Suspicion: Two Outcomes of Weak Struggle

Carey 2022-01-25 08:07:39

In the real life culture, "forbearance" does not seem to have a derogatory meaning, nor is it disgraceful. On the contrary, people who can "bear" are often considered to be "open-minded", "open-minded", and feel "blessed are those who can tolerate". As a result, people who can "bear" also feel that their attitude towards life is superior to others, so they feel good.

Just think about what happened to Kristen Collins, what happened to a "tolerant" person in China?

After getting a copycat son, you have to know how to "forbear". What's the point of making a fuss? Counterfeit goods are not so easy to find. People should know how to be grateful and not ask too much. If the police officers are more experienced, they will ask the relevant departments to give some subsidy every month, and find individuals to do ideological work.

What about Christine? Psychologically, taking the fake son as a real son and living a good life is far more "blessed" than going to a mental hospital, right? If I can do a little more, I will make a pennant to the relevant departments, so that everyone can know the hard work and achievements of the police. If this thought is realized, how happy and harmonious the result will be!

But not Christine. In a society where "the police fight against criminals only to reduce competition", she embarrassed the police because of a son, and she was not satisfied even after getting the copycat version. Such discordant people should be sent to a mental hospital.

After you have finished speaking the opposite, it is time to speak the truth, otherwise you will be wronged if you are scolded.

As an underdog, Christine's struggles have propelled American society forward. The immediate effect was to suppress the corruption and tyranny of the police at that time, and the long-term effect was to amend the laws at that time, for example, "citizens shall not be sent to mental hospitals for subjectively determined reasons."

The progress of society is seldom through the self-improvement of the strong, but more by the unyielding struggle of the weak.

However, it must be known that the result of the struggle of the weak is usually not "good will win over evil", but "sacrifice". If an unfair thing happened to you, would you have enough courage, backbone, and blood to fight at the risk of being sent to a mental hospital? Or adopt a higher life attitude of "forbearance" in exchange for that pitiful and false happiness?

Finally, I have to talk about three very typical characters in this movie.

Person 1: Gustav (identity: priest)
Without his active and enthusiastic support for Christine, Christine could not have achieved the final victory.

Person 2: Unknown lawyer (identity: lawyer)
Gustav volunteered to fight for Christine when he couldn't afford the best lawyer. What is his name, the movie doesn't seem to say.

Character 3: Rice (identity: police officer)
It was he who did not take the Winewell Farm case lightly, nor let it go under the pressure of his superiors, and finally found the murderer of the child.

The identities of these three people have obvious meanings. Without these three people performing their own duties and doing their part for the disadvantaged, the result of Christine's struggle can only be sacrifice.

Of course, there are other typical characters in the movie, such as the attending doctor and the nurses in the mental hospital, and the lawyer who can't afford to show his face. . .

So, maybe we don't have the blood and backbone to stand up and fight. . . But, if anyone had, which of the above "typical people" would you choose to be?

Maybe we can't help anything, but at least we can hold a sign in solidarity like the people in the movie.

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Extended Reading

Changeling quotes

  • Christine Collins: Why would they do this?

    Rev. Gustav Briegleb: To avoid admitting they made a mistake when they brought back the wrong boy. Of course, anyone reading the newspaper with half a brain would see through it instantly. Sadly, that would exclude about half the readership of the Times. Mrs. Collins, I have made it my mission in life to bring to light all the things the LAPD wish none of us ever knew about. A department ruled by violence, abuse, murder, corruption and intimidation. When Chief Davis took over the force two years ago, he said...

    Chief James E. Davis: We will hold court against gunmen in the streets of Los Angeles. I want them brought in dead, not alive, and I will reprimand any officer who shows the least mercy to a criminal.

    Rev. Gustav Briegleb: He picked fifty of the most violent cops on the force, gave them machine guns and permission to shoot anyone who got in their way. He called them the Gun Squad. No lawyers, no trials, no questions, no suspensions, no investigations, just piles of bodies. Bodies in the morgues, bodies in the hospitals, bodies by the side of the road, and not because the LAPD wanted to wipe out crime. No. The LAPD wanted to wipe out the competition. Mayor Cryer and half the force are on the take: gambling, prostitution, bootlegging, you name it. Because once you give people the freedom to do whatever they want, as the Lord found in the Garden of Eden, they will do exactly that. This police department does not tolerate dissent or contradiction or even embarrassment. And you are in a position to embarrass them and they do not like it. They will do anything in their power to discredit you. I've seen it happen too many times to start going blind now. That's why I wanted to meet you, to let you know what you're getting yourself into and to help you fight it, if you choose to.

    Christine Collins: Reverend, I appreciate everything that you're doing and everything that you said, but I'm not on a mission. I just want my son home.

  • Dr. John Montgomery: He had two cavities that needed filling. He put up a fight, but I took care of it.

    Christine Collins: And?

    Dr. John Montgomery: Your son's upper front teeth were separated by a small tissue, a diastema. It made them sit about an eighth of an inch apart. The boy in that room has no such gap.

    Christine Collins: Can that change with age? Because that's what they're going to say.

    Dr. John Montgomery: In some cases, yes, it's possible. But the tissue between Walter's teeth prevents that from happening. You see, they can never come together without an operation to sever the tissue, and I can tell you right now that he has never had such an operation.

    Christine Collins: Would you be willing to put that officially in writing?

    Dr. John Montgomery: Pardon my language, but hell yes.