The ability to judge right and wrong is far more important than knowledge

Dayana 2022-04-21 09:03:34

I have roughly read the record of the real incident, and it is generally more faithful to the original work. In particular, the conversation between the defendant and the lawyer in the court is also directly copied from the court record. Of course, the family of the accident person and the accident person themselves must be There is beautification, which is an artistic beautification effect presented by the film, which is understandable. What surprised me was not how brutal and dehumanizing the abuse itself was, but how little awareness of the law and the blurring of moral boundaries in rural America in the 1950s, up to a 37-year-old leading woman, Down to the youngest 13-year-old child, there are also high school classmates mixed with the heroine, neighbors, and even some people who have witnessed the fact that this is just a crime that deserves to be condemned but has not yet risen to a criminal level. Thinking of this makes me shudder. In fact, the 37-year-old woman who initiated the crime, her motives and causes of crime, combined with her bad life experience, coupled with the mental disorder caused by long-term medication, is logical. What is terrible is that she acts as a template object for a group of minors, even a family The power center in China actually influenced a bunch of children in the moral formative period to do demonic behaviors, and they didn't know it afterwards. This is the point of this incident worthy of our reflection. Although this is a story that takes place in rural America, in the United States, which vigorously promotes human rights, the local children have been educated, and the church has also stood in the local area. Under such an infrastructure environment, such ignorant people can be nurtured. Seriously terrified.

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  • Gertrude Baniszewski: You know what it's like to be sick, Sylvia. I've been sick for so long, too. I can't... discipline my kids they was I should. I punish them I know, but... sometimes with my medicine I gets so I don't know what I'm doing.

    [begins to cry]

    Gertrude Baniszewski: And I care for them so much. Paula, the thing is... Paula's a lot like me. I had her when I was just about your age. Then Stephanie. Then all the others. Then John left... And here I am on medicine, doing whatever I can to keep my family together. I want something better for Paula... There has to be something better... And I need to protect my children...

    [cries]

    Gertrude Baniszewski: Do you understand that? You kids... you're all I've got... Thank you, Sylvia. Thank you for understanding, thank you.

  • Sylvia Likens: She sacrificed me to protect her children, and she sacrificed her children to protect herself.