"Diluted" Humanity

Jermain 2022-09-13 21:13:43

The patient's face was covered by a white sheet, and the two were squeezed into the same bed...

On October 30, 2015, at a concert in a nightclub in Romania, a rock band roared on the stage, and a faint flames burst into the crowd. When the fire spread, people screamed and rushed to the exit, the fire The stampede caused by the panic eventually led to the death of 27 young people and 180 injuries.

Why did a sudden fire change the medical system and even the political landscape of the entire Romanian country? The documentary "Kletsev" captures all this.

From the perspectives of the sports newspaper investigative reporter, the new Minister of Health, and the survivors of the disaster, the film restores the context of the entire incident.

"Diluted" Humanity

The conflict at the beginning of the incident was that the hospital, knowingly, kept patients in a germ-free environment and used a diluted, inferior disinfectant. The disinfectant was provided by unscrupulous manufacturers through bribery, and the active ingredient content was extremely low, which could not achieve any sterilization and disinfection effect. Many patients died not from fire, but from complications of bacterial infection.

Secondly, the Romanian government has also vowed to provide the best medical care.

This fuse ignited the entire Romanian medical system, and people began to hold accountable the bribery medical management and the Romanian government that acquiesced in all this.

A doctor with a disturbed conscience revealed the cruelest reality. The backward medical system cannot cope with sudden disasters. The patient's face is covered with white sheets, and two people are squeezed into the same bed. Later, the body began to be infected, and even maggots grew ...

Low-quality disinfectants have killed hundreds of patients, but it is not only the low-quality disinfectants that are diluted, but also the public funds of the hospital and the "human nature" of the management of the medical system. The doctor who broke the news is ashamed that many Romanian doctors have stopped being "humans" for the sake of money, and colluded with the bosses in the operating room, just to send patients to the operating room and collect more money...

It is absurd that the investigative reporting of this major social news comes from a local sports daily. The film progresses through the difficult evidence collection, investigation, and confrontation of reporters, and records everything from the perspective of a bystander ruthlessly.

When the truth was slowly restored, people shouted the reporter's name on the street and paid tribute to him. This scene was really touching. Journalists with conscience and social responsibility are thickeners. They stir up the seemingly clear appearance and make this "diluted" world no longer so dull.

Raise the "veil of ignorance"

After the incident, the public's anger towards the Romanian government came from the early indifference and the later cover-up. The Romanian government abused the public's trust by falsely reporting medical conditions while claiming that low-quality disinfectants were effective. (The relevant personnel of the hospital involved were authorized to "check" the disinfectant.)

"When the media compromises with policymakers, policymakers abuse the trust of citizens," the investigative reporter said angrily on TV, awakening the blind and challenging the incompetent. It is a struggle between corruption and innovation, and between greed and justice.

In John Rawls' "Theory of Justice", there is an important theory: "the veil of ignorance", which means that people want to treat a matter fairly. After individuals walk to the curtain, they are randomly assigned to various identities in the society, which ensures the absolute fairness of the discussion.

The texture of the film is hard, but its core is extremely soft, and it avoids the most sensational and easy to cut wounds-showing what happened to the survivors and interviewing the families of the victims. And like a sharp knife, it slammed into the innermost part, cutting straight to the aorta.

The record of "Kletsev" pulled down the last "fig leaf" of the Romanian government. It tried to raise a "veil of ignorance" rationally and ruthlessly, so as to provide the public with a freer, fairer and more transparent discussion environment.

In the investigation of the whole incident, the truth is always ready to come out, but it is difficult to touch. Disinfectant suppliers have died mysteriously; bribed medical administrators have nothing to say; the short-lived Minister of Health seems to have a bright light, but it is not dead. Maybe the cruel truth is always separated by a thin layer of feathers, everything seems to be about to be revealed, but it is covered up...

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  • Catalin Tolontan: When the press bows down to the authorities, the authorities will mistreat the citizens. This has always happened, worldwide, and it has happened to us.