The beginning of the film is a subtitle: It has been said that children are curel. One sentence reveals a truth that everyone knows but no one wants to admit.
Children are cruel, cruel out of ignorance. This is reflected most completely in Jason.
In the film, jason slapped a little girl who was powerless with her hands, because she was ugly and felt that as long as she touched her, she would be infected. And he held a grudge against teacher Simon because he was punished, and told the school's rumor that Simon was a homo as a fact (but he didn't even know what a homo was, just thinking that Simon would be expelled ), you know what a serious accusation it was, enough to ruin a person's dignity and career in those days.
When Jason looked into his mother's eyes and said that Simon was homosexual, there was no dodging in his eyes, no guilt, because she didn't think there was anything wrong with what he did, and he only wanted Simon to be fired for simple and cruel reasons.
I still remember that in the first and second grades of elementary school, silkworm breeding was very popular in the class. Basically, half of the children had a small box of silkworm babies in their drawers. A fat man sitting next to me also had a box, but he didn't use it to raise it, he used it to burn it. During that time, a group of boys would come around every day around the time of the second get out of class break. He would use a branch or mulberry leaf to pick up a silkworm, and use the lighter he brought from home to start burning it from the tail, watching the silkworm. Twisted the body, fell to the ground and tossed, the white body turned black, and then a group of people studied curiously, or threw it on a girl's table, watching the female classmates were so frightened that their faces turned pale, it was very enjoyable haha laugh. A child of that age would never want to say how sublime the word life is, that it's a worm, that's all. But I can still recall the burnt smell and the twisted struggle of the silkworm.
【About the uniqueness of the individual】
There has never been a standard for what kind of person you should be. We are all different, and we all have the right to choose what kind of person we are. Everyone understands this truth. But human society is exclusive, once you make a different choice or don’t want to follow the crowd, your rights will be deprived, and then everyone can come to criticize you, point fingers at you, or even interfere in your life.
Just like stanley, just because he is different, everyone avoids him like a plague; like simon, he is reluctant to stand up and deny the rumor that he is gay, because he thinks it has nothing to do with the teacher's profession, and finally he can only leave.
But fortunately, they have a firm belief in their hearts. Simon moved to another place to continue teaching and educating people, and Stanley devoted his life to the cause of poverty alleviation.
When people around you are questioning you, don't rush to doubt yourself. Keeping your own uniqueness may be a more lasting and correct choice.
[About Peace]
There is a famous equation in the play: human dignity + compassion = PEACE
human dignity + compassion = peaceful
war, which started thousands of years ago. The history of human development is a history of wars in which you win or lose, and all peace is only a temporary truce. Even in modern society, the smoke of war has never disappeared from the earth, and true peace is like a far-fetched dream.
The opposite of peace is not war, but desire. Once the desire for money, power, and conquest surges up and drowns out the pity in the heart, war is imminent, whether it is between countries or between people.
But this equation offers a possibility of peace. If everyone respects each other's human dignity, and everyone finds a compassion that keeps the corners of their hearts, will peace last forever? Saying so, but doing it is more difficult than ascending to the sky.
In the film, Stanley reads a poem describing an idealized world: The world i dream where black and white whatever race you be will share the bounties of the earth, and every man is free. Where whertchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl. Attends the needs is all mankind of such a world, i dream.
I hope so too.
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