After going through some things, I understand that questioning life is a very beneficial thing to life, questioning my past, questioning what I have accepted, and questioning my future, only then can I gain something, and then I am more determined to myself live on.
Watching "Murder on the New Orient Express" in the afternoon while chatting with a few people, this is a thankless job. I have read some paragraphs back and forth many times, and some conversations have to think back and forth in the context of the chat records, but instead they make me think of some things. . This is the best detective movie I've seen so far. It's just right to my current appetite. The whole movie starts with the lynching of a woman who is cheating on her pregnancy, and the case is solved. In the murder of people, there is no joy in the wicked being severely punished, and there is no comfort in the liberation of the good.
If Holmes is a technical series, Poirot leans more towards the human side. So the film managed to lead me to this long-standing question of what is good and evil, and what is good and bad. I have gone through an iterative process from the establishment of a firm view of good and evil that I got in cartoons and textbooks, to the broken values when I first learned the facts, and now I am trying my best to sort out my own values. It is true that many people think this is a boring and unsolved problem, but I always have a small desire to be a good person since I was a child.
At the end of the movie, before the police came, Poirot was forced to start revealing the truth. Except for the director, everyone in the carriage was a murderer. The twelve murderers were all related to a brutal kidnapping and murder case five years ago. Five years ago, the current victim kidnapped the family's 5-year-old daughter and killed her immediately, after which he managed to extort huge sums of money. After the mother learned the truth, it was rumored that she died of miscarriage, the father committed suicide because he could not accept the reality, and the housemaid was innocently involved as an accomplice and committed suicide in prison. Only the murderer bought off the chief judge at the time and was not punished, but the chief judge was dismissed for violations. This creates a typical ending, where justice is denied and the wicked go unpunished. Five years later, 12 people involved (exactly the size of a US court jury) conspired to bring justice to this seamless murder, but they tragically encountered two accidents, the detective Poirot and a snowstorm.
When Poirot finished analyzing the truth with tears in his eyes, he couldn't hold back his emotions any longer, and yelled at the whole car, "You people! Wouldn't it be a return to the Middle Ages if you dealt with it like a street savages, you're both adjudicating and being an executioner. The rule of law must be above all else, and even if it's not fair, it should be reinstated to make it enduring. Once legal beliefs collapse, civilized society will have no place to live.”
He was angry, he was angry at the death of a heinous criminal, he was angry at the lynching of bad people by 12 good people who were justly abandoned. This kind of justice has no sense of happiness or the essence of civilization, but it reminds me of the line in another movie "Nausicaa" that I watched today: "They are blinded by anger." The investigation was repressed and filled with tears, but at this moment, a tragedy in the past has turned into an even bigger tragedy. These 12 people have finally become the same people as the murderer, and Poirot can no longer control his emotions. . In the face of everyone's excuses and the persuasion of the director of the train company, he just ordered "no, no" to lock the door, and finally on the snow outside the car, the director deliberately guided Poirot to let these people go, Then the tragedy unfolds again.
Another movie without good and bad guys. I like this movie for the same reason I like "The Social Network." There are no good or bad guys in the traditional sense. Everyone ultimately has a reason, self-selected to become who they do not want to be, although some of the reasons seem to be painful and helpless, or noble and pure.
At the end of the day I still haven't answered my own question or figured out how to fulfill my childhood dream of being a good person, but the good thing is that I have some clues about good and bad to get closer to the answer in the future. Besides, is our world so helpless? Is it unavoidable for man to become what he does not want to be? It may seem like that now, but I'm a bit of a different person by nature, and I want to work hard and see what I can live out.
2012.1.23
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