I often wonder what true bravery is.
Everyone wants to be Spiderman, Batman, Superman, even Monkey King,
Not only because there are too many injustices in this society,
Also because they can draw on outside forces
Become an imaginary hero.
But the real bravery is not whether the circumference of the fist is big enough,
But the inner strength is not strong enough.
Danish film A Better World,
Through a school violence incident gave us a thought about bravery and cowardice.
The film won the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards.
Crows Solve Crows' Problems
Nishikawa has a poem: "The crow solves the crow's problem, and I solve my problem."
Life throws us a lot of questions while giving us all kinds of emotional experiences.
Elias is a child who is suffering from school violence,
Every day he has to face the senior students who are entangled at the school gate and call him "mouse face",
Every day after school, I have to face the bicycle being deflated.
To make matters worse, the classmates in the class looked down on him,
The mere mention of his name elicits a burst of laughter.
Christian is a child who just lost his mother,
Mother unfortunately passed away from cancer.
He missed his mother very much, but he couldn't understand his father either.
He believes that his father gave up his mother's life,
So he buried a kind of hatred in his heart,
He is used to protecting himself and others with stubbornness.
Elias' parents are a estranged couple,
Both are doctors. Dad Anton does medical aid work in refugee areas in Africa,
He has to face all kinds of scenes of bloodshed every day,
Also face the change of marriage.
Mom Marianne besides having to face her son
Being bullied at school every day and having to bear the impact of separation on the character of the child.
Living while giving everyone problems,
Hope they can find the right solution too.
brave and cowardly
In the eyes of children, being brave is winning, and being brave in the eyes of adults is reconciliation.
Reconciliation is leaving a place in the heart for that person to come in,
This is not patience, nor tolerance.
Elias' cowardice was seen by Christian,
He decided to stand up for him,
He goes to school with a pump and a knife
Repaired that senior.
In the eyes of adults, the child's unintentional mistake this time,
But it is an opportunity for children to declare their status.
Christian wants to use this to tell people at school
He's not a bully,
In his worldview you bullied me,
I will definitely give it back to you.
In Christian's father's worldview, forgiving others is more important,
Because they understand war and understand that endless revenge is the beginning of war.
During a park event,
All the fates are linked together.
Anton took his three children to the park to play, but he didn't expect the children to grab the swing.
What was originally a trivial matter immediately escalated into an adult conflict.
Although Anton was violent, he did not fight back.
Just leave with the kids.
Several children were very angry when they saw their father being pushed and slapped.
On the other hand, I feel that my father's performance is very cowardly.
And Anton wanted to tell his son that he was not afraid,
Just don't want to be a guy who abuses his fist over others.
In order to let a few children let go of their revenge,
He took the child to find the man who was throwing his fists.
I thought I could make this adult man apologize, but it backfired.
The man not only insulted Anton, but slapped Anton again.
"60 Minutes" reporter Wallace once said:
"Because of all the bad guys you think
I don't even think I'm wrong. "
Anton still didn't fight back, because he didn't want such a thing to become a cycle,
He also knew that such people were just using their brute force to show off their power.
If man is graded, he is the lowest.
He comforted the children that his face didn't hurt, just to not want the children to take revenge for holding grudges.
However, children's comprehension is limited.
Winning or losing is more important in their values,
They don't understand why their dad isn't brave and why he doesn't fight back.
This unhappy breakup has accumulated resentment in their hearts.
They felt that the bad uncle didn't lose,
At least in his eyes he is strong.
They want justice, and they want to teach the man who abused his fists a good lesson.
So the two children made bombs with black powder at home.
It also laid the groundwork for this unnecessary tragedy.
In the eyes of children, Anton is a coward.
In the eyes of adults, Anton is a naive adult.
How can you slap me in the real world, not only do I not blame you,
People who continue to stick their faces out to you?
I am reminded of the Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci who wrote in her autobiography "Never Compromise": "Childhood is a talent I value very much because it comes from trusting people, love for people."
Anton's "naive" is based on his belief in the inherent goodness of human nature,
It is also his tolerance for the dirty side of the world.
forgive sin
There are not many people who live in normal circumstances.
What is truly admirable are people who can maintain normal life in abnormal circumstances.
He is not polluted by the filth of human nature,
Still have conscience, still have faith.
Anton works as a doctor in a refugee area in Africa.
Every day is bound to face many lives and deaths.
But in the midst of so many lives and deaths, there are still a lot of people hurting each other.
The 'big man' is the bully in this refugee district, often cutting open girls' belly just to bet on the baby's gender,
The lucky woman was sent to the rescue area,
Unfortunate women can only let their lives die in silly jokes.
But everything happens for a reason.
This notorious "big man" came to the camp for treatment because of a leg injury.
Everyone knows that standing on a moral standpoint,
You shouldn't try to save someone who is playing with other people's lives,
He should have left his legs to rot and died in the disgust and scolding of the people.
And Anton saved the "big man" out of professional ethics,
But what he did emotionally and morally remains an unforgivable fact.
Especially when the "big man" made a malicious joke on the woman he had just mutilated,
He'd be angry too, but his angry fists were helpless restraint after he'd used up sympathy and pity.
If the definition of bravery is built on fists and above others,
Anton is not a brave person, but in the definition of human brilliance,
He dares to face life and death, face sin, insist on his professional ethics, abandon his emotions, and give full play to the spirit of humanitarianism.
In the face of repeated incomprehension, I still insist on my belief in a better world.
I am reminded of Linda's "Beautiful as Liberty," which is a collection of paintings about children who were brutalized in Jewish concentration camps during World War II.
In this book, it is mentioned: "The reason why people are human is to have "humanity", to have love and sympathy for the weak, and after sweeping away human nature, "science and reason" may become an excuse for a very terrible evil.
We can't use anger as a reason to take revenge on others,
Nor can it take the place of reason or the law to punish others.
We have no right to decide the life and death of others.
In fact, as long as the whole world is sorry for me, it is all directed at my emotions, and everyone can recover from the pain.
superficially powerful
In this movie, the pump and the knife in the eyes of children are weapons that can make others fear themselves.
In the eyes of the savage man Lars, his fist is a weapon to teach others a lesson, and it is also a source of unreasonable trouble.
In the eyes of the "big man", his own knife and gun are tools that can decide the life and death of others.
Human life was worthless in his eyes.
He sees himself as a man of power, and as his friend he is entitled to power.
This right also includes deciding the life and death of others.
But in Anton's eyes, life cannot be easily given up,
It's like not giving up on anyone who has stopped breathing.
Chai Jing wrote in "Seeing": "Only by deeply understanding things can we understand and understand the complexity of people and the world, and have the habit of thinking that is not easy to criticize and praise."
We cannot blame children for using ignorant anger as a weapon of revenge,
Because as an adult, no one can easily balance the grievances against the dark world.
We only have a constant understanding and understanding of human nature,
Only then can you truly see the world in peace.
Power sometimes goes far beyond the surface.
better world
Throughout the film, everyone is working for a better world.
Children work hard for justice and help the weak,
Even if they get into a big disaster, they take the initiative to take the blame for each other.
Although their approach is very naive, they are using their own methods to make the world a better place.
Anton worked hard to save every life in order to reduce the number of patients in this distressed area.
Christian's father had to give up his wife's life in order to save the child's mother in the last stage of her life.
In the adult world,
Sometimes it's harder to give up than to hold on.
In real life, everyone faces various problems.
life problems, education problems, family problems, work problems,
But in the face of life and death, these have become small problems.
When it comes to death, we are all equal.
When people are about to leave the world, they will become like children,
Because at the end of life we have to return to the original innocence and kindness.
The closest we come to death is when a loved one dies,
Then we will see death, though only for a moment,
But it is enough to make the living people love life more,
Willing to believe that the world can be a better place.
Such "rebirth" will make us cherish life even more,
I also understand more about how difficult it is to live in this world, so I will be less censured and more tolerant.
You can reconcile with anyone you want.
As long as you work hard, the world will eventually become a better place.
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