inexplicable suffocation

Trycia 2022-03-26 09:01:15

I heard a friend introduce this film before, saying that it might be my favorite genre. At the beginning, I was very afraid that it was a movie like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I was very afraid, because although these films had profound themes, the process was a little boring, which left me in a dilemma.
Thankfully it's not, the whole process of this film is more engaging and the plot is ups and downs, and there is not too much boring content. You have to watch the details of each part carefully or you won't know what it's implying. Seeing the attitude changes of the 12 people in the movie, I am suddenly moved, and moved by the fact that they have recovered their tolerant understanding of children from their own emotional experience and restored their sense of responsibility and morality. But I know what the director wants to do is not to move us, but to dissect something in front of us, something we don't know or even want to know. My moving is superfluous, because what we see is real human nature, not glorified feelings. That's right, only human nature can have such a mottled side - it will show the indifference that doesn't care, the hippie smiles make decisions in their own way, and the numbness that disdains thinking and doesn't care about everything; it also shows the desire for the truth, right Following the conscience and sense of responsibility... In the experience of life and society, one will see violence, prejudice, ruthlessness and selfishness, but also gain tolerance, perseverance, care and love... That's why there is just the beginning because of follow-up The mainstream, racial prejudice and secular vision made an 11:1 judgment, and only then will there be a final reversal of the 1:11 situation, and there will be a final judgment that is both ruthless and warm - acquittal. Everything comes from human nature.
However, this is not what I really want to see, we all want to see a better ending where the child can get real freedom and new life with the help of 12 of them, but no, the director cruelly refused my request. He was not wrong, but it was this ending that made me feel the pain in my heart. In the intense background music after the trial, the children kept dancing and dancing. At that time, I cried so sadly, I knew this unnecessary The tears were not out of emotion nor out of anger. Perhaps, it was just a kind of catharsis, but in the end I found that my catharsis had no effect. After the film ended, the tears dried up, but I was still very entangled in my heart. I clutched my conscience and tried to reduce this worry, but it was replaced by a more painful suffocation.
Inexplicable suffocation.
I want to know why, but I can't find a reason. When I saw some film critics say that the film showed the cruelty of war, I did not feel this strongly; I knew that it involved Russian national and social issues, but I was not impressed by this. I just know that the child bears a lot of unbearable weight in his life, but he has been expressing this heart-wrenching heart through cheerful dance. I only know that those 12 people clearly found their conscience and sense of responsibility, but in the end they did not choose the true meaning of redemption; I only know that the entire trial process obviously took less than a day, but what it reflected was the sadness and helplessness of the whole world.
Impressive are the words of the "guilty" person who finally voted. Nothing has been changed, he said. I started to suffer from this sentence. I thought that in the end the 11 people would make the choices we were expecting to bring about a little "change", but no, so my pain only deepened. What I am most afraid of is that others tell me the truth of life, and in such a naked form, in such a resolute and thorough tone. I can't stand it, I don't want to accept it. I can't accept that even if we do our best, we can't change anything, what should be, and in the end nothing will change. This is the paradox of human nature. The truth of human nature determines that the ending of the movie should be like this. The absurdity of human nature determines that we must be helpless for our own nature.
Yeah, even if it's me, what can change?
I'm just a selfish member of the crowd.
Just, if possible, can you let me breathe in this inexplicable suffocation, and then continue my life unconditionally and beautifully.
It seems that the friend was wrong. I like movies with warm tones. I compromised to accept only the good side of life and refused to tear open the vast abyss behind the beautiful clouds.

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  • Jeffry 2022-03-29 09:01:09

    Since it is a remake, there is no bright spot at all. Mi Dao is alluding to the reality of Russia, but it is not brilliant.

  • Maxie 2022-03-30 09:01:11

    Fortunately, I still have my own things, otherwise the film will be tortured for such a long time.

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  • 2-y prisyazhnyy: So, we're voting on whether the defendant is guilty. Hands up, please.