After watching "The Hunt", it was very heavy. The icy incision like a scalpel touched my heart smoothly and delicately, and I felt as though I was being abused. This feeling has always held me around, but I decided to come and have a chat, what to talk about.
First I want to talk about the movie itself. There are many excellent works related to child abuse. Most of them are accountable for crimes from the perspective of criminals causing real harm to children. In these works, the victims are the poor children, and most of the criminals are adults, which is a kind of sinful harm from "big to small". The film’s perspective is different. It tells a lie from a child and the trauma caused by the lie to adult victims. This is a kind of "small to big" injury. After watching many videos on child abuse, this film brings us a different perspective. The whole film has a cold temperament, like a cold scalpel, cutting through the wound layer by layer, making people slowly die. The chilling atmosphere, gloomy tone, and the superb acting skills of starring Mickelson under this cruelty can be described as piercingly perfect. There is no doubt that this is destined to be a work that is constantly talked about.
Secondly, I want to talk about the crimes of adults in the film. The behaviors in the film that allowed this lie to expand, spread, and become perverted, all came from adults, who were self-righteous, smart, and even moved. They think they represent justice, stand on the commanding heights of morality, hold shotguns, and hunt others. Think of yourself as an ancient knight riding a horse, holding a spear, and going to assassinate the demon. Later, they don't even care about the truth of the incident. They only believe in the truth that they think, and they continue to make up for it, and constantly create some non-existent "facts", and the rumors become more and more fierce. Looking beyond the film, such incidents are often staged in our lives. Have we all played such a role, holding the guns and cannons of justice, to kill or beat others. It is not necessarily a child-related incident, it may be any incident, and we become accomplices without knowing it or even wanting to know it. This is the heavy thinking that the film brings us.
Then I want to talk about the topic of children, just like in the film: "We always think that children will not lie, but unfortunately, they often lie." Once a similar incident occurs in life (not necessarily child abuse, but maybe (Related to children), we often directly accountable adults who make mistakes, but we forget that children can lie too. This is also the thinking brought by the film. We all know that this is actually a fact, because we were also children, and for some purpose or reason, it is not uncommon for us to panic. I hate that little girl, and I even dislike it very much. Of course, it may be related to her family. The parents often quarrel and even lack care for her, otherwise she won't often play alone and get lost, and her brother is not reliable. But she is a strange and withdrawn character, and with all due respect, this child will grow up like this, sooner or later it will be a scourge. The children in the film finally made up some false claims, because they didn't realize what they were doing, and it didn't matter if they were ignorant. They said this today, and he can say something else tomorrow.
We always thought that children would not lie, but unfortunately, they often lie. And they don't even know the consequences they need to bear if they make a mistake. The evil of adults is the dark human nature, and the evil of children, this kind of pure malice that does not know the consequences from the heart, is the most terrible.
Finally, I want to talk about the male protagonist. He is an extremely cute and kind person who will accompany the children in the kindergarten to play. He is even willing to be bullied and teased by them. He is willing to bear all this, or he takes the pain to himself. He was even great. Afterwards, he forgave the little girl, forgave her parents, and forgave the friends who hurt him and his family. He is stigmatized, he bears all this alone, he stands strong, he lives to live, and only he knows how much suffering he will bear. It's such a kind and tolerant person, but the world makes him bear these heinous malice. This is the most moving part of the film. Fortunately, the film is not completely cruel to the end. There are at least some moments of dim light or relatively warmth, otherwise it will make people want to die (now it makes people want to die).
Although everything is not over, or even this will never be over, the broken rubble that has been torn down is destined to be irrecoverable, and it is even more difficult for you to build a castle on it, but you still have to continue, because this is life.
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