a germ warfare network and used it on a large scale in the war of aggression in North China.

In addition to the headquarters in Peiping, the 1855 Army has successively set up branches, offices or dispatch teams in more than 10 cities including Tianjin, Taiyuan, Jinan, Shijiazhuang, Zhangjiakou, Zhengzhou, Kaifeng, Qingdao, Baotou, Xuzhou, etc. , all for the purpose of conducting human experiments and germ warfare.

The distribution locations of Japan’s six major bacterial forces, 5 of which are located in China and 1 in Singapore.

The headquarters of the 1855 Bacteriological Force has three sections. The Sanitary Inspection Section is a specialized institution for the study of bacterial agents; the Bacteriological Production Section is responsible for the mass production of various bacterial agents, and, like other troops, conducts plague flea control. cultivation work; the Bacteriological Weapons Research Institute is an institution specializing in the development and use of plague fleas.

Both the Beijing headquarters and the Taiyuan Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Branch conducted cruel experiments and autopsies on dozens of anti-Japanese comrades within one month. It is difficult for us to know the total number, but the crimes of the Jinan Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Branch have been disclosed. During the Anti-Japanese War, the Jinan Branch conducted human experiments and live autopsies, with approximately 2,000 victims.

Mere experiments and dissections no longer seem to be able to satisfy the desires of the 1855 troops. They even used living people as weapons to cultivate bacteria. According to Takeuchi's written confession: From August 1 to 31, 1943, he was sent to the Jinan Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Branch (1875 Unit, under the jurisdiction of the North China Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Headquarters). At that time, 11 captured Eighth Route Army soldiers were used to treat typhoid fever. Through the cultivation of bacteria, 16 barrels of live typhoid bacteria for semi-bacterial warfare were produced.

Generally speaking, it is speculated that the headquarters of the 1855 Army and its branches, offices, and detachments may have killed at least 5,000 Chinese compatriots in human bacterial experiments and anatomical observations.

Between 1938 and 1944, North China’s Unit 1855 used bacterial weapons on a large scale on the battlefield, killing a large number of our compatriots.

They once put cholera, typhoid and other pathogens into the drinking water of villages and towns along railways and highways in North China, causing the spread of epidemics in North China; Cholera and malaria bacteria spread in the areas on both sides of Qing Road in North Road; plague spread in Suiyuan, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Hebei and other places.

In these germ wars, the number of deaths of Chinese compatriots that can be counted has exceeded 250,000, but this number is obviously far underestimated.

Although the crimes of Unit 1855 were ignored in the Burley Trial, many truths are gradually being revealed today, and the evil deeds of the 1855 Germ Unit should also be made public.

During the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese invaders conducted a large number of germ warfare in China. From 1938 to 1945, there were 33 documented cases of germ warfare in North China alone, resulting in hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths (excluding military deaths).

The evidence is irrefutable and cannot be denied

In 2014, Beijing Huachen Auction House held the photography exhibition "The Occupation of Images: Research on Image Collection of Japan's Invasion of China from 1894 to 1945". The collector has collected the image data of the 1855 troops.

Some people say that "The Cook, the Actor, the Scoundrel" is a pseudo-nationalist movie, but I don't think it is. The film's idealism is not superfluous, offsetting the dark, pessimistic, and desperate black humor. After all, a movie is a movie, it is just a means of artistic expression, and it is already a 20th century movie. Quentin can shoot "Inglourious Basterds", why can't Guan Hu shoot "The Cook, the Actor, the Scoundrel"?

A professor from the Beijing Film Academy once said that there are no real black humor movies in China. However, Guan Hu, who graduated from Nortel, not only shot more than one black humor movie in China. In my opinion, "Bullfighting" can be regarded as a remarkable black humor movie, and "The Cook, Actor, and Scoundrel" is an idealistic black humor, and all the fake scenes in it can be called black humor.

A movie makes us rethink history, which is what we gain beyond the movie.

Looking at the current world, we have to think deeply. In this film released in 2013, the main plot seems to be prophesying and hinting at something, which is worthy of our current vigilance.