When you really feel pain, you will know what "pain" is

Noelia 2022-01-09 08:02:47

I didn't read the original novel, but first watched Matsutaka's movie "Confession". Therefore, from her first confession to everyone's own confession, I was always in a state of high awe, and I did not consciously take a few deep breaths in the process, until the end of the play, my spirit was still tight. It's hard to describe how sharp the movie is? But it vaguely felt that it cut through the confusion of the world at the bottom of people's hearts, cutting all the dark secrets along the bottom of human nature, layer by layer. After watching the movie, the stamina is very strong, and I feel an uneasy feeling of anxiety throughout the afternoon. I feel that the whole world is expanding. What I see is no longer just the inexplicable cruel darkness in the movie, but the end of the darkness is surrounded by a greater light. world. I am fortunate that I still have feelings and the ability to explore the source of tragedy. What’s amazing is that at this moment, I thought of the whole story in a calm mood. I suddenly understood why the female junior high school teacher (Matsuko) who suffered from the drama can face it with such a calm attitude, because when a person has endured unimaginable changes At time, all emotions will instantly return to the depths of my heart, leaving clear eyes to see the selfishness and cruelty behind the complex human nature at a glance. In the film, everyone’s confession unanimously revealed the darkest and most vulnerable aspect of the bottom of human nature: the female teacher who sanctioned students in her own way (she could not accept that the student who brutally killed her four-year-old daughter was unharmed under the protection of the law) A genius boy who never knows how to respect life (he does not get maternal love, so he tramples on the lives of others at will); inferiority boy B who is as timid as a mouse but commits big mistakes (he wants to prove that he is not a timid and useless boy in the eyes of others ); a mother who blindly dotes on her son, teenager B (the son committed a heinous crime, and she still insists that his son was only taken by bad classmates); a girl who is excellent in character and academic but is incomparably dark (she sees the weakness behind a strong person, but no longer Can't find the meaning of life). Each of them looks no different from ordinary people, but their inner confession is so amazing. It's like everyone has an unknown darkness. The darkness includes all large and small wounds: childhood trauma, the shadow of the growth process. , And the mark of being cruelly treated. When the darkness is uncovered in the sun, the weakness in the heart will be covered, and it is surprisingly found that behind the cruelty are wounded souls one after another. Unable to accept the fact that oneself is not loved, and thus deprives others of love, hurts others' love. However, injury does not become an excuse for hurting others. A person who must prove his existence by hurting others just highlights his selfishness and vulnerability. [Wrong is wrong, there is no excuse] I think of the first scene in the movie that made me shudder: Matsuko told the students in a calm tone about the process of her daughter being killed. The students only paused for a while and continued to play . It was as simple as dying an ant, and it did not affect them in any way. That kind of indifferent attitude that has nothing to do with them, it is not difficult to understand why there are endless campus bullying incidents, as long as they are not bullying themselves, they have no feeling. If you don't feel it, how can you feel the same; if you don't feel it, sometimes it's unnecessary to even look on the sidelines. That kind of collective coldness began to radiate from the inside out, pretending to be strong and weak, bullying people who are weaker than themselves; those who are bullied to the end prove their existence in a twisted way. Thus, a big mistake was made. It is ridiculous that under the protection of the law, even if minors are found guilty, they can easily return to society and get the chance to be reborn anytime, anywhere. Therefore, they have no sense of the existence of life, they are more confident, hurting others, taking pleasure in other people's pain, it has become a common thing. Based on this logic, it is really nothing to kill a person. The accomplices who caused such indifference and deviation among young people are not others, but the whole society and family. The partiality of the law, the indulgence of the family, and the connivance of the school, so that they don’t have to pay for their crimes, and they don’t even realize that they are wrong, and they are accustomed to pushing their mistakes on others: Juvenile A abuses cats and dogs and hurts others , Just to get the attention of his favorite mother; Boy B killed the little girl, and everyone said he was useless. Boy B's mother not only does not blame him, but blames others for the unfair treatment of his son. They are all subconsciously "victims" who do not get the attention of others, feel no love, and then become perpetrators, but feel hurt in their hearts. This does not mean that they can hurt others at will and take away the important things in their hearts. Wrong is wrong, there is no excuse; wrong, you should pay the price for it. All persecution of others based on the self-starting point should not be easily forgiven. This is not a question of how many years old, but a question of mentality. [Does the education of love really start with "love"? 】 Another part that impressed me is: the film deeply satirizes the so-called "education of love". In the movie, Matsuko is replaced by a passionate young male teacher, who practices love education. He wanted to be friends with every student, naively thinking that as long as he became friends with students, he would understand their inner world. However, he, who knew nothing, became the heart of every student. idiot. I remember that in the Japanese drama "Queen's Classroom", the devil female teacher coldly satirized that the female teacher who blindly pleased the students was not for the sake of the students, but for her own good. At that time, I felt that these words really hit the nail on the head. Think about it carefully, no teacher does not like to be welcomed by students, but if you want to be welcomed by students, you must put down your body and appropriately cater to the preferences of students. But, is this really good for students? At a stage where their mental development is not yet mature, but they have already begun to rebel inside, if they make mistakes just to persuade them, will there be any vigilance? I think "teacher and friend" is the ideal state of teacher-student relationship. It is not impossible, but it will only happen to mature students. Chinese education attaches great importance to the ethics between teachers and students, emphasizing "respect teachers and values". It is not unreasonable to think about it now. If a teacher cannot gain the respect of students, his words will not have any effect, and how can it have a good impact on students . Just like the passionate male teacher in the movie, he is full of enthusiasm for teaching, and he thinks he is very awkward with the students, but in fact he can't impress any students at all. Not only can he not enter the inner world of the student, but he is also like a person living in another world. If the education of love cannot be based on true understanding, it will not play any role at all. It is just a slogan of idealism. I think of the church school I attended when I was in junior high school. At that time, the school banned corporal punishment. The teacher could only persuade the students for bad exams or mistakes. While all the students were happy and liberated, our tutor was the only teacher who did not follow the rules. I still remember his reason: "There is no love education in my class. If you make a mistake, you should fight. Just talk. , You don’t hurt or itchy at all. Don't feel pain, you won't remember wrong. Later, the teacher really did what he said. They made mistakes and beat them even if they failed the exam. The class we taught was like the pupils in the Queen’s classroom. Thinking of the pain of the cane falling on the body, I immediately became sober. Finally, our class ranks first in all aspects of the year. The teacher did not implement the education of love, but it made me remember clearly: if you want to succeed, you must work hard, and if you do something wrong, you have to pay a price. No one can easily be forgiven. This is fair. Later, I became a teacher myself. At the beginning, I didn’t know how to be a teacher. I didn’t consciously make excuses for the students, but I was also frustrated to find that the students were getting worse and worse: the more you respect him, the more defiant he is, completely inappropriate. One thing. At that moment, I suddenly remembered the words of my junior high school instructor: If you don't feel pain, you won't remember wrong. So I Readjust the pace of teaching, start to set the classroom rules, and strictly implement them: ten points will be deducted for one week of late assignments, and zero points will be taken the second time. The effect was immediate, and the jobs that were always incomplete in the past were collected every other week. I want to take the premise of being fair to all students as the principle of being a teacher. Even if I can’t cover everything, at least try to be unbiased, don’t make excuses for students, and don’t let students treat the teacher’s good as an indifferent reason. Forgiving too easily will only make them feel insensitive to the mistakes. They really only get a zero score once, and they will remember to hand in their homework on time next time. Anything is underestimated, and it is a trivial matter to hand in homework on time, but only when the trivial matters are taken seriously, will the big things such as "respect for others" and "cherish life" be regarded as unnecessary and trivial. In the movie, there is a sharp contrast between the love education of the young male teacher and the way of education that Matsushita pays for making mistakes. Perhaps every teacher believed in human nature and the feasibility of love education. However, the facts have proved that people are far more complicated and harder to understand than we thought. The focus is not on the way of education, but on the purpose of education. If you want to teach a bright-minded, kind-hearted child, you must make him remember his mistakes when he makes them, instead of self-hypnotic optimism, believing that he will change next time. Instead of believing that tomorrow is sunny, it is better to plan ahead. You tell him that life is precious a hundred times and that it will be painful to lose important things. He will not feel anything, but you only need to let him experience the feeling of losing important things once, and he will understand. What is "pain", and always remember the feeling of pain. Cruel, but it is human nature! If neither the education nor the national laws can protect the important people in our hearts, using violence to control violence and to treat others in the same way seems to be the only way. Let him remember: all the pain is caused by himself, if it is not for evil thoughts, there will be no bitter results. [True light must come from the depths of darkness] Gradually, we no longer only see the surface of the bright world, but are truly in the dark, seeing the true appearance of good and evil in a world of light and shadow. We don't have to force ourselves to be good, if evil is also an essential part (including the shadow of acquired injury). Some people say that the female teacher in the movie shouldn't treat her students like this. I think this statement is too strong. I only see her as a teacher, but ignore that she is also an ordinary mother who has lost her beloved daughter. Besides, the teacher is also a human being. It would be unfair to define her with a high moral standard. Every time I see the "Abolition Dead Alliance" holding up the banner of forgiveness by the victims’ families, I find it ridiculous. Why should the offender be light? Yi can be reborn, and the victim will have to die innocently, and the family will have to bear the pain of a lifetime. The media always tends to mislead the audience in the direction that the perpetrator may be excusable, but ignores that all excuses cannot be used as an excuse to harm others. May I ask, if your daughter was killed today, can you easily say forgive or let go? Our whole society has unknowingly turned into a structure of accomplices, and there are always people who have nothing to do with themselves trying to insert a corner in the tragedy of others with a compassionate attitude. In my opinion, excessive tolerance to the perpetrator is like a second injury to the victim. If you do something wrong, you can be forgiven as long as you admit your mistake on the surface. What axioms and justice are there in this world? No one can bear the pain of losing a loved one. Therefore, I fully understand the behavior of the female teacher afterwards: She armed herself with calmness, without the slightest emotion, step by step to seek justice for her daughter. An encounter that is too sad also indicates the impermanence of life, although impermanence is often caused by man. In the end, when I saw Matsutaka’s cold to extreme expression melted into the candy sent by the little boy, at that moment, the child’s innocence and the sweetness of the candy seemed to be a warm current, flowing through my tight heart at the same time, I finally Seeing a beam of light in this sad story, the lukewarm temperature, is enough to shed warm tears, so it's good. No one wants the world to be so bad, but if badness has become the norm in the world, we don't have to deceive ourselves and say: I only see the sun, where is the gloom? The world without the sun is indeed very cold, but we can think from another angle: the real light must come from the shadows. When we can open our eyes fearlessly in the dark, perhaps, the long-lost sunlight is not far away. Originally published in: In the end, when I saw Matsutaka’s cold to extreme expression melted into the candy sent by the little boy, at that moment, the child’s innocence and the sweetness of the candy seemed to be a warm current, flowing through my tight heart at the same time, I finally Seeing a beam of light in this sad story, the lukewarm temperature, is enough to shed warm tears, so it's good. No one wants the world to be so bad, but if badness has become the norm in the world, we don't have to deceive ourselves and say: I only see the sun, where is the gloom? The world without the sun is indeed very cold, but we can think from another angle: the real light must come from the shadows. When we can open our eyes fearlessly in the dark, perhaps, the long-lost sunlight is not far away. Originally published in: In the end, when I saw Matsutaka’s cold to extreme expression melted into the candy sent by the little boy, at that moment, the child’s innocence and the sweetness of the candy seemed to be a warm current, flowing through my tight heart at the same time, I finally Seeing a beam of light in this sad story, the lukewarm temperature, is enough to shed warm tears, so it's good. No one wants the world to be so bad, but if badness has become the norm in the world, we don't have to deceive ourselves and say: I only see the sun, where is the gloom? The world without the sun is indeed very cold, but we can think from another angle: the real light must come from the shadows. When we can open our eyes fearlessly in the dark, perhaps, the long-lost sunlight is not far away. Originally published in:http://blog.sina.com.cn/aiyung

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  • Willow 2022-03-28 09:01:07

    The spelling is a little thin and broken, but the excellent cutting and splicing make up for the cold and thinness. There are a few really good shots (especially the time-reversal series at the end), and the three kids and one adult are all well done. The vortex of violence, death and evil is very Japanese. The only thing that makes it feel like a drama is that Japan is a little too obsessed with "creating an evil contrast through school uniforms and juveniles", and the impact is reduced.

  • Abdullah 2022-03-28 09:01:07

    After reading Ryuko Matsuko's "confession", I was greatly shocked! She acted very well, her calm expression showed layer after layer of psychological transitions, and she deeply expressed the sadness of an ordinary mother that no one can understand. In this world, no matter who does something wrong, they must pay the price. There are extenuating circumstances and cannot be used as an excuse to hurt others. Wrong is wrong. I once again believe that human nature is inherently evil. Only when people lose important things can they truly understand what "pain" is.

Confessions quotes

  • [repeated line]

    Yuko Moriguchi: Something important, on the inside, died.

  • [last lines]

    Yuko Moriguchi: Just kidding.