" Homecoming ", directed by Rao Xiaozhi , cast Zhang Yi, Wang Junkai , Yin Tao , Li Xuejian , etc., will be released nationwide on September 30.
On September 29th, I went to see the spot . Blast!
137 minutes of the movie, no one left in the middle, no one went to the toilet!
A tearful story!
good movie, proper box office harvester!
became popular before it was released, and the National Day pre-sale box office exceeded 100 million, ranking first.
poster of the movie "Returning Miles", pay attention to the following sentence: The motherland will not give up any of its compatriots. Very important!
The film is of high quality and thoughtful creation, and many of its details truly reflect the real world and spiritual world of Chinese diplomats.
7 hard-core knowledge points, do your homework, explode the viewing experience, and understand the spiritual world of the "suit warriors"!
01
Numia, where is this country? In
"The Journey Home", the general story is that when war broke out in Numia in 2015, Chinese diplomats braved the hail of bullets to cross the line of death to bring Chinese compatriots home safely.
Numia, this country is fictional, there is no such country in the world! The
movie is based on the "2011 Libyan evacuation incident".
Numia, Libya , is it a bit similar?
Actually, Libya used to be called Numia. In the 3rd century BC, Libyans once established a unified kingdom of Numidia.
Li Chen's character in the film is Yang Bin, whose identity is "First Secretary of the Chinese Embassy in the Republic of Tulis".
not only that, the details in the movie are also related to Libya.
For example, Li Chen's character in the film is called Yang Bin, and his identity is "First Secretary of the Chinese Embassy in the Republic of Tulis".
"Tulis" is actually Tunisia , west of Libya.
In the real evacuation incident, Tunisia opened the border channel for the Chinese alone, allowing many Chinese nationals to evacuate into Tunisia.
"Counselor Yan Xingzhou" is arranging the evacuation mission, pay attention to the map behind him, the two circles drawn on the map.
There is another detail: in the movie "Yan Xingzhou, Political Counselor of the Chinese Embassy in Numia", when arranging the evacuation task, he said that the evacuation is divided into two directions, one goes east and the other goes west, and is still on the map Circled on.
In the real event, the evacuation of overseas Chinese from Libya is mainly in two directions: westward, entering the border of Tunisia; eastward, gathering in the Libyan port city of Benghazi, crossing the 360-nautical-mile Mediterranean Sea by boat, and arriving in Greece. Crete in the territory of .
Most of the Chinese compatriots who left Libya came from two directions.
02
What level are the ambassadors, counselors, secretaries, and attachés?
's role in the film:
Li Xuejian as , ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary in Numia;
ChengtaiShen plays the political counselor of the embassy in Numia;
Zhang Yi plays the first secretary of the consular protection center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
Zhang Zixian plays the first secretary of the embassy in Numia;
Wang Junkai plays the attache of the consular protection center of the foreign ministry.
Teacher Li Xuejian's theme poster, playing the role of Lv Yisong, the ambassador to Numia, with not many roles, but it is Dinghai's needle.
Cheng Taishen plays the counselor Yan Xingzhou. I am not familiar with the actor, but his acting skills are excellent.
Zhang Zixian plays the first secretary of the embassy in Numia. I like the performance of "Webmaster Wang" very much.
Wang Junkai's performance is remarkable, come on, little fresh meat!
In terms of positions, the above people are basically arranged from high to low.
is the same as military rank, and Chinese diplomatic envoys abroad also have ranks.
is divided into 7 grades, from high to low:
01 Ambassador (played by Mr. Li Xuejian)
02 Minister
03 Counselor (played by Cheng Taishen, the word reads "Shen", not "Rong")
04 First Secretary (played by Zhang Yi, Zhang Zixian, etc.) )
05 Second Secretary
06 Third Secretary
07 Attaché (played by Wang Junkai)
Ambassador, generally divided into five levels, the first level is the deputy ministerial ambassador, the second level is the director level, the third and fourth level is the deputy director level ambassador or Consul, the fifth level is the division-level ambassador or consul.
At present, Chinese ambassadors abroad are all at the deputy director level and above, of which the second and third level account for the vast majority.
Counselors should generally be at the deputy hall level, but also at the main hall level.
Cheng Taishen plays the political counselor, somewhat similar to the "deputy director" of the embassy, who presides over the work of the embassy. There are also many types of
counselors, such as political counselors, commercial counselors, economic counselors, cultural counselors and so on.
Judging from the name, you can probably guess that the counselor is in charge of a certain field of the embassy's business.
First-class secretary, usually the head or deputy division. Zong Dawei of the
movie is honored as "Zong Chu", and Zhang Ning is honored as "Zhang Chu". The entourage played by
Wang Junkai is generally a staff member.
03
First Secretary (played by Zhang Yi and others), what is he responsible for?
This is a bit complicated, it is the core of the scene in the movie, let's focus on this.
I said it in my own way, make sure you can understand it.
translated themed posters. Over the past few years, Zhang Yi has been a movie sign.
Zhang Yi plays "Zong Dawei", he is the first secretary of the Consular Protection Center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
First, what does a consul do?
According to statistics, in 2019, 1.69 Chinese domestic residents went abroad!
Note that it is outbound, not inbound and outbound, not counting Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.
You must know that in the 30 years before the reform and opening up, only 280,000 people left the country.
So many people go abroad to go to school, to do business, to open a company, to travel, to work, etc. Who is in charge of passports, visas, weddings, funerals, birth, old age, sickness and death, life safety, legal rights and disputes?
consul is here!
After you go abroad, you have to go back to China, which is another mess, who will take care of it?
Consul is in charge!
You want to go abroad and foreigners want to come to China. It's another mess. Who will take care of it?
Consul is in charge!
Huang Ping, who was evacuated from Libya in 2011, then Director of the Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
quoted Huang Ping, the former Director of the Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Director Huang Ping personally participated in the 2011 Libyan evacuation incident) :
Consular service is a two-way service, serving both Chinese people and foreigners who come to China. All in all, consuls are making arrangements for people's cross-border exchanges.
Second question: Consul and ambassador, what is the difference?
Simply put, an ambassador is the highest diplomatic representative stationed abroad, but its main mission is diplomacy;
a consul is a government representative who is stationed in the other country, and its main responsibility is to protect the rights and interests of Chinese citizens and legal persons, because he After all, Chinese consuls serve the Chinese people.
Third question: What is the Consular Protection Center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs?
I checked the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. There are 29 departments under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, one of which is the Consular Protection Center.
Consular Protection Center, also known as Consular Division. Its job responsibilities include what I just said about the consul's work.
Screenshot of the official website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Consular Protection Center, one of the many subordinate agencies of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In short, for all those who go out of the country, when they are in trouble, the consular protection agency can help you deal with it properly.
Consular Protection Center, how many people are there?
, the then director of Huang Ping, said when interacting with netizens in 2013: 15 people!
(I'm also surprised that there are so few people, it's not too busy! I don't know how many people are there now?)
Okay, now back to the topic.
Zhang Yi plays "Zong Dawei", he is the first secretary of the Consular Protection Center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the
movie, he should be a good comrade who "moves where needed", professionally responsible for various evacuation of overseas Chinese, including coups, earthquakes, plagues, tsunamis and so on.
Fourth question: about the first secretary.
The "secretary" in a diplomat is different from a secretary in secretarial work.
First-class secretary, generally important business officials.
In large and medium-sized embassies, the first secretary is often responsible for important business affairs, or serves as the person in charge of a certain office, and handles some political or transactional negotiations with the outside world.
In some small embassies, the first secretary sometimes has the status of second in command.
Question 5: There are 3 people in the movie who are first-class secretaries, what is the difference between them?
Zong Dawei played by Zhang Yi, the first secretary of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Consular Protection Center;
Zhang Ning played by Zhang Zixian, the first secretary of the Chinese Embassy in Numia;
Yang Bin played by Li Chen, the Chinese Embassy in Tulis First-class secretary;
First-class secretary, their titles are the same, but the specific work division and affiliation are different.
"The Journey Home" movie stills.
04
Who is the prototype of the ambassador played by Li Xuejian? In the
movie, Mr. Li Xuejian's role is not much, but he is the needle of Dinghai in the movie!
He plays the ambassador of Numia, whose character is called "Lu Yisong". The prototype of
was Wang Wangsheng, the then ambassador to Libya.
Teacher Li Xuejian's poster (left), Ambassador Wang Wangsheng (right), do you feel a bit similar?
But in fact, I feel that Mr. Li Xuejian's role in the movie is more like a group portrait of ambassadors during the evacuation time!
2011年撤侨事件中的大使：
驻利比亚大使：王旺生
驻希腊大使：罗林泉
驻突尼斯大使：火正德
驻马耳他大使：张克远
驻埃及大使：宋爱国
275个Hours, 35,860 people were evacuated from Libya!
The fire is on! Where are the more than 30,000 people
? How did
inform them? Where does
go? How to withdraw?
So it needs ambassadors to relay:
Simply put, Ambassador Wang Wangsheng is responsible for "delivery", and other ambassadors are responsible for "receiving from outside".
Ambassador Wang Wangsheng in Libya is responsible for finding, counting, contacting, gathering, organizing, and transporting these compatriots, and trying to get them to go out;
The ambassadors from other countries are responsible for receiving, ferrying to third countries, and chartering flights to send them back home.
media combed the Libyan evacuation memorabilia and roadmap. Such a big action must be a national and team battle. Of the 35,860 Chinese compatriots evacuated by
, about 20,000 were evacuated by sea, of which 13,185 were evacuated from , , the Greek island of Crete.
05
Zong Dawei (played by Zhang Yi), why does he always hold his passport when he is in danger?
because Zong Dawei is holding up the diplomatic passport .
Diplomatic passport, his only weapon.
Movie stills: When Zong Dawei was kidnapped, he held his only weapon - a diplomatic passport. One of the footage from
's media report: Zong Dawei holds up his diplomatic passport.
Diplomatic passports are not the same as our ordinary passports: diplomatic passports have more rights!
First of all, the color is different : The cover of the Chinese diplomatic passport is bright red, commonly known as "red passport"; while the ordinary passport, the cover is jujube red.
Diplomatic passport and ordinary passport.
followed by a different cover : on the cover of the diplomatic passport, in addition to the nationality and national emblem, the Chinese and English words "diplomatic passport" are also printed. The most important thing about
is that the content is different: the first page of the passport is printed with "This passport is valid for travel to all countries in the world. The government of the People's Republic of China invites the military and administrative agencies of various countries to facilitate the passage of the passport holder and provide necessary assistance".
The most important point is different: holds a diplomatic passport and enjoys diplomatic courtesy in foreign countries, such as respect, courtesy,Diplomatic privileges, immunities, etc., of course, depend on the laws of the other country. In the
movie, Zong Dawei frequently raised his diplomatic passport, hoping to get more help in the hail of bullets.
06
The experience of evacuating overseas Chinese from Libya was written into the movie lines
In 2011, from the start to the last person arriving in Beijing, no one was lost!
" can find people, talk and do it "! The phrase
has become the experience summed up by Chinese diplomats in the evacuation of overseas Chinese, and they are trying to extract excellent practices in the mechanism.
In March 2018, the "Consular Protection and Assistance Regulations (Draft)" began to solicit comments. The introduction of the
"Regulations (Draft)" is the implementation of this experience.
In the movie, the counselor "Yan Xingzhou" said this sentence as a request for the evacuation of overseas Chinese.
07
在北京，外交部领事保护中心的墙上写着一行字：
“中国有十三亿人口，我们珍惜每一位同胞的生命。”
这句话和电影情节无关，但却是电影《 The soul of "Homecoming" is also the original intention of the "suit warriors"!
