in father's name
The conflict between the UK and Northern Ireland, I have heard of it, but this is the first time I have seen such a film. The Irish Republican Army is a force of resistance. In Northern Ireland and the British government, basically all the people in Northern Ireland are soldiers. After the British soldiers find the suspect, many civilians will come out to cover, create chaos, and mess with the British army. scolding littering.
In a Northern Irish family, the father is an honest person. Perhaps the problem of education is too strict, so that the child develops a rebellious mentality, and he has made various petty things to disappoint his father since he was a child. A stolen item was mistaken for an IRA, and there was a conflict with the IRA, and his father told him to leave his hometown for the UK. I stayed in a hippie hotel in the UK. Many British people also looked down on Northern Irish people, because bombings often occurred in the United Kingdom at that time, and most of the sources were Northern Irish people. Under the conflict, he and his friends left the hotel and wandered around. On the street, they saw a lady drop something. He kindly stopped her, but she ignored her. The man who picked her up said he was not qualified. He picked up the thing on the ground, it was the key to the woman's house, he didn't do anything after going in, just lay on the bed. Scattered feet accidentally found a lot of money wrapped in a ball of stockings. Take the money and leave. That night, there was an explosion in a bar. He and some friends were identified as the murderers. He was taken directly from his home to the police station for questioning. Torture began to extract confessions. Compared with China's past torture, the British method was very civilized, but it still violated human rights. There is no evidence, just to solve the case as soon as possible, to give an explanation to the angry British, and find a group of hippies with low social status to take the blame. In the case of non-cooperation, he used threats, put a gun in his mouth, or threatened to kill his father, etc., and obtained a confession of guilt. However, there is no conviction, and a court trial is required.
They also have their own defense lawyer, but I don't know whether the defense lawyer is incompetent or perfunctory, and his defense is not enough to make the judge and jury change their hatred and discrimination against Northern Irish people. So, at the end of the first half, he and a few friends were still playing games and laughing. At the beginning of the second half, it didn't take long for the result to come down. The severity of the conviction is simply staggering. Almost everyone gets thirty or forty years in prison. He was the principal offender and was sentenced to life imprisonment, and his father and aunt were also sentenced as accessory offenders. In prison, he has lost his human qualifications, is a criminal of the highest level, and is locked up with murderers.
But let me say, the conditions in that prison are also very good, compared to the prison in Shawshank, the room is very spacious, and he is locked with his father. All kinds of pictures can be posted in the room, there are bookshelves, and there is a tape recorder. You can see him smoking at any time. He and his fellow prisoners also have an entertainment room, where everyone takes drugs together. The prison guards did not beat people at every turn, but they resisted from time to time, especially an Irish Republican Army, who voluntarily admitted that he was the murderer of the bombing, but no one paid attention to the retrial of the case. But after he went to prison, he made various picture posters with them and hung them up to resist.
When this man first came in, he looked like a decent man, and he looked a little more refined, but he believed in violence. Facing the discrimination of British prisoners against Northern Irish prisoners, he directly took action, which the protagonist appreciates. In comparison, he felt that his father was useless. Be on your own. This is actually worth reflecting on. The father chose to appeal in the legal way to resist, and he even had a good relationship with the prison guards. But what IRA chooses is to suppress violence with violence, and it is human dignity to resist violently when oppressed. But until one time, the so-called violence, he set a prison guard on fire with an alcohol lighter, and when he saw a man howling in the fire, he felt that there was something wrong with the so-called violence. After this he turned to his father. This also shows the kindness in the heart of the protagonist and the compassion for people. If violence is used because of a person's race, what is the difference between him and others.
After 15 years in prison, his father passed away from the disease. Finally, the opportunity for a retrial of the case came. A female lawyer heard about his case and ran around to find evidence. The process of retrial should be very simple. A few simple pieces of evidence reversed, none of which had been presented before. But now that he has seen the light of day, it is only because of the insistence of a lawyer that he has regained his freedom. But as a result, the police who convicted wrongly were not punished, the father's death was not explained, and the prison did not mention compensation for more than ten years in vain. These are all follow-ups. Looking at the barrage, maybe they can get such a retrial opportunity just because the relationship between the UK and Northern Ireland has eased. Still lucky. Otherwise, such an injustice is likely to last a lifetime. Maybe the prison conditions are good, and it is easy to reverse the case. When I watched the poster of the film, the male protagonist's face was square and filled up the poster, and I thought he would play a big role. But Jiang is still old and spicy, so it was named after his father. (4.10)
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