The case that shocked the world finally made it to the screen
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July 22nd, 2011 at 3:26 pm.
Oslo, the capital of Norway.
The government office building where Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg (Jens Stoltenberg) is located suddenly exploded.
The place was a mess.
No one knew if it was an accident or a bomb, but casualty figures came out quickly:
8 people were killed and 10 were seriously injured.
This is just the beginning.
45 minutes later, the first shots were fired on the island of Utøya , 40 kilometers away from Oslo .
There are over 500 students camping here.
A 32-year-old man suddenly shot at the crowd.
90 minutes later, the speedboat full of special police arrived at the shore, and they couldn't believe their eyes:
On Utre Island, 69 people were shot dead.
The killer also admitted to building a car bomb downstairs in the government.
In 135 minutes, 77 people were killed and hundreds were injured. The news shocked the world.
On August 22, 2012, the court sentenced the murderer to the harshest punishment in Norway - 21 years in prison.
The moment he heard the verdict, the man laughed.
Many people can't understand.
He was diagnosed with no mental illness, so why was he only sentenced to 21 years?
How could one man massacre 77 people?
Why did he kill these people?
Why did he keep laughing after admitting the crime?
Finally, seven years after the Uter Island incident, director Paul Greengrass asked the victim's family to agree to make the film.
The entire incident was recovered.
You know, the director is Paul Greengrass, who has filmed "The Bourne 3" (13 Oscar nominations, 6 awards) and "Captain Phillips" (21 Oscar nominations).
The English name Paul Greengrass, because greengrass literally means green grass, Paul is called "green grass" .
Seeing his name, many would list it as a "must-see" like the Inspector .
Green Grass is one of the few realist directors in Hollywood .
"Bloody Sunday" was adapted from the parade tragedy in the history of Northern Ireland, "Flight 93" was adapted from 9.11, and "Captain Phillips" was based on the Somali pirate incident...
And he is strong.
Handheld photography and quick editing are his forte.
Especially in the "Bourne Bourne" series, each shot in the fighting scene is less than 0.5 seconds on average, and the "fast, accurate, and ruthless" of the top agent Jason Bourne is vividly presented.
"July 22" did not disappoint. The 143-minute film did not feel any tediousness, but was completed in one go.
The film is calm and restrained, with precise control without losing depth. It is like a documentary but far more exciting than a documentary.
1. What happened?
"July 22" presents the "Utre Island Incident" in two lines from the perspective of God.
One is the whole process of the murderer Anders Behring Breivik from crime to arrest to trial.
One is the post-event change of the victim, Vilijar Hanssen.
The story begins on July 21, when Breivik is alone on a farm with explosives.
In fact, he has been preparing for this "action" for 8 years , including nearly two months of material procurement, production and physical training.
Hundreds of young people who participated in the Labour Party Youth Summer Camp landed on the island, where they exchanged, studied and played together.
Camp leaders said: "We feel this is the world's happiest and safest place. "
On July 22, Breivik posted his 1,500-page "European Declaration of Independence" on the Internet before driving to Oslo.
The text reads: One day our country will be occupied by immigrants... Today many people will call us "terrorists" , but a hundred years from now we will be called "heroes" .
At 3:20, he was wearing a police uniform, parked his car under the government building, and activated the bomb by remote control.
No one in Norway believed that this would be a long-planned attack.
Until a security guard spotted a "suspicious man" on surveillance and took down the license plate number.
The information has been reported and the Prime Minister is safe.
Police, traffic police, firefighters, and ambulances arrived at the scene one after another and quickly launched rescue operations.
The first reporter to arrive at the scene said: The police ordered people to stay away from public places, and he could clearly see anxiety and panic written on his face, and the police panicked. This is not a good sign...
More than 40 minutes later, Breivik came to the port opposite Ute.
Students on Utre Island learned of the bombing and called to ask if friends and relatives were safe.
Breivik pretended to be a police officer sent to keep the island safe, and was received by the campers.
"He was very calm and had a rifle and a pistol. We didn't think much of it, we just wondered why the police used iPods? " recalled the survivor.
Once on the island, Breivik asked the students to gather together.
Without warning, he suddenly fired and many fell to the ground.
The hand-held shot, which Green Grass is good at, works to its best advantage, with no soundtrack, just people shouting and dull gunshots.
The director took less than 10 minutes to restore the most horrific shooting in Norwegian history.
Under his lens, the panic of the students, the ruthlessness of the murderer, and the fragility of life can be seen at a glance.
For the murderer in the camera, many people can't understand, how can he kill so many strange young people so calmly?
The killing lasted more than 90 minutes and the students had nowhere to hide.
Some were hiding on the edge of the cliff, while others were lying on the ground with tears in their eyes and praying to escape.
"I suddenly heard the sound of a helicopter, but I think it was with the murderer..."
More than 90 minutes later, the special forces landed, and Breivik quietly surrendered on the ground.
Residents on the opposite side of the island saw the police's speedboat: "They (the police) thought there was more than one murderer, so they filled the speedboat, and halfway through the speedboat, the speedboat broke down, and the locals drove the boat to help them land."
In 90 minutes, 69 people were killed.
As night fell, the island of Ute, covered with corpses, was so quiet that it was depressing.
"It seemed that death cast a net that day," the survivor said.
The film has a precise rendition of events, including Breivik shouting to the crowd: " I want to kill you all ."
And his lawyer recalled that Breivik was not only polite, but also incredibly calm. "When he was first caught, he said he had a wound on his finger that needed to be treated."
2. Why?
Another line is the protagonist Olivia Hansen (Vilijar Hanssen), born in 1993.
He gives us another perspective on events.
Via was shot five times by Breivik, with bullets hitting him in the head, left shoulder, left hand and thigh.
As a result, he was blind in his right eye and had three fingers amputated. His younger brother managed to escape.
When Via woke up, the news of the Uter Island incident was overwhelming.
The truth is extremely simple, this is not a terrorist attack at all, it is all committed by the murderer.
The murderer is an extreme right-winger who opposes racial immigration and Muslims.
In 2011, a quarter of Norway's population was immigrant.
The reason why he went to Ute to massacre is because the young people on the island support the government, and they will make everyone in the world a family in the future.
But the killer's behavior and words in court shocked Via and everyone.
The murderer sensibly admitted that he had killed so many people, but denied guilt, calling his actions "self-defense".
He defended himself without haste and without remorse, even smiling in court several times.
He read out a document in court vehemently indicting European governments for their policies on diversity and encouraging immigration.
He performed the Nazi salute numerous times .
Emphasizing that "immigration will destroy Europe" , Breivik says there are countless others who share his thoughts.
The police, lawyers, and judges who have contacted him have described him very consistently: born in a middle-class family, well-educated, friendly and polite, extremely calm, and very aware of what he has done and will do.
For the first time, a psychiatrist identified him as "paranoid schizophrenic" .
Such brutality, so calm, this cannot be something a normal person can do.
In reality he did say, "If I could, I would do it again."
Soon, however, the second group of experts rejected this conclusion: Breivik was very rational and normal.
Breivik also said that he was not mentally abnormal.
Among the survivors is Breivik's old classmate: "It can't be him, we went to school together, and he won an award." The psychiatrist said: He has no symptoms of mental illness, and he has clear views and Faith, he's just ideologically very strong.
Lawyers did find supporters for him, but few were willing to defend him.
During the trial, he was unanimously composed, except for one occasion when the lawyer mentioned the Knights Templar in tears . The Knights Templar Ordre du Temple, known as the "Poor Knights of the Temple of Christ and Solomon", vowed to retake Jerusalem, which was occupied by Muslims.
Being sane means he faces Norway's worst sentence, but Norway is extremely human rights-conscious and doesn't have the death penalty.
The heaviest punishment is 21 years in prison (which can be extended if it is found to be still harmful to society).
In the film, Via once said: I want to beat him hard and beat him into meat sauce.
In 2012, Judge Thomas Indrebo was removed from office for saying online that Breivik should be executed .
Breivik was locked up in Ira Prison, in solitary confinement.
He has a three-room suite, games, remote learning, and a treadmill for exercise.
During his imprisonment, only his mother came to visit.
In 2013, his mother passed away.
His parents divorced when he was very young, and his father had little contact with him. After learning of his son's crimes he said: "Breivik should kill himself.
3. Who won?
"July 22" presents this incredible event in human history with an extremely calm lens.
But it also focuses on some of the victims, giving people reflection:
The devil walks in the world, who wins this "battle"?
The lives of many survivors have undergone dramatic changes, with relatives and friends passing away, and some permanently disabled.
All of them can no longer return to their original lives.
And Breivik is still learning to play games in a "seven-star" prison, why can't he be executed directly?
Are we the loser from this point?
The film reveals the meaning of the whole event through the change of Via.
Via finally overcomes her fear and chooses to move on with her life.
He said: "We wanted to separate ourselves from Breivik, thinking he was a lunatic, thinking he was mentally ill, but we were wrong, he was a normal human being just like us.
This allows us to know ourselves more clearly, and it also makes me more determined. I choose to live a good life, and we have to be different from him.
This made the detective think of Nolan's The Dark Knight.
The Joker did all the evil, but Batman didn't kill him.
Batman's butler Alfred said: If you kill the Joker, we become like him.
The bad of some people is pure hope to see human nature fall, morality collapse, and the world is in chaos.
For this kind of person, the worst punishment is not to kill him, but to let him see that we are living better than before.
On the third day after the incident on Hut, many Norwegians took to the streets of Oslo spontaneously.
People gather quietly, and the team is getting bigger and bigger...
Each of them held a white or red rose to express their condolences and thoughts for the deceased.
The parade is Norway's largest since World War II and is known as the "Rose Rally" .
Among them, there are Norwegians, black people, and refugees from Iraq and other places...
That night, the Norwegian Prime Minister said "Evil can kill a man, but never conquer a nation" .
According to statistics, more than 150,000 people spontaneously participated in the rally , and the total population of Norway was about 4.95 million that year.
With a population of about 600,000 living in Oslo, the marchers were a quarter of the city's population.
On March 15, 2016, Breivik, who was in prison, sued the Norwegian government, saying the solitary confinement was a "human rights violation" and demanded that the PS2 game console be upgraded to the PS3.
An interview with Ole Martin Juul Slyngstadli, a young man who has experienced the incident on Tait Island, said:
"He also demanded such human rights, and of course I'm angry that he killed my friend and nearly killed me...but we have principles, we have laws, we have to abide by them, and I don't want him to feel a shred of victory. The biggest win for us is that Utre Island is still open and a new batch of kids will go camping next month."
On March 1, 2017, the court found that Breivik's human rights had not been violated.
On June 8, the Norwegian Supreme Court said it would no longer accept the human rights case.
On June 9, Breivik announced that it would be renamed Fjotolf Hansen.
On June 21, 2018, Fjotolf Hansen appealed to the European Court of Human Rights, which was dismissed by the court.
"This is the final judgment," the European Court of Human Rights said .
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