1. Story overview
Romeo Ardia is a doctor living in Transylvania, a small town in Romania, and his wife Magda is a library administrator. The ideal of changing the status quo of the country returned to the motherland together, but the reality gave them a blow.
Complete disappointment with the country makes Romeo desperate for his daughter Eli to leave here for college.
Eliza is a veritable good student. She usually has excellent grades. As long as she can get an average score of 9 or more in the graduation examination, she can get a scholarship from the Department of Psychology of Cambridge University. However, Eliza was attacked the day before the examination. Assault and sexual assault led to unsatisfactory exams. In order to help his daughter who failed the exam to go abroad for further study, Romeo, who worked in the police station and was a friend of Vlad's suggestion, did not hesitate to take risks, violated the law, colluded with the deputy mayor to cheat, and helped Iraq Leza revises the grades, and as compensation Romeo will give the deputy mayor with cirrhosis "special treatment" in the hospital.
But unfortunately, the vice mayor Ping made too many enemies to be reported, and the transaction between Romeo and the vice mayor was also discovered by the prosecutor. Because the vice mayor was hospitalized and could not be arraigned, the prosecutor wanted Romeo to issue a doctor's certificate, so that he could The deputy mayor is arraigned, and in return the prosecutor promises that his daughter's grades will not be revealed, but Romeo rejects the proposal and is ultimately punished for it.
In the graduation exam, Eliza rejected her father's suggestion of cheating. She used her own method to prolong the exam time. At the graduation ceremony, Eliza confessed to Romeo that she did not want to go abroad. This time Romeo did not refute, he decided to choose Right to Eliza herself.
As the protagonist of the story, his father Romeo is undoubtedly a typical representative of mid-life crisis. When he was young, he returned to China with the ideal of changing the fate of the country, but he was no match for the terrible reality. He gradually adapted to the country's "law of the jungle". They are separated from each other, and maintain an underground lover relationship with her daughter's English private education. Her mother is old and suffers from heart disease and may leave at any time. As a doctor, he maintains medical ethics and never uses his power for personal gain to collect red envelopes. As a father, he always educates his daughter to be honest, but when it comes to her daughter's graduation exam, he violates the principle and violates the law.
2. Social phenomenon
Director Sian Mungi passed an exam to bring Romania's status quo and the dark side of society to the screen. In the contemporary age where values are distorted, integrity and honesty are swallowed up bit by bit. Applying the iconic ills in the works to China seems to be equally applicable. In the works, we can see more or less a microcosm of today's Chinese society.
The fuse of the story is started by an accidental attack of an attempted rape, but a closer look at the film will reveal that women are attacked as "everyday", Romeo's lover Sandra was attacked and injured on the bridge a year ago. Ended up in the hospital (the accident that prompted Romeo and Sandra to meet), the locksmith says his cousin was killed years ago.
In the surveillance video when Eliza was killed, it can be seen that there were multiple witnesses at the scene of the incident, but no one stepped forward to stop them. When the police visited them, everyone seemed to agree , categorically denied.
Looking at the social news at home and abroad in recent years, the incidents of women going out alone and murdering one after another have not made people reflect on what is the reason why human nature is gradually distorted despite the continuous development of society.
Under the director's lens, Romania is a country that needs relationships everywhere. Police officer Vlad will use his connections to get his son a job in the police station; the deputy mayor helps the principal's wife solve the job problem; Sandra wants her son to be in the police station The local primary school, but was told that it was full before the registration period; Romeo asked the deputy mayor for help to tamper with his daughter's grades... The director seemed to tell the audience that if you don't care, it will be difficult in this society, The corruption of the system has become a chronic disease of the country, infiltrating every corner.
This work is like a mirror of Romania's real society, revealing the grief of people in the throes of society; it is also like a cry of despair, which is an individual's search in the loss of self-identity. (This paragraph is deleted for reference infringement)
3. The truth
"Who is the murderer? Why did the murderer do this?" is the biggest question in the whole work. Regarding the murderer's speculation, many film critics have more careful analysis. "Exterminating harm in the name", some say that it is the crush of his lover Sandra, but no matter who the murderer is, the occurrence of a series of attacks must be inseparable from Romeo, and it is undoubtedly the punishment for his wrongdoing. The film did not reveal the mystery to us. Maybe the director thinks it doesn’t matter who the real murderer is. What we need to face up to is the country itself, which is full of loopholes. How to fight, change, and redeem her is what we should really think about. of.
Like the conversation between Sandra's son and Romeo in the park, it's not right for people to jump in line and throw stones at them when they do the wrong thing, but what's the right way to do it? That's something the movie can't answer, and the director can't answer it, as director Christian Mongy said: "I don't know. Because I don't know what would happen if I left. However, 15 years ago I was shooting West. (Occident, 2002), when I would suggest staying, fighting, and changing, now I have a hard time looking an 18-year-old boy in the eyes and saying to him, "Stay, whatever the cost. "While many things have changed, there are deep 'somethings' that show no sign of changing."
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