But the principle principle is so hateful. Radmann's insistence on principles bordering on cleanliness nearly overwhelmed Radmann. As the investigation progressed, Radmann almost collapsed after learning that his biological father was also a Nazi party member; he even angrily said to his girlfriend that Germans only deserve to wear black mourning clothes, pointing out his girlfriend's father's contribution in the unjust war, offending and losing his girlfriend .
"People are stupid and ugly" (people are stupid and ugly. There is a sentence after the original line, please love such people). This is the protagonist lawyer's insight into the evil in human nature in the Japanese legal drama 'legal high'. To a certain extent I agree. The social conditions, the biological makeup of man, allow most people to live with ugliness and actually live with it. The Milgram experiment in the 1960s showed that ordinary people are so inclined to obey and even commit murder in a coercive environment. Research by psychologist Dan Gilbert has shown that the prefrontal cortex part of the human brain can create "synthetic happiness" even if misfortune has occurred. Wartime murderers escape moral condemnation by obeying orders. After the war, people can rely on the emotional immunity provided by the prefrontal cortex, accept reality peacefully, and rebuild their homes as if the ugliness never happened.
Just as the Americans in the archive center in the film commented, you were all Nazis during the war, and in 45 years everyone will be anti-Nazis; in two days, the little green men on Mars will come, and you will all become little green men. This is a need for security, and it's not just for Germans.
Radmann is not a smart, security-minded little green man. This is the source of his pain. His view of justice clashes with the ugliness of man. Even though the Americans have said pragmatically that Hitler is history and that the current enemy is the Russians, Radmann still remains true to his original aspiration and insists on what he calls justice.
However, idealized justice may only satisfy Radmann's own philosophy and values. In fact, this is unreasonable. But when such ideals and principles are incompatible with ugly human nature and limited by objective conditions (eg evidence gathering, overcoming arrest), Radmann and his justice run into a wall.
But what the film conveys is not a purely pragmatic signal that justice, principles are useless, and reality is king. After suffering and even giving up for a time, Radmann found a pragmatic way to realize his justice between idealized justice and unconditional compromise and giving up. Even for various reasons, prosecutors cannot put all those who deserve to be brought to court on trial. A large number of meticulous collection of evidence and rigorous judicial procedures are enough to make the crimes of Auschwitz open to the world and let human beings reflect. Justice emerges with a pragmatic guise, to an effect that Radmann had not anticipated.
This is pragmatic justice, justice reborn after conflict with reality and human nature.
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