It was very exciting when I watched it, and after watching it, I was full of thoughts. Is human nature evil? Is trust between people reliable? In the same predicament, will you save yourself or lend a helping hand?
I think this film reflects the dark side of some people's hearts. If it was me, I wouldn't even let the black man who was being hunted in, I didn't want to get myself into trouble... I felt like the Mr. Sandin inside, a little cold and selfish. What is the best practice? I think it's useless to make peace with them. Probably the safest and most ethical option is to join the black man and shoot them?
Everyone has evil in their hearts, but once the way to release evil becomes legal and is not bound by morality and law, the rules and regulations that originally bound our morality and laws will instantly become meaningless. Many people think that the wife "Our Lady" and Charlie are "disgusting" and "harming the family", maybe they are right, everyone has their own understanding. But they have no choice.
If you were Charlie (that young son), what would you choose?
You choose to ignore it, and the moral code will whip you: fellow human beings, you are so cold-blooded, you will be condemned. But morality itself is meaningless, what are you afraid of?
If you choose to help that black man, you risk losing your own life and that of your family. Your family shouldn't pay for your actions with their lives. Morality has lost its meaning, you helped him, what did you get?
It's tough. The two options contradict each other. The director should want us to think about what is really good in a difficult situation. In fact, every time Sandin shot someone, I thought to myself, "Well done!" Am I being rather narrow-minded haha. But they all killed people, their sins were equal, and there was no distinction between good and evil. It's a contradiction in my heart.
In the film, people after the clean-up are calmly talking about what happened last night, the lives lost, and the corpses everywhere "making this country safer", as if it had nothing to do with them. After the incident, the funeral industry must have made a profit. Human life has no economic value. Nobody cares about the poor at the bottom of society. Sadly, some of the scenes in the movie even play out in our real world.
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