Great Dictator
Untuk postingan pertama ini, saya akan membagikan
pesan seorang seniman yang cukup terkenal di abad ke-20, yaitu Charlie Chaplin.
Chaplin yaitu seorang seniman teater yang sangat mahir dalam seni peran. Jika kita
mendengar nama Chaplin, maka yang ada di benak kita yaitu seorang comedian yang
memparodikan seorang hitler. Namun yang tidak kita ketahui adalah dalam banyak
filmnya yang masih hitam-putih itu banyak sekali pesan-pesan moral yang yang
disuguhkan, meskipun yang kita ingat pertama cuma humoris saja. Seperti dikutip
pada video di Youtube dalam “MESSAGES FOR ALL HUMANITY” kita akan tau bagaimana
seorang Chaplin sebenarnya. Dibawah ini merupakan kutipan pesan Chaplin pada
video tersebut.
THE GREAT DICTATOR’S SPEECH TRANSCRIPT:
“We all want to help one another. Human beings
are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness – not by each other’s
misery. We don’t want to hate and despise on1e another. In this world there is
room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The
way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.Greed has
poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us
into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves
in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made
us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too
little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need
kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all
will be lost…. Soldiers!
don’t give yourselves to brutes – men who despise you – enslave you – who
regiment your lives – tell you what to do – what to think and what to feel! Who
drill you – diet you – treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don’t
give yourselves to these unnatural men – machine men with machine minds and
machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are
men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate! Only the
unloved hate – the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don’t fight for
slavery! Fight for liberty! You, the people have the power – the
power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have
the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful
adventure.”
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