Roberts Troud, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing two people, came across a bird during his years of solitary confinement. During the process of getting along with him, he gradually developed an interest in bird research and devoted himself to studying birds. The knowledge of disease has finally changed from a violent boy with only a third-grade education to a kind old man with top international bird research, and his destination is only transferred from one prison to another. The film is based on real events.
The story as a whole is about the individual's personality. If he struggles and protests under the rigid rules of the system, he will have the tough guy standards of "The Old Man and the Sea": tenacity, perseverance, perseverance, and hope. A madman who killed people at will because of discord in his words when he was young, can't help but think about the meaning of the existence of prison: whether to torture people's body and mind to make them dare not commit crimes from pain, or to wash his inside and outside so that he can recover from repentance. Desire to contribute value.
Because it is a biopic of a character, the whole film is centered on the male protagonist, and closely surrounds the characters around Troud who influence him as the radiation area, watching how a mother baby with a late-stage secondary disease grows up. A mother who has a serious love affair with her son can travel thousands of miles for her son and beg the president to pardon her son's death sentence, but she cannot accept the fact that once her son is released from prison, he will marry another woman and live with another woman. May refuse help when released from prison through a parole hearing. The mother and son broke up because of this, and after struggling with the prison system for most of his life, our mabao male protagonist finally realized that in order to have a truly independent personality and life, he must be separated from his possessive and jealous mother.
Burt Lancaster, who plays the leading actor, interprets the life of the famous ornithologist prisoner, from rebellious youth to gratitude and kindness in old age. Personally, I think that Lancaster's performance is too much for the impulsive, arrogant, arrogant impulse of the Maotou boy. The real wonderful thing starts from the moment when Lancaster realizes politeness, humility, gratitude and repentance for the first time: When he asked the jailer for something unreasonably again, the jailer who had been patient finally got furious and rebuked Troud for not being grateful at all and being selfish and arrogant and only asking for it. Troud, who has always been "only for his mother's life", began to reflect on how jerk he had been for so many years. When he arrogantly asked the jailer for something, he stood in the middle of the door railing and raised his head slightly with contempt. After the jailer slammed the head, Troud leaned sideways and carefully leaned against the door, learning to apologize for the first time.
The numb and mechanized prison life filled Trowder with anger and hatred. When he fought with the guards and even killed him, all the prisoners still listened to music and ate, not participating or stopping. A good example under their regulations, a victim of the system.
Judging from Troud's arrogance and domineering when he was young and the fact that he was reprimanded for confessing his love to his mother in middle age, his mother's failed education was the biggest cause of ruining Troud's life in prison: the first murder was because he felt that his female friends at that time were friends. He was violated, and the second murder was because he contradicted the jailer, and the jailer wanted to report him, which would prevent the mother and son who were about to visit the prison from seeing each other, so he killed him again. In my mother's eyes, the first murder was completely "for the sake of a little bitch." What about the second murder, the society should be full of compassion, and violence should not be suppressed by violence. Excessive indulgence made Troud believe that individuality and freedom are above everything else. Although this concept has subsided in the long years of growth, it still stubbornly breeds in his mind, and this is exactly what he can do by himself. The source of power to fight against the entire prison system.
He doesn't think he's at fault for breaking the windows of a speeding train just to get some fresh air. He's free, but lacks self-discipline.
At the end of "Sintler's List", Sintler cried sadly, "This car can be replaced by ten people; this medal can be replaced by two people." The reason why this scene is classic lies in Sintler's good humanity The side of the person is completely sublimated to consciousness, because he realizes all the shortcomings and mistakes of human nature and deeply regrets it. Unfortunately, what we can see in Troud in this film is a man who has been imprisoned by himself for decades protesting injustice, self-improvement, developing his interest into a career and even love, but there is no trace of atonement for intentional murder. feel. Even if he has finally learned to be humble, he has many friends, even if he is talented and won the support of bird lovers in the world, even if he has foresighted the loopholes in the prison management system, he has caused social sensations again and again, even if the loneliness and pain of life imprisonment have been exhausted. He tried his life's efforts, but he still could not get the toleration of the law.
He was a vicious murderer first, and a gifted ornithologist second; he was in a prison that punished sinners, not a home base. If it's just the director who overlooked this, then I'm sorry.
Troud's first bird was a sparrow, and when he raised it, he let it go, but the bird came back on its own. Troud realized that the comfortable life in the prison paralyzed the life's yearning for freedom and independence. This bird, like many prisoners in the prison, has been unable to adapt to the earth-shaking changes outside the prison. There is also a classic example in "The Shawshank Redemption" where a prisoner who was released from prison hanged to death because he could not adapt to his new life. When he saw that his friend Feito was only the leader of the food distribution, he immediately used his power to arbitrarily control the diet of the prisoners, and when the leader of the next level came, he immediately pretended that everyone was equal and adhered to the principle. The top-down corruption mechanism quickly made the marionette-like prisoners learn to obey and imitate, but forget about dignity and individuality. This is also an important element of Troud's attack on the backward prison management system.
Troud and the bird looked at each other through a barred window. Troud was like in the window and out of the window. He had an enterprising and positive mind that made him know the outside world well without contacting any external things; In the window and out of the window, the fear of the outside world and its own cowardice make it only want to seek the protection of authority, and dare not have individual struggle. Body and mind, whichever is imprisoned, is a life sentence.
However, when it comes to prisons, there are too many factors involved: the authority of the law, the protection of the rights of victims, the unignorable human rights of prisoners, the decision between justice and justice, the mentality and actions of individuals with rights when facing vulnerable groups. In the famous "Stanford Experiment" in "The Lucifer Effect", in a simulated prison environment, some college students played the role of guards and prisoners. Torture the prisoner, and naturally place yourself in the place of God for punishment because "the other party is guilty." However, back home, these children who took off their uniforms were still pure and innocent. This story of "how a good man becomes a devil step by step" is exactly what tells us the influence of the prison environment on people: no matter how macroscopic the upper-level policies are, the lower-level thinking is not unified, and there are defects everywhere. That's why voices calling for human rights for prisoners can always be heard. But too much of the Mother's Heart will chill the victim's heart. After all, it is much easier for ordinary people to be victims than rights defenders. Thousands of years of civilization cannot raise the spiritual height of the world's people to the point of taking the initiative not to break the law or hurting people and then repenting, so it is inevitable to punish the sinners with strict laws and punishments.
This is definitely the most classic scene in the film: after the riot in the prison, the chaos of the prison bombarded by heavily armed police is shattered, and both prisoners with guns are shot dead. The prison in the lens is tilted and crooked, as if the judicial system that originally upheld justice and fairness was destroyed by himself. Troud stood in such a purgatory with a deep sense of powerlessness and a firm mission to his own beliefs. This is not a chaotic world in which everyone is drunk and I wake up alone, it is just a secular world that requires continuous improvement and individual sobriety.
How to make sinners repent has always been the ultimate meaning of legal or religious existence. I appreciate Troud's courage to break the system and uphold his personality, but he is first and foremost a criminal who needs a sincere apology, not a revolutionary, or the fat tiger effect. Troud's typical anarchism is eye-catching. When he was young, he was too arrogant. When he was old, he learned about love and faith, but he could not speak alone. But again, I couldn't help laughing when he, as a life sentence prisoner, thought it was his human right to have an unlocked door. It is important to contribute value and knowledge to society, but if it comes from morally flawed intellectuals, or it is based on a victim who has been wronged, I think human beings can endure the progress of the later years.
Photography and structure are one of the highlights of the film. The game between the two protagonists, the prisoner Troud and the warden, can be felt from the picture without a single word:
When Troud gained public sympathy through his identity as an "international authority on bird diseases who pursued true love and lost his legitimate right to parole", he jointly signed a petition for parole, the warden who had to negotiate with Troud under pressure from public opinion (Right) With the shadow of a birdcage on his face, it looks as if he is the one in prison. However, this is indeed the case. In this game, Troud saw clearly that the spokespersons of the law and those in power would also exploit the loopholes in the law to do illegal things. They were not only imprisoned by the rules of the system, but also by the unspoken rules and regulations of the society. Imprisoned by adult depraved dealing methods.
When Troud changed the prison again and came to the Alcatraz prison under the jurisdiction of the warden, the two met on a narrow road. Troud is bottom-up, warden is top-down. This action is a good illustration of the sudden changes in the minds of two people: one is gradually sublimating in learning, and the other is self-sufficient in authority. However, the opposing identities of both enemies and friends make the two cherish each other, and have a common goal: to work hard to improve the prison environment and help prisoners start from their hearts. At this moment they are equal, but the intersection is limited to this.
The film gave the whole long shot of this little bird with a broken shell, which made people feel the hardship and pain of a life, a thought, and an effort to start, but without this pain, life will not last, ideas cannot spread, efforts In vain, the world will not progress.
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