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In 1794, French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre produced the world's first defense of "state terror" - claiming that the road to virtue lay through political violence. This film combines drama, archive and documentary interviews to examine Robespierre's year in charge of the Committee Of Public Safety - the powerful state machine at the heart of Revolutionary France. Contesting Robespierre's legacy is Slavoj Zizek, who argues that terror in the cause of virtue is justifiable, and Simon Schama, who believes the road from Robespierre ran straight to the gulag and the 20th-century concentration camp. The drama, based on original sources, follows the life-and-death politics of the Committee during "Year Two" of the new Republic. It was a year which gave birth to key features of modern age: the thought crime; the belief that calculated acts of violence can perfect humanity; the notion that the interests of "mankind" can be placed above those of "man"; the use of policemen to enforce ...
这一年的学习里遇到最大的恐惧就是齐泽克出现在没有字幕的影像里
Took me almost a wk to finish it // Deeply thought-provoking. // Robespierre in the film looks amazingly like Richard Dawkins.// "I would have loved to have been there."// "The pursuit of virtue through terror has never gone away."// 55k is a small number compared to u know who
每次看法国大革命的纪录片就学到一件事：凭纪录片了解历史是不靠谱的。