—in the male-dominated world of Long Yingtai
, the chastity of women is a sensitive topic, and the punishment of debauchery is both in the East and the West. It has its own set. Ancient China had thirty days of yoke, and the Puritan West had a red "A". The time-honored stoning is also among them. In the New Testament, Christ said, "If you have no sin among you, let him stone the woman. The hypocrite Pharisees withdrew, but the stoning did not disappear. It continued to circulate coldly, reminding We carry the Pharisee genes in us.
"Soraya the Stone" tells the story of a stoning. A French journalist came to a small village in Iran by chance. An old woman told him a story about Soraya, a woman who was falsely accused of adultery. - The story of being stoned to death. The description of the stoning part makes people tremble: the woman is half-buried in the soil, and the men from a few meters away threw eggs the size of stones one after another, first the father, then the husband, the son...
This is a painful and long death process.
As a movie, "Soraya the Stoned" is not very good. The peaceful village boils like a festival of thugs because of the stoning, and there is not enough foreshadowing. Of course, there are still some scenes that can shock me. For example, after the stoning, the shady husband finally failed to win a new love. He regretted that there was no wedding. After the bloody death scene, the cultural ethics revealed by these light syllables is chilling.
At the end of the film, the French reporter walks away with a tape of the story, and the old woman murmurs that the world will know.
This abrupt ending is an out-and-out Hollywood fantasy.
In Hollywood's curse, knowing the world means the end of evil, so whether it's the gannet assassination order or the political situation, the last scene is in a peaceful newspaper office - the media is the symbol that the world knows. Even Bourne's identity, the stumbling block project ended with a telex from Agent Pamela Randy - the world knows, so it's over.
But we have 10,000 reasons to prove Hollywood wrong, that "the world knows" isn't always powerful enough, and we even worry about whether it will give the speaker enough shelter. So Pasternak was still persecuted by the Soviet authorities after he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and after 18-year-old Peter Feicha was shot and killed in front of everyone, the Berlin Wall remained a border of freedom for 27 years.
Perhaps we have to face the fact that the world knows, but nothing has changed. We can even imagine that Zanhara, the teller of Soraya's story, will bear the notoriety of betraying the village and the country.
Stones do not fly out of thin air, and eradicating evil deeply rooted in culture is not an overnight success. So today's America is still atoning for the enslavement of black people, and Hollywood probably can't understand that letting "the world know" can be misinterpreted as flattery to the West, and treason can be used to curb people's touch of conscience.
But what is a country? What is culture? To what should one's loyalty be dedicated? Is it a word, or is it self-approved justice? "Looking back to when we were kids, most of us thought that justice landed among us. Virtue is the best reward for virtue, and justice must triumph over evil. But we grew up and found that was not the case. Each of us Justice has to be fought, and it's not easy." At the end of "Kennedy," Inspector Garrison said in his stirring closing statement, imploring people, "Don't ask what this country can do for you. , ask yourself what you can do for the country!"
It turns out that the country should be the embodiment of people's values, otherwise, we and our children will all live in lies.
Everyone is eager to choose a peaceful life, Pasternak can not write "Doctor Zhivago", he can completely forgive himself in advance: this is just a novel, nothing can change. And Zanhara can also be silent, like other insiders in the village, letting the blood of the innocent flow.
But what a pale and cynical world it would be.
If the king had donkey ears, and if that was the truth, then even if the king's soldiers were all over the streets and fields, there would always be an echo from the hollow of the tree at some point revealing the truth.
Yes, to Pasternak, the "world" is not the Nobel Prize committee, and to Zanhara, the "world" is not a Hollywood second-rate director. It is a tree hole, an external projection of human conscience.
On December 8, 2010, the real-life version of Soraya, Ashtiani, an Iranian woman sentenced to stoning for adultery, was released.
After the "world" knows, changes are happening quietly.
This is a start.
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