At the beginning, there was no verbal explanation. In a quiet environment, a skinny old man committed suicide by cutting his wrist. What came to his face was the sound of a sharp blade cutting his skin and the sensory stimulation of blood rushing out. This unreasonable bloody impact heralds the arrival of a storm.
Then, the story officially kicked off.
However, the sudden riots trapped the prison guard Juan, who was familiar with the environment a day in advance, in cell 211. He pretends to be a new prisoner in a hurry, gaining the trust of Scar, the leader of the riot, while looking for an opportunity to escape. Unexpectedly, this group of thugs did not intend to escape or reduce their sentence, but to fight for basic human rights in prison. The fuse was also coming from the previous post in cell 211—the old man who committed suicide—who had a serious tumor, but was misdiagnosed as dysentery by an irresponsible prison doctor, and finally ended himself in pain.
Juan is obviously wiser than these simple-minded hooligans, and his grasp of the situation several times has allowed him to gradually establish his prestige among the prisoners. But whenever he gets close to his whole body infinitely and retreats, unexpected events always make him look at the iron gate and sigh. The first major turning point of the film is that Juan’s pregnant wife came after hearing the news, but was killed and killed in the chaos. This made Juan lose his mind. In the negative attitude of the government’s inaction, he gradually moved towards achieving it through personal violence. The road to justice. And when he fired the prison guard who killed his wife by wrong hand in great grief and anger, he was no longer an actor, but a rebel who was more terrifying than a mob.
What is even more unexpected is that in order to prevent the truth of the accident from leaking out, the representative of the government managed to draw Scar to get rid of Juan, but was flatly rejected by Scar. It cannot be denied that Scar is still the inviolable villain. He still emphasizes that even if God does not dare to deceive him, he will never accept the government's lure and become a running dog. At this moment, the hooligans wear a halo of courtesy, justice and shame, while politicians wear a vile and insidious cloak.
Of course, there is more than one inner ghost who is willing to sell their souls, and the old Lajue of the government will not pin their hopes on only one person. In the end, Juan and Scar were knocked down by a dark arrow. Hu An, who is both righteous and evil, failed to even shout a slogan, so he was so aggrieved and even wimply left with his wife and children. Unsurprisingly, the inner ghost was not fulfilled after the incident subsided. He obviously did not know that the government's other name is treachery.
In short, the people who don't know the truth are caused by the government's information shielding; the superficial resolution of conflicts is also achieved by the government through brutal suppression. Interspersed with the accident investigation in the film, the party’s logically chaotic answer coupled with an upright attitude fully portrays the face of a stability-maintaining government. The film also came to an end with the prison guard's sentence "Are there any questions?"
The mainstream western culture has always been suspicious and critical of the government. Just like the protagonist of this film, a good citizen, even a member of the violent machine, has stood on the opposite side of the so-called order under the pressure of the government. This also allows us to reflect on whether law and procedural justice, originally born out of public order and good customs, should serve human freedom and fairness, or are they destined to become a tool for the government to crush all obstacles to maintaining stability?
The history of this dynasty is also the same. All peasant uprisings have been full of demands for justice, but the leaders of the rebel army are always full of rascals and villains. Even if the resistance is victorious, in the battle for the final fruits of success, there will always be competition for who is more shameless. Of course, history is written by victors, who will always beautify the dark side of the revolution.
After watching the film, the contrast in my mind is that the tangible walls in the film and the invisible cages in reality, no matter where they are, resistance and oppression are always staged. But even if moral justice has to be accompanied by formal violence, it is still not worth the dirty trade under the glamorous appearance. Suddenly he became very pessimistic. On the road of fighting for freedom and human rights, if the blood of treacherous evil is not allowed to penetrate oneself, will the end of the resistance be destined to be a tragedy.
The spoof of the PS subtitle group made me totally unable to sink into this tragedy. . .
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