The truth is often lost in tears and tears

Geoffrey 2022-11-14 05:22:12

I watched "The Forge" before and I was filled with indignation. Watching "Hunting" today made me tremble, because I knew that if I were in that small town, although I would not be able to do it, I would still be very disgusted with this man, all kinds of "unwelcome" and unfriendly.

When something like that happens, everyone will believe the girl's words (don't say from the perspective of God that you won't, please put yourself in the perspective of other people in the movie), think that the girl has been violated, and the man is a pervert and must be punished. But he was released because of lack of evidence. It's unreasonable! As a ethical person, we must sneer.

No one thought that the child would lie. (Would you believe that the children around you lied about such big things?) The more serious problem is that after the child explains the lie, the adults still feel that-I also feel that-the child is stimulated and emotional Unstable.

So the truth was obscured by our anger.

What we think about is only how to punish such a bad person, not whether this bad person really did that bad thing.

Think of the movie "The Life of David Gore".

Borrowing the chapter name of a chapter in Chai Jing's "Seeing", I hope that when facing a crime, the first thing to pay attention to is the truth, not personal emotions. In this regard, be rational, not emotional.

Whether or not the other party seems to be the real murderer, the first thing to do is to find evidence. Crimes that seem to be taken for granted (such as the sexual assault in "The Hunt") also have to show evidence. Until the evidence is found, everyone is innocent, at most a suspect, not a criminal.

Therefore, it is a good thing that a lawyer defends Lee's rape case. The scariest thing in this world is that in a lawsuit, only one party has a lawyer, and the other party does not have a lawyer. ——All the right to speak is directly concluded without discussion. That is very terrifying authoritarianism. No one can guarantee that dictatorship equals 100% justice. So we need rational (abandoning personal moral emotions) debate and game, just to avoid the truth from being lost in tears. ——What if the other party is innocent?

I think of "Twelve Angry Men" again.

View more about The Hunt reviews

Extended Reading

The Hunt quotes

  • [subtitled version]

    Lucas: What are you saying? Have you got something to tell me?

    Agnes: Stop it, Lucas.

    Lucas: You want to tell me something?

    Theo: Relax, Lucas.

    Lucas: The whole town is listening. Tell me! What do you want to say?

    Agnes: Stop it, you fucking psychopath!

    Lucas: I want a word with Theo. Look into my eyes. Look me in the eyes. What do you see? Do you see anything? Nothing. There's nothing. There's nothing. You leave me alone now. You leave me alone now, Theo. Then I'll go. Thank you.

  • Marcus: Bunch of bastards! Bunch of fucking bastards!