"I heard a robin calling in the distance. I think I haven't heard it for thousands of years. Although its music will be thousands of years away, I will never forget it,-it It's still as sweet and powerful, like the singing of the past."
-Thoreau: "Walden Lake"
In Vinci's eyes, there is no act more pathetic than killing a robin, because we know it better. The bird is a kind of beneficial bird, it has beautiful feathers and a moving voice. As an upright lawyer, there is no act more pathetic than convicting Tom, because Tom is a good man, a disadvantaged black man, and he always helps others.
Tom is a young black man, and often helps a white woman at the request of her, but the latter framed him for rape. The racial contradictions in the United States in the 1960s intensified. In the peaceful town in the film, the discrimination of whites against blacks is not hidden. As Tom's defense lawyer, Finch discovered the truth, but he was threatened by some radical townspeople. Whether at home with a pair of lovely children or when facing a judge and jury in court, Finch resisted the pressure and defended Tom with his conscience and justice. But the jury was blinded by the black and white opposition, and they found Tom guilty. One night, a black robin broke free from the cage in horror and flew to freedom. A white bullet killed him.
Tom is Finch's robin, and Finch's son and daughter also have their childhood robin, and that is their neighbor-a simple neighbor with many horror legends. They went to neighbors to "expedition" time and time again, because there was the "evil in form" that they first felt in their pure hearts. But they have never been harmed by their neighbors. On the contrary, they found all kinds of simple and small objects in the tree hole in front of the neighbor's house, or found that the pants hung on the wire when they ran away in a hurry have been folded neatly and placed aside...Finally When they were attacked by racial haters, their neighbors secretly saved their lives-in the eyes of the children, he changed from a sinful night owl to a kind robin, and he got a child Our love.
The children who have witnessed their father’s impassioned defense of the kind in court cannot imagine how important a person’s skin color will be in the judgment. In fact, they are no better than adults like us when faced with group problems such as race disputes. People are naive-they are judging with unpolluted human nature, and it is difficult to reflect the truth in the obscure mirror in our hearts.
In each of our lives, we will hear the wonderful singing of robin bird countless times, but many times we did not listen and praise like Thoreau, but raised the evil shotgun under the temptation of Mi Feist. ——At this time, the more accurate marksmanship, the greater the crime. You and I are murderers, and every prejudice will kill a robin. Among the irrational people, the robin's beautiful singing will cause death; and in a society that respects kindness, the robin's touching singing voice will be sincerely praised. As a person, it is sad not to sing like a robin, and as a person, it is even more sad to raise a gun and aim at the robin in the backyard of the soul.
In "One Hundred Years of Solitude", Buendia asked every household to raise birds that call robin and other birds in cages when building a village. The mobster did not know why this was, only he understood that the robin's call could call strangers. . In this land, whether we are a vulgar temporary dwelling or a poetic dwelling, we have been away from our hometown for too long and too long—Holderlin said that we are all strangers on the earth—when can we follow The robin's call, regardless of race or nationality, casts away the devil in the heart, and gathers in a realm of goodness without prejudice, evil, and harm.
Pike, who plays Vinci, said that I don't need to act deliberately, because this is the voice in my heart. In 2003, 87-year-old Parker passed away. Countless people miss him and his many classic roles, but the most admirable and embarrassing are two of them: one is him as an actor-the film "Killing One" The justice lawyer and single father Vinci in "Robin", the other is him as a non-actor-a "giant in life", on and off the screen, "his life is to live for the truth".
Now, he is a beautiful robin, singing in the hearts of everyone who misses him. Maybe it is too harsh to ask everyone to be perfect like Parker, but every time we aim the muzzle at the robin, it may be enough if we can stop and listen to its beautiful singing for a moment.
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