During the summer vacation newspaper internship, a pre-editing meeting, the editor brought up a negative report from a brother city, the editor-in-chief on duty was silent for a while, and added: "There are other manuscripts, just change one." Is
there any other manuscript? no? Just write one.
Sometimes it is strange why there are so many good movies with traditional media as the themes in this eschatological era of traditional media. Nostalgia or lament? As a "underage" media person, I prefer the former.
"Focus" adopts a method similar to documentary, with a restrained, calm and neutral attitude, with traditional and classic linear narrative techniques, with the "Focus" team of "Globe" as the main body for our systematic and objective presentation The scandal or the truth about the "priest molesting young children".
So, are the guilty only the priests or only the church? It is true that these perverted priests are the direct perpetrators of crime, and the church is the shelter of these priests. But are they the only guilty people?
"Raising a child requires the support of the entire village, and destroying a child also requires a village." The church is indeed a relatively closed place with great power, but we must admit that these crimes are not buried in the tall walls of the church. Behind him, it spread among the circles of lawyers, politicians, clergy, and victims, and continued to expand over time. In the end, it became the old past that most people knew and kept silent. We will drag the children at home and nag over and over again, to keep them away from a certain house and the people in the house; we will close the door and curse God without eyes, scourge for thousands of years; we will pity the rumored tragic experience of XX . But in the light, we will still keep silent.
There is not only sin in the dark, but also another face of sin: the truth.
It is true that it is hateful for those in high positions to obliterate personal interests in the name of safeguarding the overall interests, but what is the difference between you, me, and these carnivores, who understand the truth but keep silent? They protect the so-called overall interests for their personal interests. Don't we also selectively sacrifice the personal interests of others in order to protect their personal interests?
The nature of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages is deeply rooted in our hearts, and the subconscious silence of individuals eventually becomes the unconscious forgetting and betrayal of the group. Forgetting sins, betraying conscience, and entrusting all scars and punishments to time. We think that the victims are cowardly, that the participants are shameless, and that the incumbents are in the same league. But forgot, maybe the other side treats us the same way. It's not that no one wants to stand up, but that people who stand up often find that everyone is sitting, and then he sits down himself. Only when there are more and more victims, when the scope of infringement of interests becomes larger and larger, when you become a victim yourself or only when a team called "focus" comes to you and pleads with you to tell the truth. , You will stand up and give up silence.
Although the editor-in-chief's strategy is correct, I still remember the sentence "This kind of thing may happen to anyone, it may be you, it may be me." Maybe we are just lucky, not being the so-and-so of others. .
In Germany, at first they hunted down communists, and I didn’t speak—because I’m not a communist;
then they hunted down Jews, but I didn’t speak—because I was not a Jew;
later they hunted down union members, but I didn’t speak— —Because I am not a member of the trade union;
after that they chased and killed Catholics, and I did not speak — because I was a Protestant; in the
end they rushed to me, and I looked around, no one would stand up and speak for me anymore.
PS: There is no condescending meaning, because I am also silent, and I will be silent too.
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