Let us fall into mediocrity together

Margaretta 2021-12-14 08:01:09

When I was a child, I watched TV and I always divided the people in the play into good people and bad guys. Therefore, in the young mind, there is always fear for the good people, secretly anxious, and cursing the bad guys not to die.
As I grow up, I find that the dichotomy between good and bad guys is a bit naive. Humans are too complicated animals, and the study of human nature is destined to face chaos in the end, which is unclear.
The world is turbulent, all beings, they do good, they do evil, sometimes one person gathers the two in one, and divides people into two distinct camps with good and evil, which is not appropriate.
The founding princes of the past dynasties, which one is not killing people, which one is not meritorious, are they good people or bad guys?
A man in the wild, unable to withstand the persecution of the officials or the powerful, or secretly stumbling, and drew their swords in anger. Are they good people or bad guys? (One more sentence, I suddenly think of an example, the prototype of the protagonist in Jin Yong's novel "Liancheng Jue". This story is explained very clearly in the postscript of "Liancheng Jue".)
So, the question of whether a person is a good person or a bad person is judged from the moral point of view. , Put it aside for now.
However, this does not affect people's self-promotion in life. You say that you are my good person, which means that it is harmless to me and easy to win trust.
The government is the best person advertised in a group, and the police station should be the good person among the good people, because his duty is to protect the public's interests from harm. To advertise a good person is not necessarily a good person, because the person who works in it is also a living person. He wants to eat, have love, and has greed... In short, he is also a person.
What if the police advertised as good people go bad, and there is more than one person, but a bureau, and they become a community of interests. This situation is not impossible. It is said that in a certain era in the last century, police corruption in Hong Kong was rampant and corrupt.
The "Blood Splatter No. 13 Police Station" to be mentioned here is also a similar situation. The upright policeman Ronnick, who was injured in the mission, was assigned to work in a remote police station after he recovered from his injuries. On Christmas Eve with heavy snowfall, this remote police station ushered in a prison car blocked by the heavy snow. There were four prisoners in the prison, and one of them was Bishop, the notorious gang leader. Ronnick never expected that the arrival of the prisoners was a planned kill.
Bishop was arrested for unequal distribution of interests with a sergeant. The sergeant deliberately escorted him to this remote No. 13 police station for the purpose of killing others. The sheriff brought a large number of subordinates to perform this task, and he did not expect to encounter Ronnick, who was upright and ignorant of current affairs. On this unusual Christmas Eve, in order to escape his birth, Ronnick released four prisoners and formed a united front to fight foreign enemies together. This night, the accustomed good and evil had a shocking reversal. The police chief outside the police station did everything possible, and Ronnick and the prisoners in the police station also began to cooperate to play down the stumbling block of good and evil.
After a night of bloody battles, Ronnick, Bishop and a female policeman saved their lives, but the other people who had resisted in the police station with him (three prisoners, four police officers, one of the veteran police officers) In the end, it turned out to be the spy, and a psychiatrist of Ronnick) have paid the price of their lives.
Ronnick, who ran away after daybreak, was not happy at all. He once felt ashamed and hated that his colleague was killed during his mission. He was killed by the agency), and now, his colleagues are going to kill themselves in order to kill Bishop this night. I don't know how he would feel. The film ends at this time. I think he is likely to leave his job and stop working as a policeman.
The old spies in the film once said that they just wanted to kill Bishop. If Ronnick asked them to take Bishop away from the beginning, there would not be so much trouble. Perhaps, he asked them to take Bishop's name at the time.
However, at the beginning, he didn't know that his colleagues were outside. He thought it was the gangster who rescued Bishop, so he couldn't give in. After he knows that he is his peer, the peer will never let him go again.
In any case, Ronnick in the film is lucky, he fights side by side with the villain Bishop in time.
But movies are movies after all, and people in reality are far from being so lucky.
I have watched a film about the corruption of Hong Kong police officers mentioned above. At the end of the film, it was mentioned that because there were too many corrupt police officers, in the end, they could only deal with a batch of corrupt giant crocodiles, which seemed to have caused a police strike in the end. Rebellion, so ordinary corruption is gone. However, Hong Kong has since then had the Independent Commission Against Corruption.
Corruption is inevitable, but the most terrible thing is that the entire system has problems. They can reach an agreement and do nothing. If you are in that system, you cannot be alone. Terrible?
I think of a story on the Internet, a certain senior official was in jail, his son graduated from university, and his job was not settled. He went to jail to visit the prison and cried to his father. The father said that he would open a note for you, who to look for, and the son said that people go tea cold, and you are on duty. Perhaps opening the sliver still works, is it still working now? My father said that before I was in office, whoever wanted to be an official was allowed to be an official. Now I am in prison, whoever wants to come in must come in.
I also think of Tsui Hark's "Knife", the world is difficult and dangerous, and those who are strong will not end well. The monk went out of justice and was finally killed by Xiao Xiao.
The people call corrupt officials a badass, while those accomplices who have not been confessed call them good people. We think that the monk is a knight, and the monk Xiao Xiaokan is a villain. The Ronnick in the movie we watched is a good person, and the unwilling sheriff, undoubtedly, thinks Ronnick is extremely hateful.
Who is good and who is bad, this question is actually quite a fucking question.
Why bother, no matter where you live, let us fall into mediocrity together, stop discussing, let us do good and evil together.
Alas, sometimes I miss my childhood. At that time, good people will always do good things, and bad people will always do bad things.

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Assault on Precinct 13 quotes

  • Sgt. Jasper O'Shea: Those girls are dead.

    Iris Ferry: [Everyone looks at Jasper stunned at what happened without hope] . We don't have a God damned chance. Do we? Sarge!

    [frustrated at Jake's lack of response]

    Iris Ferry: . Sarge, God fucking damn it! The five of us can't hold them back. They're going to take out each and everyone of us. What are we suppose to do, Sarge?

    [Jake zones out as he asks himself that question]

    Iris Ferry: . What are we supposed? What the fuck are we supposed to do?

    [Everyone continues to glance at Jake as he ponders Iris's plead for help]

    Jake Roenick: [clueless and hopeless] I don't know.

    [Jake leaves the room while Jasper, Iris, and Bishop look on]

  • [repeated lines]

    Jake Roenick: So, our shit's still on pause. Is that it?

    Marion Bishop: Yeah, our shit's on pause.