Seeing this, I am also a little confused. What should we do with these poor people who have made mistakes?
When we're strong enough to ignore their mistakes, like Carlos in the movie, if he's rich enough to ignore the loss of a car, I think he'll be even more reckless, but the reality is often that Carlos even He was so full that he couldn't eat, and his son complained a lot about him. Under such circumstances, shouldn't he be angry when he met such a poor car thief like him? Or how should he be angry?
Thinking of the time I bought a new four-month-old mobile phone half a year ago, it was also a blink of an eye. When I looked down, I found that the mobile phone was gone. It was obviously stolen by a thief in an ambush in the underground passage. After waiting for the first ten minutes of anger, helplessness, resentment, and self-blame to subside, I thought about the group of people who stole mobile phones. I really don't know how to imagine them.
is hate? It's just a mobile phone, they should also be poor people who have been reduced to the bottom of the society, and they are forced to do this. It's like the old man who stole the car in the movie. He couldn't see the appearance of a bad guy. When he met Carlos for the first time, when he was alone for a day without any money, he took out half of the bread and handed it to him. This stranger, and the next day, when the complacent Carlos drove him out to work, he still smiled kindly. Who would have thought that he could turn around and do a murderous act? The thing is that simple, before and after the wrong thing, they are all ordinary people with normal emotions and moral values. The old man immediately remitted the money from the car to his family in Mexico. Did you know that the thief in the underpass took the money from the mobile phone to buy a workbook for his son?
If we can't hate it, can we forgive them? Even if we are so great that we don't care about gain or loss, can they really appreciate our painstaking tolerance and be grateful for it and wash our hands from the bottom of our hearts? You and I both know that it's impossible, and there is no remorse, so what kind of grace is there? Whether it's stealing a car or stealing a mobile phone, at that moment, they are even great, just like Carlos and his son to steal back their car, isn't that stealing? The film is shot with sympathy for immigrants, and you, like the people in the film, rejoice at their success, but what if there is a sad story behind the old car thief that has to be told, if you raise your gun and finally don't. Will the janitor who hit the trigger be convicted? This is the way things are in this world, we always care about our own story, and ignore it more than a little bit.
Back to the question that puzzled me at the beginning. How do we blame poor people who have made mistakes? Who will help them and who will redeem us?
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