"The whole system is being manipulated, they want us to think that the system can protect us, but in fact it's just a lie, the only one who can protect us is ourselves."
Indeed, many times in the process of watching it, I felt how difficult and powerless it is for an individual to fight against a big company, or an organization, a government, and a system.
The whole film does not have such powerful impassioned and passionate confrontation scenes, but starts from the helplessness and hardships of the male protagonist as a small lawyer in the confrontation process again and again, so that we can feel a system and a system if How dire the consequences of being disrupted by man make us think if the things we've become accustomed to around contain toxic substances, how would we choose, believe or resist?
I saw a lot of hope in the film. The farmer found the male owner willing to help him when he complained about the polluted land on his farm. Confidence; after seven years, the results of the residents' survey are finally out and prove DuPont's insidious cunning...
But what I see is more of despair. The farmer has nowhere to complain again and again, is harassed, hostile and despised again and again; the male owner wants to sue DuPont, in exchange for hundreds of boxes of documents that can never be read; the male owner wants to help Residents tested whether their bodies had been harassed by toxic substances, and in exchange for the residents’ targeting, they exchanged endless harassment for more than ten years of waiting; DuPont tore up the agreement again and refused to fulfill its responsibilities; DuPont relied on its own products to obtain nearly one billion US dollars in revenue every year, and the male protagonist's lawsuit for more than ten years was only in exchange for the residents. Severely injured body...
I have wondered many times where is fairness? I want to ask where is the conscience of the residents who have been kept in the dark and targeted the male protagonist? I have a lot of questions to ask, but the answers to those questions I end up with are that these things will never be answered. The things and characters experienced in these films also exist around us, and even some people are also experiencing them. But in reality, how many people can stand up to the unfair treatment of a big company and a government system like the male protagonist and still remain tenacious?
There are many shocking or impressive scenes in the film. It was the farmer who had no choice but to shoot when he saw his cows were attacked by poisonous water and rushed towards him. Helicopter was hovering over the farmer's house, and the farmer was lying on the ground in front of his house with a shotgun. Looking straight at the sky; it's the black teeth of animals and children; it's the eyes aimed at the residents; it's the male protagonist's strokes and shaking hands under pressure again and again...
These shots together form the helplessness of individuals who want to confront each other, and together form the insidious face behind DuPont. What we need to know is that corruption is not just a company or a government, but an entire system, the helplessness of small individuals in the entire society, and it is shocking to see the film adapted from a true story.
So, what can protect us is the system, the government, or the police? The only one who can protect us is ourselves.
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