Yesterday, Netflix officially premiered "The Three-Body Problem," a new drama carefully produced by the original team of "Game of Thrones." The drama is adapted from the long science fiction novel "The Three-Body" written by Chinese author Liu Cixin.
The opening scene of the first episode describes a scene during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, which has caused widespread heated discussions on social media (excluding viewers in China, because the drama has been banned by the Chinese government due to the censorship system). Many people commented that it was too violent and bloody, while others, particularly those who experienced the Cultural Revolution firsthand, argued that due to Netflix's rating system, it was impossible to fully capture the brutal reality of the era on screen.
Indeed, my grandfather was one of those cruelty abused and maltreatment to death through struggle sessions. My mother was the daughter forced to witness her father's gruesome death. What was even more horrifying than depicted in the video was the public torture and abuse my grandfather endured day after day, beaten until unconsciousness, only to be dragged away and repeated the next morning. After each session, the Red Guards would force my grandmother, along with my mother and her siblings, to kneel on stage and clean up my grandfather's blood.
My mother rarely recalled that period of her life. But one evening on the anniversary of my grandfather's death, when I was 16 years old, after drinking some glasses of wine, she began to recount those cruel memories to me. My mother who always proud and elegant broken down that night as if sulfuric acid had been poured onto a gypsum statue. She cried out like a child, tears streaming down her face, shouting for“Baba(father)”. I held her tightly, fearing she would shatter into sand and I would never be able to put her back together. She completely collapsed in my arms, crying out, "Those demons who killed my father! Not a single one was punished! Those executioners! Never apologized! They live among us, as if nothing ever happened, as if they were human!"
That night, she cried herself to sleep in my embrace, while I stayed awake, fearing that the black hole of memory would consume her. Thankfully, the next day, my mother woke up and resumed her usual demeanor.
For many years, she never mentioned it again until her passing, and I realized it was the cruelest pain and hatred she could never resolve in her life. Her elegance was her armor, her shield, and her spear. She made those demons see that even though they could destroy lives, they could never destroy spirits. There were things she wouldn't allow them to shatter!
While people watch this TV series as entertainment but for me that feels like watching a documentary of my family's history. As I write these words today, my heart still bleeds. I feel I have to record that real history. Because those who lived through it are passing away, yet, the justice has not been arrived!
Russian police have cut the ear off a suspect and made him eat it, on camera and posted it online...because, this is the stuff that Russians do.
These are the people that are coming to reestablish USSR 2.0 in Europe.
Get ready or just arm Ukraine.
PiS ustanowił złodziejskie zasady liczenia składki zdrowotnej przez małych przedsiębiorców
Teraz przywracanie racjonalności w tym zakresie nazywa się"kosztem dla budżetu"
Nie szanowni.Kosztem dla budżetu to np dopłaty do KRUS-ponad 20 mld/rok
Do przedsiębiorców nikt nie dopłaca!
The American protectorate and nuclear umbrella is becoming unreliable, says Poland's foreign minister.
Eastern EU warming to the idea of European defence sovereignty, despite lambasting France for such suggestions for past 3 decades.
Jeśli Polska nie jest w trakcie rozwijania programu broni nuklearnej, byłoby to szczytem niekompetencji rządzących @KosiniakKamysz@sikorskiradek@donaldtusk
🇺🇸USA jest w totalnej dysfunkcji w wyniku działań MAGA.
🇩🇪Niemcy nadal śpią.
🇫🇷Francja daleko.
🇬🇧UK zmiotło z planszy.
So this person wants to vent because despite thinking he was going to get hours at a job, he hasn't. You ever been in that position ? I have
Then he vents because he is living out of a car and is upset because minimum wage is not enough to pay the bills. Think you might vent because you arent making enough to pay the bills ? I have.
You know what I didn't hear this person do ? Ask for public assistance. Ask for money to do nothing.
They are obviously trying to be self sufficient and that is not nothing.
And you, rather than respecting the effort and the grind you want to judge them based on how they see themselves.
Who gives a fuck about how people want to identify. That's up to them.
I see a person who is trying to do the right thing and work and stand on their own
I respect him a whole lot more for what he is trying to do than what I have seen you do.
Opozycja ma pretensje, że 🇩🇪dostali na amunicję 170 mln euro a 🇵🇱2 mln. Wnioski przyjmowano do 13/12/23.
3 nasze firmy wnioskowały o 15 razy mniej niż DE ostatecznie dostały. Z czego co najmniej 1 z tych polskich wnioskow złożono nie do tego programu.
Perfidni Teutoni, zła 🇪🇺.
Zleciało się sporo komentatorów pod moim wpisem, zatem wyjaśnię. Za rządów PiS tak nieudolnie złożono te wnioski, że zdobyły one tak małą liczbę punktów, że nie weszły nawet na listy rezerwowe... Także ten.
Podziękowania i gratulacje należą się @mblaszczak 💪