Countless "Chicken Soup for the Soul" would have paled in the face of Eric's (or rather, Boy A's) experience. It is true that we know that among the countless chicken soup for the soul, there were people who suffered from hemiplegia due to various accidents, but Eric did not; however, a few of these people, through their own continuous efforts, gradually stood up, ran, and even eventually. Become an Olympic champion, and Eric isn't. But the problem is that these chicken soup for the soul protagonists have the love of others, and Eric does not. All chicken soup for the soul is so old-fashioned that there is always an ingredient called "love" in it. The protagonists of Chicken Soup for the Soul are paralyzed, but they are still the sun in the eyes of their parents and the name that their lovers call at night. But Eric has nothing but a so-called "bad friend" -- or, the only one who cares about him; and a paper cutter -- a paper cutter so amazing that it can sever an artery and die A girl's life can save another girl's life by cutting her seat belt. Eric is nothing. Oh no, he's "something". He is a burden to his parents, a burden to teachers, even if he is paralyzed like the writers in chicken soup for the soul? However, it is still a burden, but it will be a lot of trouble. And such a burden would dare to kill another cute girl with a bright future? What if you don't send it to jail? Senior lawyers who have never tried to be ignored by their parents, looked down on by teachers, or beaten by older children will not understand the sadness behind Eric's knife - just as most of us are equally difficult to understand. It's not just the "innocent" girl who humiliates and looks down on Eric and Phillip, it's the entire society they live in. It wasn't the girl that Eric stabbed, but his parents and society as a whole. So his parents were outraged, they happily let the police take their "children", and then the whole society was outraged, who unanimously condemned Phillip and Eric's "bestiality", but were guilty of what they had done to them They turned a blind eye to the bestiality of the next; they took him to court and put him under "justice", not realizing that they had long since abandoned it; they even numbered their Erics as they numbered livestock - Boy A, let He became a symbol of pure evil.
However, Phillip and Eric never had a chance. They never had the opportunity to do good.
The director told us that people have a kind-hearted core, and if the environment allows, people will choose to do good - as Jack chose later, he chose to use his knife to cut the seat belt instead of the artery to save a life . So, are many wicked people who have been scorned by us, are their evil actions really their own choice? Did they fail to do good simply because they never had the opportunity to do good? Those of us who advertise our good deeds, have you ever thought that we are just lucky to have the freedom to choose whether to do good deeds or not? Why is Jack a different person from Eric, a different existence? Not because they have different options, but because they have different opportunities. So we find that at the end of the movie, Eric's words to Terry: "I'm not the person I used to be." It's just a self-deception. At the moment when his identity was exposed, whether he wanted to or not, he had already changed back to the person in the past. They were persecuting him to do evil. He has no choice. So we found that, also at the end of the movie, what Jack said to Dave was the truth: "I've always been that Jack."
But I never had the chance to choose.
View more about Boy A reviews
