The gods are not always there!
Therefore, there is a mother.
On Mother’s Day, I should have watched some relaxed and warm films. However, the wandering away from home and the reserved Chinese children have never expressed their feelings with their parents.
Therefore, there is no such an anniversary as Mother's Day or Father's Day in China. Although everyone is more and more accepting some international ways of expressing emotions, for parents, they are still used to sending blessings in the circle of friends or messages.
So, this "A Mother's Revenge" is somewhat uncomfortable. However, it does not prevent it from being discussed and remembered by many people on this special day.
"A Mother's Revenge" is adapted from the Delhi black bus case that shocked the world. In December 2012, a 23-year-old medical intern from Delhi boarded the criminal bus. During the period, he was gang-raped and beaten by five people, while the driver had been standing by. It is outrageous that several bullies inserted sticks into the girl's lower body, causing damage to multiple organs, and even the intestines were pulled out of the body.
The film was actually released in India in July 2017, and the case of that year was not sentenced by the Supreme Court of India until 2018. Among them, 4 people were sentenced to death, 1 committed suicide (bus driver), and 1 was released (at the time of the crime). minor).
Unlike in the movie, the victimized girl in real life was rescued in the hospital for 13 days and finally died with a grudge. And this appalling case eventually sent a group of thugs to prison and paid the price of their lives.
However, it took 6 years to wait for this result. In the past six years, there have been countless young girls who were brutally attacked and killed by thugs.
Sin has not disappeared because of a trial. As the heroine Dai Weiqi said in the movie, there will be many such things happening. She told the police, however, you can't do anything.
Indeed, in Indian society, there are loopholes or loose attitudes towards rape crimes, whether it is society or the law.
In the film, because she refused to pursue her classmates while attending a farm party, the 18-year-old girl Alia was detained by her classmates and gang-raped and abused by 4 people. She was dying and was thrown into the stinking ditch.
When Alia’s stepmother, Da Weiqi, came to the police station for help, the attitude of the police was that this kind of thing was too normal. It might also be that the girl went out to play with the boy, but she just didn’t want her to know that it was Valentine’s Day after all. .
They asked David to go home and wait for news. However, in those few hours, Alia suffered physical and psychological devastation.
It was originally a well-documented case, plus Aliya's confession, but after more than 30 days of debate in the court, four people were finally found not guilty because of insufficient evidence.
Among them, the biggest reason was that Alia had a high alcohol content that day, and it was probably because she was unconscious, so her confession was not credible.
Therefore, in such a case, it is possible to completely ignore the facts that occurred objectively, and to subjectively seek evidence to rely on the victim.
In the 2012 black bus case in India, the driver said: For rape, women are more responsible than men. Because a decent girl, she won't hang out after 9 o'clock.
And one of the rape criminals said that she should not resist and should quietly accept being raped.
Women's status in India is low to dust.
In the movie, because he didn't accept his courtship during Valentine's Day, the male classmate felt a great loss of face. Together with his cousin and another friend with a criminal record, he kidnapped Alia. During the kidnapping process, a security guard at the scene did not rescue the girl, but helped the three commit crimes together.
In their eyes, those who come out on Valentine's Day just accept courtship by default. And to accept courtship, it must be sex with a man. Resistance means not knowing how to respect men.
Moreover, the law is not that strict. Even if you have committed a crime, you can justify yourself.
There is a scene in the film where the girl's father was convicted of not guilty by the court for dissatisfaction with 4 criminals, and one of the criminals was beaten in the court. The presiding judge saw this scene and ordered his arrest on the grounds of contempt of the court.
It’s ridiculous that the police officer who took over the gang rape of a girl before, after getting the girl’s confession, personally arrested the four criminals, but at this moment, in turn arrested the victim’s father.
As the girl’s stepmother, Dai Weiqi told the police angrily that the rapist was eventually released without charge, and because he punched the rapist, he would be arrested.
This society is so ridiculous, you can't do anything.
In this regard, the police officer is also well aware of his helplessness, just like the school where Dai Weiqi worked, and the male student who was finally acquitted returned to school, as if the previous case did not happen.
The principal’s answer was that he had no reason to refuse him to go to school. The court ruled him not guilty, and he had no choice. If children are forcibly prevented from going to school, parents will sue the school.
this is the truth.
The victim turned out to be the one who had to bear all the painful consequences, and the perpetrator could return to life in a stately manner.
Even if the police knew about the crimes of this group of perpetrators, there was nothing the police could do to bring them to justice without evidence. Even if the principal sympathizes with the victimized girl, he also knows the crime of violent students, he can't resist it.
Coupled with the natural discrimination against girls in society, it is believed that all injuries suffered by women are self-inflicted. Rape cases like this will continue to be banned repeatedly, and they will not touch people's hearts from a deep level.
Just like when the police arrested one of the criminals, they were crowded with spectators along the way, and the criminal's mother had been trying to stop the police from doing so and shouting: Why did he take him away? He didn't commit a crime.
Of course, this film does not have a deep analysis of the roots of human nature and social systems. The behavior and psychology of several criminals are just passing by, sometimes even a little funny.
Unlike "The Distance Between Us and Evil", there are lawyers' calls and helpless rants, doctors who know well and evade their sharp edges, and public opinion confuses the situation and even personal choices of good and evil.
"A Mother's Revenge", like the title, is more about starting from the role of a mother to express the love of a mother for her children.
Therefore, in fact, the storyline of this film may not be this gang rape, but any unexpected incident. In this way, it seems that the audience's anger can be less.
The heroine Daweiqi is the stepmother of the victim girl Alia. The setting for them in this film is like a normal stepmother and daughter, and they are naturally at odds.
But in comparison, the 18-year-old Alia is more like making things unreasonable. She seems to be reluctant to part with her mother. She is worried about her father forgetting his mother's marriage to a new wife.
For this stepmother, I have no liking. Even though she has a gentle and considerate personality, is a teacher of the people, and is also enthusiastic about public welfare, as long as she speaks, she has no appetite.
After the disaster, the Davis and his wife were thrown cold water by the law and reality, and they could not deal with these bullies through normal channels. And the daughter's originally wounded heart, because the criminal was finally released, she was still unable to get out of this knot and trap herself in the house.
Da Weiqi, desperate, finally started to take risks. He tried to drive and kill the violent male classmate, but gave up because of an accident. At this time, she remembered the detective she met when she first went to the police station to report to the police. He also had a daughter who understood the pain in Daweiqi's heart, so he agreed to help Daweiqi collect the data of four individuals in preparation for her revenge.
Although she is not her biological mother, Dai Weiqi's performance in the film goes beyond the responsibilities of a mother. This is due to the actress's acting skills.
There are several scenes in the film that reflect the cowardice of the heroine: 1. The heroine went to the police station for help. The first time she met a detective, she seemed at a loss because she didn't understand, and kept her distance and vigilance from the other side. 2. When the heroine tried to hit the male student, she was nervous and terrified, and she was short of breath. She didn't even pay attention to the big truck and caused a car accident. 3. When the last criminal came to the door, her husband's life or death was uncertain. In order to relieve her daughter Alia from the danger, she was frightened but took the initiative to delay the other party's actions.
The female is weak, but the mother is strong.
Several scenes of David Qi showed the fears that a woman should have. She is not a born killer, but for her daughter, she can become strong and brave.
As for her revenge against the other three people, there are actually many loopholes. With her actions, she will leave a lot of evidence, but she has escaped legal tracking time and time again.
In the end, a pair of glasses turned out to betray her.
As mentioned above, this film does not explore the human nature deeply enough, and the mother's revenge is only a catharsis by relying on the emotional compensation of the daughter. As a stepmother, Da Weiqi has no basis in the relationship with her daughter and always faces collapse. In fact, this kind of collapse was caused by my daughter, and I have been trying to be a good mother.
So, in the end, when the daughter knew that she had helped solve the other mobs, the emotions between them instantly reconciled.
It was this scene, because Alia finally called her mother. She was emotionally broken and shot all the bullets at the last criminal.
This scene is easily reminiscent of the scene in "The Seven Deadly Sins" where Pete holds a gun at a calm criminal. Pete's anger, entanglement, regret and other emotions broke out, and by the way, the plot that was to be highlighted in the scene was expressed.
However, those few shots of Daweiqi just discarded the core of the film.
Although the few bullets shot at the criminals are what every audience thought of, this is not a game, nor is it a court sentence. We face the obscenity on the camera, which makes this film seem meaningless for the whole rape case.
In particular, the police also handed guns around and encouraged Davis to shoot and kill the criminals. In addition to instigating crimes or making the audience cool, this plot is purely tasteless.
Sometimes, the effect of a film is far greater than that of Yang!
The more helpless, the more people feel that the nerves are being beaten by others, and the more it can arouse the audience's thinking.
If the scene of punishing criminals in public was just a shot in the background, or just an open scene where the mother and daughter embracing and crying, and the police hadn’t arrived yet, perhaps, we would have a great impact on the social significance of the rape scene in this film. There is a deeper impression, rather than the reunion of mother and daughter in the end.
However, in general, the background touched by this film is worthy of our in-depth study. I'm not talking about mother-daughter emotions, but society's perspective and thinking on women.
In this regard, it seems that many countries do better than India, but it does not mean that it is completely eliminated.
In the film, mother Dai Weiqi had an exchange with the detective.
The detective said, believe in the gods. Daweiqi said, but the gods are not always there. The detective said, that's why there is a mother.
What if the god and mother are not there? The gangster said, call your mother, this kind of provocation, who can save them.
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