Adapted from the real social events of "Teflon" that shocked the world, exposing the shady side of the huge enterprise DuPont Group, the integrity lawyer Robert used 1/2 of his career to engage in a 20-year hard tug of war with the giant company, Mark Ruffer Lowe, Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins, and other Oscar-caliber stars... That's right! This is "Black Water"!
01 Ideals and beliefs
It is cowardly and even hypocritical idealism to look away from the suffering of life and the fragility of the soul. Maybe Robert was like this at the beginning. As a corporate lawyer, Robert's job is to defend large chemical companies, and when farmer Tannon finds him hoping to defend the death of his livestock, he is confused, the antithesis of his job, and simply shirks rejection and turns around Going back to the meeting. When Tannon said it was because his grandmother found him, his refusal was a little more euphemistic. Afterwards, in view of the relationship between his grandmother and the villagers, Robert decided to help Tannon get the investigation report after the on-site inspection of the Environmental Protection Agency. glorious errand. However, people only want to believe what they believe, even though this obsession is often wrong in life. But there are exceptions, and Tannon is one of them. This report shows that the Tannon cows have their own health problems and have nothing to do with chemical pollution. Robert thought he had done what he had to do by submitting the report to Tannon, and that was the end of the matter. But in the face of this report, Tannon obviously couldn't accept the result, and blamed Robert for not distinguishing between true and false, and believed what others said. At this time, Robert must have felt that Tannon was a little stubborn and even troubled. Robert, who was a doctor of law, didn't want to waste words with this illiterate farmer, and was ready to leave. At this moment, Robert witnessed the aggression of the cows, only to realize that it was far from simple.
02 Original intention and choice
Despite this, Robert, who has become a partner of a law firm, will not offend a chemical giant closely related to his business for a farmer who can't even pay for a lawyer's consultation fee. At first, he just wanted to make simple financial transactions through the law. Claim, because he knows the power of capital very well, and he also knows that he wants to challenge an industry giant like DuPont, and he cannot afford it personally. But thinking about the ideal he had when he was studying environmental law: "Environmental law seems to have a real and visible influence on society, and you can change something by practicing it." Tannon's case aroused his original intention. ——The conscience of the law, he felt that he should help Tannon. However, it was this gang that revealed the "black waters" of the DuPont Group for more than half a century - chemical pollution caused hundreds of thousands of people to become sick or die. Look at a person and see the choice he makes at a critical moment. This choice reflects his inner essence. In the face of capital and power, Robert chose the ideal of being a lawyer, the conscience of the industry, and the expectation of justice from the bottom strangers. The real idealism is not a wise man escaping reality, but still fighting in all kinds of disasters and fighting the dark forces to the end. When DuPont used an entire storeroom of more than 110,000 pages of documents to dismantle Robert, he did not shrink back, burying his head in marking one file after another, looking for clues to PFOA. At the chemical union party, Robert and Philip tore their faces. On the way back, his wife reminded him to know what he was doing. Tom also said that Robert should not make things so big. At this time, he may have hesitated, but He believes more in truth and justice. At this point, the real hero Robert began to appear. When the truth is a little bit clearer, the facts are getting heavier and the pressure is increasing day by day. As the case deepened, Robert discovered the shocking conspiracy of the DuPont Group: PFOA repels foreign objects, especially water. It has been used as a waterproof coating for tanks at the beginning, to various civilian items such as Teflon non-stick pans. This industry chain has been developed in all aspects of life. Everyone They all suffer unknowingly. However, using Robert's personal power to reveal the truth that involves the interests of many big people is undoubtedly a mayfly shaking the tree. For this civil dispute, he can only help Tannon and DuPont reach a settlement and seek more compensation. He felt powerless and remorseful for such a result. The ending was doomed from the beginning, and it was meaningless to work hard. Obviously the world shouldn't be like this, but the rules are designed like this, but I can't do anything and can only accept this result. Some people are dressed in bright clothes, full of intrigues and tricks, and they look upright, which is really disgusting. When Robert saw that DuPont issued a notice to 70,000 residents, it was on the surface that it told everyone that there was a problem with the water, but it did not exceed the standard and was safe to drink, but in fact it was to obtain the right of defense after one year (the law stipulates that Since the person concerned realizes that the drinking water is contaminated, a lawsuit must be filed within one year, otherwise the respondent will have the right to defend, and the public will lose the right to legal protection). Deception poisons the truth. Is it bearable, what is unbearable? The expert Robert couldn't stand it anymore and decided to fight DuPont to the end.
03 Money and Reality
How powerful is capital? Thinking of Truman's world makes one shudder. How many organizations and people have been manipulated by capital and become virtual puppets and puppets. In the eyes of the DuPont Group, this lawsuit is nothing more than a pebble thrown into the vast ocean. It is good to have a little splash, but don't expect too much waves. The manipulation power of capital sometimes makes it difficult to control one's own destiny. Robert exhausted everything, which is only a drop in the bucket for DuPont. Not only can they organize an ultra-elite group—a team of lawyers, government officials, scientists, etc.—to escort it, but also guide the development of new safety standards. A cruel fact that has to be accepted: capital is invisibly manipulating our tangible world. In this world, there are you, me, him and her. Does money push people in a more proactive direction or in the opposite? This is a question worth thinking about. When independent scientific panels need to collect blood samples, money has once again shown its ability to get residents to take the initiative to draw blood. One person can get 400 US dollars for a blood draw. Through the method of inducement, the scientific team quickly collected 69,000 blood samples from residents to establish a testing database and launched the largest epidemiological investigation in human history. But this is not the end, it is just the end of the beginning.
04 Time and Value
The passage of time will wash away the old traces, even if it was bloody at the beginning, even if it was deeply imprinted, under the erosion of the old river, there is nothing left. The results of the study are far in the future. During the long wait, Tannon passed away. People also lost their concern about the data results and lost the trust of Robert. They thought that only their unfulfilled settlement money and the pressure of unemployment, and then they angered the Robert family. Robert was also exhausted because of this thankless case, and he could not receive other cases. The financial pressure was very high, which seriously affected the quality of life, and the family atmosphere was once tense. At this time, the whole world seemed to be full of malice towards him. He was isolated and helpless and had nowhere to ask for. Under the high pressure, his health had problems and he fell ill. Fortunately, he has a wife by his side who understands him and supports him; fortunately, his ideals and persistence finally proved that he was right. After a long wait of seven years, a team of scientists finally identified the relationship between PFOA and six serious diseases, kidney cancer, testicular cancer, ulcerative colitis, thyroid disease, hypercholesterolemia, and pregnancy-induced hypertension. I thought we had a bright future, and finally we can breathe a sigh of relief. Unexpectedly, DuPont can blatantly and completely break the contract, make a complete turnaround, reject the rationality of the scientific team's research, and let each claim file a lawsuit against it individually. With thousands of claims, only four to five a year under normal procedures, and this is the year of the monkey, DuPont's rogue-like delaying tactic is distraught and helpless. Robert was extremely desperate that day. He realized in grief and anger that the entire system had been kidnapped by capital. DuPont, the industry giant, did whatever he wanted. Companies, governments, and scientists were all unreliable. They could only rely on themselves.
05 Interests and Conscience
What we see throughout the film is DuPont, an industrial giant with power and wealth, using his money and influence time and time again to get himself out of trial and sanctions. The compensation and litigation fees that DuPont promises to pay is already a huge amount of money at the bottom level, but for DuPont, it is only three days of profits from the Teflon production line, and the giant capital remains unmoved. What we see is that the life of the little people is like a must, and it doesn't matter. What we feel is that Robert's hopes have been lost again and again, and he is helpless in his struggles again and again, and his entire physical and mental health has been continuously consumed in the past twenty years. Human life is so inconspicuous in the face of capital, but the justice in the heart makes it impossible for idealists to sit idly by. We often say that "the one who knows the current affairs is a hero", but what exactly do we mean by the knowledge of the current affairs? Compromise with reality? Bow down to the rich? Morality and interest balance? Bernard Shaw said: "Those who know the current affairs adapt to the society. The people who do not understand the current affairs insist on trying to adapt the world to themselves. Therefore, all progress depends on the people who do not understand the current affairs." Facing the bloodthirsty of capital, there will always be There is a man with a man's arm and a car, and this man enables us to believe in social justice. The conclusion is "people who are paid for everyone, don't let them be caught in the wind and snow", if we are not brave enough and our ability is limited, we can't be such a payee, but we can praise and cheer for such a payee Scream, so that the warriors who are running in loneliness are not afraid of the forerunner.
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