The question raised by the film is not new: Can unjust means be used to achieve the purpose of justice?
In other words, in order to prevent more people from being harmed, can terrorists be abused?
After 9/11, the United States shared the same hatred, and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) vowed to avenge the terrorists:
In order to combat terrorists, there is no upper limit on the budget of the Counter-Terrorism Center.
Thomas Colditz, a behavioral science expert at the West Point Military Academy, said: “Social psychology shows that once they have absolute power or authority over others, ordinary people can become extremely cruel.” Prisoners suffered enough:
The U.S. Senate Intelligence Service staff member Daniel Jones, who is in charge of the prisoner abuse report, revealed to the media that the White House and the CIA deliberately denied and concealed prisoner abuse, and deleted the most important content of the report, making the report almost impossible to publish.
In 2015, Obama signed a bill prohibiting the CIA to extract confessions by torture.
At the end of the film, a Washington military order is played: "If an American soldier is so despicable and infamous that he hurts any prisoner, I order you to punish him severely, because the seriousness of this crime will bring shame and destruction to yourself and the country. "
It's Bai Zuo's model play again-
Let us stay true to our ideals, let us face reality:
Preferential treatment of captives and prisoners is of course correct in principle. If faced with Nazis, Japanese devils, terrorists, and unreasonable scum, any normal person will inevitably lose control of their emotions. Humans are not machines and cannot fully follow the rules.
On April 29, 1945, the U.S. Army liberated the Dachau Concentration Camp. The assembly line of killing factories stunned the U.S. Army. Some soldiers were scared of mental illness by the mountain of corpses:
Too many bones is a silent accusation. The US military is angry, and any interrogation is unnecessary. Lieutenant Jack Bushhead gave an order and directly set up a machine gun and fired at the SS:
The U.S. military organized German civilians to visit the "masterpiece" of the SS. It does not recognize the killing of German civilians who did not recognize the Nazi Holocaust. In the face of countless grievances and the iron facts before them, any normal person will tremble:
Doing one unrighteousness, killing one innocent and gaining the world is nothing; doing one unrighteousness can save people's lives, so what?
The "Strategic Secret Service Team", which was screened in China, set up an incredible moral dilemma, which made the audience extremely entangled:
The nuclear bomb is about to explode, and torture is not enough to allow terrorists to confess. Interrogation experts plan to torture the terrorists' two innocent children and save the common people with the blood of innocents. This is strongly opposed by female detectives.
The most ironic thing is that according to the logic of unscrupulous means for justice, the officials controlled the children of the interrogation expert and forced him to carry out the torture to the end.
Everyone knows the truth: there is no bottom line and principle, there is no standard of right and wrong, and justice. The blood of innocent people cannot push the door of justice, but the audience is still very entangled: because of the kindness of the female agent, the undetected nuclear bomb enters the countdown to detonation.
The children of the terrorists were saved at the cost of millions of innocent deaths.
A US poll in June 2009 showed that 52% of Americans approve of the use of torture against terrorists in order to destroy terrorist operations if the purpose is justified. Terrorist attacks in Europe and the United States have occurred one after another, and public opinion supporting torture against terrorists has risen sharply. According to a 2016 poll, 63% of survey respondents believed that torture of terrorists is usually reasonable or sometimes reasonable.
Good people beating bad people have become an unspoken rule supported by public opinion, even though it is "politically incorrect."
Do you support such unspoken rules?
"Ugly" (2013), which is based on human trafficking , reveals the darkness of human nature and the ugliness of society very sharply. The process of watching the movie has time and again felt the power of emerging Indian filmmakers.
Both the biological parents wanted to set a foot on the missing daughter; the relatives got the ransom and went crazy naked dancing straight to teach people whether they were still in the world:
The police are perverted, ignorant, and cruel, but they work conscientiously and achieve a strange credibility. In the face of such ugly human beings, if the police do not respond abnormally and fiercely, they will do nothing.
The film does not want to defend torture, but shows a real dilemma: the teeth are not sharp enough to condone and encourage crime, and too sharp will inevitably hurt the innocent.
In extreme situations, bad and not bad are stupidly confused.
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