《秋菊打官司》中村长困惑的背后,隐藏着中国传统政治逻辑,展现着基层民众和普通官员在政府治理模式转向法治过程中的困惑与选择。文章指出,秋菊的官司实质上是一场解决官民矛盾的官司。如何在建立现代理性化政治体制的改革中兼顾和吸纳中国传统吏治的人情逻辑,使法治改革更能够适合中国的土壤,是影片留给我们的问题,也是中国依法治国过程中留给整个社会的问题。一个视觉形象究竟象征什么,取决于目睹这一形象的人的心灵……哪怕是国旗,也不例外。对一个缺乏诗意的人来说,国旗也不过是块布片罢了。~① Behind the perplexity of “the lawsuit of Qiu Ju”, hidden behind the traditional Chinese political logic, the grass-roots public and ordinary officials are showing the confusion and choices in the course of governing from government to rule of law. The article points out that the lawsuit of Qiu Ju is essentially a lawsuit that resolves the contradictions between officials and citizens. How to reconcile and absorb the human logic of China’s traditional official administration in the reform of establishing a modern rationalized political system so that the rule of law reform can better fit the soil of China is a question left to us by the film and also left to the entire society by the process of governing the country according to law problem. What a visual image actually symbolizes depends on the soul of the person who witnessed the image ... even the national flag is no exception. For a poetic person, the national flag is nothing more than a piece of cloth. ~ ①