Yesterday, an article by Renwu went viral and then it was 404ed.
Then, the fact that the article was 404ed continued to go viral.
And then, this article, which was 404ed 404 times, was resurrected for the 405th time from another corner and circulated. It is very similar to the 1976 Tianmen Mountain poem copying incident, which was tightly banned and became a symbol of that era.
Let's go back to the article.
The protagonist of the article is a female doctor, the head of a certain department in a certain hospital. She was the first doctor to identify the novel coronavirus and the first person to throw paper outside the wall.
The following story, people are already "aesthetic fatigue", talking, admonishing, reviewing... familiar formulas, familiar tastes.
One could even pessimistically say that from a news perspective, this news is "not news". Just like in "1917", death can no longer stimulate the nerves of soldiers.
The truly touching part of this draft is that the female doctor apologized.
Yes, the female doctor is a savior, and she apologized.
The female doctor knew the truth very early on and was the first to circle the virus in red.
Then she was interviewed because of the note-passing incident.
This interview was quite explosive, and the female doctor was extremely emotionally affected, to the point that when someone later asked about the virus, she could only remain silent.
But when she saw people around her falling one by one, she regretted it. She regretted not being braver at the beginning and not telling more people.
In fact, she is not regretting, she is apologizing. She is apologizing to her deceased colleagues and to all the deceased.
One of her classmates apologized to her because the classmate sent out the message she had sent to him, causing her trouble.
But she said that the apology she most wanted to hear was never spoken.
This is normal.
Because only saviors apologize. Only saviors see individuals in their eyes and truly apologize for those lives that have passed away.
The scene of the female doctor "apologizing" reminded me of "Schindler's List".
Businessman Schindler almost exhausted his family fortune to "buy back" the lives of more than 1,100 Jews from the barrel of the Nazis' guns.
This was an immeasurable merit that should have been passed down for generations. I am sure that Schindler was also proud of his feat.
But he did not ask for gratitude.
"Many of you have come to express your gratitude to me. Thank yourselves."
He even called himself a criminal, belittled himself as an exploiter, and asked for forgiveness from the more than 1,100 Jewish workers.
"I am a criminal. You will be free, and I will be arrested. After midnight, I have to flee."
He gave a final speech to the workers with a hint of self-mockery and pretended ease.
After midnight, all the Jewish workers spontaneously stood at the gate to bid him farewell. The factory manager represented the workers and presented him with a gold ring - made from a gold tooth donated by an elderly Jew.
The ring was engraved with a Hebrew saying: "Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire."
Schindler, who had been able to talk and laugh in front of the German army, trembled when he heard these words. The ring fell to the ground, and he quickly squatted down to pick it up and solemnly put it on his finger, suddenly bursting into tears.
He was not proud. He was not proud of saving 1,100 lives. He regretted and apologized for not being able to save more people.
Some people have commented that this scene is too sentimental and deliberate, and does not fit Schindler's usual suave and handsome image.
This is not deliberate, this is the noblest humanity, the truly noble person.
A true savior will only hate themselves for being too small, and will not consider themselves great. Life and death are not positive and negative, and the sum of the two does not equal zero.
In terms of "guilt", Schindler and the female doctor, both saviors, are the same.
Schindler regretted that money could not buy more lives, while the female doctor regretted not having the courage to throw more stones outside the wall.
In their eyes, they see the shadows of those who have died.
Schindler did not forget the girl in the red dress. The female doctor also did not forget the night she borrowed a heart defibrillator from her department to save Dr. Li.
In their eyes, there are also the exhausted survivors.
The female doctor heard that some of her doctor colleagues wanted to change careers, and she herself began to seriously consider whether to go home and become a housewife.
Schindler's car slowly drove out of the crowd, without hearing cheers or cries, the exhausted and numb faces of the survivors reflected in the car window, blending with Schindler's tears.
Those more than 1,100 Jews watched Schindler's car disappear into the night, and they no longer had the strength to walk back to the factory, but lay down on the spot, waiting for the dawn.
When dawn broke, the Jews who had survived the night lay scattered like corpses.
A Soviet soldier rode a war horse, ticking and slowly walked to the factory gate, proudly announcing to this group of "living dead":
"You have been liberated by the Soviet army."
Silence. The soldier did not hear the imagined cheers in his ears. The Jewish manager slowly approached the soldier and asked him:
"Have you been to Poland?"
"I just came from there," the soldier replied happily.
"Are there still Jews there?"
The soldier opened his mouth wide and said nothing. Another Jew asked:
"Where are we going?"
After hesitating for a moment, the soldier suggested that they not go east, where Jews were hated, "but if I were you, I wouldn't go west either," the soldier emphasized.
In other words, for the survivors, asking about the direction is too luxurious, and it is best to focus on the issue of survival at the moment. So when the Jews asked if there was any food, the soldier pointed not far away and said the most valuable sentence of his trip:
"There is a small town over there, isn't it?"
The trembling Jews heard this news, lined up side by side, and rushed towards the town of freedom.
Several days later, the Nazi demon Amon Goeth in the film was sentenced to death by hanging. Before the execution, Goeth's last words were: "Heil Hitler!"
Obviously, this is not an apology.
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