high school, a good friend told me that she was very distressed why the world is not black and white, why there is always gray, and how to face those gray areas. Her mother persuaded her to accept the objective facts of the world, but she felt that no matter how adults are like this. My thoughts are the same as hers, choosing to accept gray is actually choosing to compromise.
But later, when chatting again, she mentioned that there was some helplessness in her tone. I wonder if there was an unfair incident in the university, which made her heartbroken by gray.
This student has always wanted to be a clinician and is now studying for a medical degree. After watching "Piercing" by Chris Evans today, my first thought was to hope that she can still maintain her original intention and maintain the courage to question and uncompromise.
If you are in an extremely dark room with thick walls, no light and no light, you only need to drill a hole in the wall, even if it is just a small hole the size of a pinhole, and light will penetrate into the room. But if even the courage and motivation to try this has disappeared. Perhaps all ambition and rhetoric can only be wiped out in the dark.
We will be angry and abused at the injustices or terrible things that happen in the world, and there will be waves in our hearts, but then what? Where is the change in the world due to the butterfly effect?
I don't know how many people in the legal, medical and media industries will resonate with Mike's role in "Piercing". Legal workers face injustice and often suffer from inability to purify the environment, change the law and punish the wicked, even if they see the filth with their own eyes. Media practitioners may be deeply helpless to control public opinion to put pressure on the powerful to change some dark sides that should not exist.
The words that the successful defendant lawyer Price said to Mike can be explained as: I am going to be moved by you, your idea is too great, and it is too courageous to change the status quo by yourself. I used to have this kind of conscience, but The big dye vat of society has turned me bad, and even if I wake up now, there are still many people who will take my place against you for fame and fortune, even if they know that you are right in terms of justice, but you are wrong. If you don't have money or power, you can't give benefits to others.
Is it like what my classmate's mother would say to her? When you have nothing at all, is it too much to think about changing the darkness? It is better to take care of your own affairs first, it is better to survive in the gap between seeing the darkness and your conscience, and let the helplessness in life wipe out your fighting spirit. You won't come up with this idea again.
You want to fight against the powerful, but you still have a family to support. The powerful don’t even have to use their brains. For them, the way to organize you is too simple. You don't even have a material foundation. It depends on how you build the superstructure, not to mention the struggle to subvert the existing system.
That's not the case with Mike's classmate and partner Paul.
There is a lovely wife who later added a lovely child, and a small law firm to maintain. In the movie, his most scenes are not reflected in the court or in the court case, but in the face of bills and family. The helplessness is that he wants to support Mike in seeking justice, but he also deeply knows that the price of justice is sacrificing his current life. There are so many things in life that need to be stable, and only mediocrity can last for a long time.
But Mike is not.
Mike is the character they say has not changed since the second grade of junior high school. Mike can yell at Paul that you will only chase after his wife's ambulance, and I at least have the courage to face the failure after working hard for justice. His wife left, and he felt lonely and failed in his heart, but a normal life could not satisfy him. Perhaps more of his character was the sharp side of pursuit of excitement and justice, while other people of the same age had long been sharpened. .
Without an acute angle, how can you cut a light-transmitting hole in the wall, and without an acute angle, how can you maintain your courage until the final victory.
So Mike never gave up, even if he wanted to lobby the whole country by himself, to unite the individuals scattered all over the country to achieve the final victory, he still had to do it, and he had to do it even if there was a glimmer of hope.
What he faced from beginning to end was not a calculation and analysis question about the trade-off of cost and benefit, but a multiple-choice question about black or white, right or wrong, and he chose one to realize it through trials and tribulations.
This is a thought that everyone and every ordinary person will have, especially when they are being treated unfairly, they can't wait to hold two axes on the neck of those in power to force them to reform or directly go into battle to make changes. However, only those who can truly bear the pain and persist in breaking through the obstacles can be regarded as warriors in life.
Is Mike a Warrior?
The answer to this question cannot be answered because his sudden death interrupted the actions he would have taken.
I'm more inclined towards him being.
Because every time you have the idea of fighting for a longer time, the more people you can influence, and the more likely you will be able to make changes in the end. Just like his death, Paul, who had compromised his life before, got angry and found a lawyer of equal size, so that the lives of medical workers in the United States can be more guaranteed, and they can save more people without any worries.
It must be difficult to do it. You have parents and relatives who will discourage you for your own good. You have lovers and friends who are implicated because of you. Your life and order will be ruined because of this. There are very few people who can do it. So every success is praised as a warrior deed to inspire people. The world is so big and time is so long, and the momentary darkness cannot resist the final arrival of the light, and things will always get better. And the premise of getting better is that there are still people who insist and who dare to question and resist.
When chatting with my roommate, I said that every time I was immersed in thinking about what to do if something happened to me for a long time, she said that she only read it as a story, it felt like a distant thing, and she didn't think about herself. pass.
The characters set in the movie are very clever. There are victims, powerful people, Mike who is like a warrior, and Paul who is struggling for life but has no choice but to retreat. Outside the movie, there will be indignation and indifference.
This is not a story, this is real life. At the beginning of the movie, it said that it was based on real events. At the end of the movie, we paid tribute to Mike Weiss. After watching the movie, I did a little bit of Baidu and found that the filmmakers put the propaganda of the movie and real events. On a website, there are more efforts made by filmmakers to promote this story about warriors. Maybe the form of the film belongs to business, but I always believe that the content of a good film will always belong to human nature. Thank you for their hard work, as well as the hard work of many producers and actors.
Let an ordinary person like me have some insights, and let me also want this insight to last longer and spread more widely.
You can have no action, but please don't, in your heart, you have never even touched.
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