I simply read some short reviews, and everyone can't praise this drama. Maybe the thrill of revenge at the end made everyone's 2 and a half hours of grief get the release of pleasure and revenge. But I firmly decided to play 1⭐ after the story developed to 2/3.
Of course I must have been pissed. At first, she was angry at being humiliated and insulted by Grace, and angry at the oppression and exploitation of the townspeople without a lower limit. But gradually, my anger stopped, and I began to question grace herself. I'm sure to be accused of victim guilt though late. I have to admit that Grace who doesn't resist resolutely and bears silently annoys me. But instead of being angry, I was more confused, why didn't I fight? She evaded capture just to be a slave to 15 people in this town? Later I understood, where is she a victim, she is a practitioner of idealism. Yes, with me, she is not a victim at all. The real victims are the fearful, the weak, the powerless. She doesn't count at all, she's not afraid of them, and it's not that she can't leave alone. Although she was bullied, she was still free and never violently treated before she was hung up on the chain. She chose to endure it all. People who are patient are waiting for an opportunity, she I don't know what I'm waiting for? Being saved in the end is also passive. She's like a robot, she doesn't have the most basic self-esteem as a person. You can resist without resisting, you can justify without arguing, you can escape without escaping. Seeing her reminds me of a scumbag who favors traitorous officials, who knows everything but doesn't act. The traitor should be killed, but shouldn't the faint-hearted ruler be scolded? In addition, apart from the heroine's character setting, the play is not a normal person, and the hypocrisy and cruelty of the villagers seem reasonable, but it doesn't make sense. If it is said that grace lacks the self-esteem that people should have, it is unreasonable that none of the villagers have sympathy. Don't say that they showed compassion in helping the heroine at first. At that time, the heroine was really not miserable. She was an outsider. It was normal to accept her or not. At that time, their disunity attitude was the most humane. But when she was working like a dog and being chained like a dog, they could accept it calmly. Even if they said that their attitude towards the heroine had changed at that time, everyone who saw it felt cruel and pitiful. They didn't even have a bit of ideological struggle, let alone regret afterwards. Gulu was so tempted by the Lord of the Rings that he still struggled in his heart, but they were really at ease.
In addition, as a fictional small society, it wants to show the extreme evil of human nature, but ignores the collectivism of people in social life. Tom looked like a leader, but in fact he was not at all, he was always just a convener, but let everyone carry forward the democratic system. But this is impossible, any organization will form small groups and emerge leaders. When the collective is involved, there is bound to be a confrontation between individual opinions and collective will. In Han Ying's unexpected guests, how the kind-hearted villagers became executioners is really a tragedy under collectivism. But this movie makes everyone have a unified bad morality, so consistent, without the slightest reservation of kindness, even children are the heirs of evil. Let’s talk about World War II. The Germans were also brainwashed by Hitler. How could these townspeople be free to act like this? They feel that giving favors is a great power, which can give them the illusion of a class promotion. I know that the poor will bully the poorer, but no matter how I look at the background of this movie, I can't convince me. I can only say that the heroine cooperates with them very well. Until they believed it. Talking about movies about human nature, but in the end, all I saw were performance art created by characters from two factions that did not conform to human nature. If anyone was the most acceptable character, maybe it was Tom who talked and farted. Because he is most like the kind of person that exists in life. A set of PUAs.
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