Can a feeble apology save someone's life?
The answer is no. Then why apologize?
Because people need justice.
For the fifteen years Gary spent behind bars, for the life of old Conlon stranded in a cage, for the years of all those who have been wronged and the truth that those who died in terrorist attacks should know, this sentence Sorry it shouldn't and can never be too late.
At the beginning of the film, the gentle narrative rhythm kept my emotions very flat. With the deepening of the film, I gradually found that all the emotions have already been paved in the first half, just like a stream of streams converging in a river, just waiting for the time to open, and it will pour thousands of miles into the ocean.
Whether so-called anger or sympathy, their generation is not abrupt. Every plot in the movie will not bluntly demand that the audience should cry here, and must be angry there, otherwise you will not be able to keep up with the emotional trend of the whole show.
But at the beginning, we watched it with the mentality of watching the play, but we were already immersed in it, and we felt the same way. When the climax is reached, all sensory cells are mobilized, as if the next moment will be the same as the protagonist in the story or the curtain call.
This is a spiritual feast brought to us by excellent directors and actors.
In the film, the authorities arrested everyone related to Gary: friends, aunts, fathers...even children were said to be accomplices who helped carry the bombs. Everyone has no chance to defend themselves, as if watching people scolding and abandoning themselves with their fingers, but they can only be nailed to the pillar of shame.
Even though everyone, including the police, knew that they were wronged, no one planned to reverse the case. At first, Gary refused to save himself. Later, when he tried to break through the imprisonment, he was ruthlessly suppressed by the authorities. Old Conlon refused to sign on medical parole.
So old Conlon finally died of lung disease.
Then Gary started to stand up alone, fighting alone.
Seeing this, it can be said that it is very sad. It is full of satire and despair at the rulers of the authorities.
Even if the case is finally overturned, Gary's father is still dead, the truth that he was late fifteen years, and the shady tactics that the police later used against their conscience, it would be too sad to say only one word of sorry.
I wronged you, sorry.
Sorry for killing your dad because of oversight.
After fifteen years of struggle, the masses are looking forward to change.
However, even in the end, the so-called beauty and justice still exist only in the slogans of the parade.
The authorities did not give even a single word of apology. Prosecutors and detectives who used to be condescending were just busy looking for a scapegoat.
And this sheep, who knows if it will be the next Gary?
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