According to Chinese laws and regulations, drug traffickers, according to the different types of drugs and the number of grams sold, receive sentences ranging from three to fifteen years, ranging from criminal detention to the death penalty. In the United States, according to different state laws, the sentencing standards are also different. Although there has been a trend of legalizing marijuana in some states in recent years, after Trump visited Singapore in early 2018, he made it clear that "drug dealers are as abominable as serial killers." shall be punished by death.
If drug addicts are the victims of wrongdoing, then drug dealers are heinous perpetrators, poisoning others for huge profits. The protagonist of the movie "25 Hours" is a drug dealer who lives in a luxury house and drives a luxury car. However, the film does not criticize the crimes of drug dealers too much but tells the life of the protagonist, Mundy, 24 hours before he is imprisoned. In the 25th hour, he will walk into prison.
According to the setting of the film, "prison" means death for any prisoner who walks in. Because the prisons are full of more vicious criminals, they form gangs and fight, but the prison guards turn a deaf ear to them, let them make trouble, and even laugh at them fighting. The day before he entered hell, Mundy completed a self-redemption through a conversation with his father, a drink with his best friend, a confrontation with a drug dealer, and a reconciliation with his girlfriend.
If it were me, how would I welcome the last day of my life? I have many memories of being in the ICU. Those who really had an intersection with the god of death, after recovery, only their family and life are in their hearts. Regardless of whether they entered the ICU because of illness or suicide, after leaving the ICU, they cherish what they have now without exception. People who have seen the god of death will have a different way of living.
For Mundy, the god of death was right in front of him, and as time passed, it was approaching him step by step. In between conversations with his father, Mundy had a conversation with himself in the bathroom. Mundy insults beggars asking for money, Sikhs who drive taxis, Russians on Brighton Beach, corrupt cops, Wall Street brokers, etc. In the end, Mundy took the blame on himself. He said, "No. No. F**k you, Monty Brogan." You had it all, and you threw it away." This entire monologue is included in the song (Un)Told Prejudices.
What Mundi hated was not the pickled scorpions in his life, but the self who couldn't handle them properly in the face of pickled scorpions. As Mu Xin said, "There is only one kind of heroism in the world, which is to still love life after recognizing the truth of life." But how many people go astray under the weight of life, and then attribute all the guilt to life without ever thinking about themselves? After talking to himself in the mirror, Mundy slowly woke up.
He and his close friend Frank confided, "Before I get caught, I should take that money to you, buy stocks, buy bonds." That way, watch every penny double, and we'll both get rich together. I always think I won't do it if I earn a little more. just a little bit. I'm getting more and more greedy, and then I'll destroy myself. " He began to reflect on himself.
Prison guard He Jingming has written many true stories of death row inmates. One of the murderers, Zhou Mou, was sentenced to death for hacking to death his cheating wife and her lover. At first, Zhou did not regret it, and only thought that the death of the two was more than innocent. However, when the younger son said, in a tender tone, "When will mom come back?" I miss mom, "Zhou suddenly woke up. "( He cried and said, "I'm a sinner." I killed two families. " From a legal point of view, the offender's self-examination cannot completely offset the crimes they committed.Zhou was eventually executed, and Mundy had to face seven years in prison.But from another perspective, the self-salvation of the perpetrator is sometimes more valuable than cold legal punishment.
In the summer of 2007, Zhang was arrested for drug trafficking. After failing an appeal and trying to escape, he was sentenced to death and executed immediately. The night before the execution, Zhang said, "It's good to be alive." If I can start over again, I want to take the right path. " However, he never had a chance. In "Back in "25 Hours," in the last ten minutes of the film, Dad drives Mundy to prison. When the car started, Mundy saw through the car window all the people he had insulted, who laughed and watched him leave. At last, Mundy was reconciled with them and with himself.
At a fork in the road, my father said to Mundy, "Say a word and I'll turn left...find a nice little town...if you want to, if you really want to, I'll do it." If you go, never come back. Let's drive together... For Mundy, his father imagined a life on the run—a life that began anew in a small town in the western desert. There, Mundy would take a job at a bar that didn't ask where people came from and slowly mingle with the people in town. Then fake a birth certificate and never go back to New York. A few years later, he would write a letter to Nechuli, and they would reunite in a small town to start a new family. When Mundy was old, he would tell his children and grandchildren about his ups and downs, tell the whole story, and ask them, "Do you understand how lucky they are to be here?"
Life is so short, it's as if nothing ever happened. After his father's fantasy, he planted the star-spangled flag representing courage and freedom, and still led the car in the direction of the prison. The next day, Mundy embarks on a journey to Nirvana in a completely different mood than he did 24 hours before. The film was shot shortly after the "9.11 Incident," and there is still a great deal of fear in the hearts of the American people. Even today, they still have lingering fears, and this sense of economic and political insecurity is also reflected on the characters in the film. Of course, this does not excuse Mundy; there is no reason to justify the drug dealer. It's just that I can't help but think of the words of a debater in "Qi Hua Shuo": "The attitude towards wealth in our era is particularly sloppy. On the one hand, it makes us work hard and diligently to pursue wealth, and on the other hand, we hope that when we face the sudden arrival of wealth and the sudden loss of wealth, it doesn't matter. "
It's like advocating that money is something outside the body while making prices go up wildly; saying that the times need good work; and paying a lot of money for articles with high data. Mundy, who has tasted the sweetness of huge profits, has to go through a baptism of seven years before he can correct his attitude towards money and life.
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