When I was a child, I read a newspaper that told a little story: a family of three went to the supermarket. After the shopping cart was no longer needed, the mother and child threw it on the spot, but the father told the child to push it back to the pick-up place. Mother said, everyone does this, and if you put it back, it won't change anything. But the father returned the shopping cart with the child and said, "Sometimes we do a lot of things not to change the world, but to not be changed by the world."
It's a simple and even a little rough story, but the father said But this sentence of his has been remembered by me since then, and was used as a shield many times when I was questioned. This "story" is not very convincing, and there is a hint of chicken soup, but this bowl of soup is cold, which makes me more and more confirm the pessimism in my heart: if idealism is dead, then all we can do is to hold on to the end The bottom line is not changed.
I thought of this story because the phrase "father" is also mentioned at the end of the movie. When the director made this film, it was probably just to "not be changed", but what he didn't expect was that "The Furnace Law" would be born because of this in the future.
I believe that many people have spent a lot of courage after watching this movie and suffered internal injuries. As a netizen mentioned, this movie is very good, but I don't want to recommend it to others for fear of breaking my heart. In fact, I haven't touched this movie for a similar reason. The subject of sexual assault is too heavy for me, and I worry that my peaceful life will be disturbed, and I worry that the sky, which is already full of smog, will become darker because of it.
A leaf obstructs the eyes, but Mount Tai is not seen.
Such absurd things are what I've been doing until I hit this movie tonight.
Heavy tones, restrained narration, meticulous shots, there are always good people who pursue justice, and good people do not encounter obstacles everywhere, all the good news is thrown into the melting pot, this story makes people frown. And the male lead never looks like a typical dissident. In the first half of the movie, I even questioned: Is he a little cowardly, not idealistic enough, not heroic enough?
In fact, too much expectation of heroism and happy ending is a kind of resistance to the truth and self-comfort of brokenness. A vigorous social case is always more difficult than we imagine in the details, and it is impossible to get justice only with a passion. So I have no reason to expect Mr. Jiang to be a self-devotee who doesn't care about anything from the beginning, and there is no reason to expect Mr. Jiang to change the outcome of the trial. He was just a kind person who happened to encounter such a thing and made the right choice.
Such a choice is difficult. In the hustle and bustle of work, I know the importance of money and work to a person, and I know that it may be economic pressure that destroys many people. Therefore, I understood the weight on the shoulders of the hesitant Teacher Jiang. Although I didn't think he was a hero until the end, it has become a great honor to guard the bottom line of human nature when all the good are silent and all the evils are rampant.
After the film aired, South Korea pushed forward with legislation on sexual assault of young girls. Some say they have movies that change countries, we have countries that change movies. Here, I don't want to say that art must refer to politics, be used as a cannon to change the world, and talk about social problems so as to solve social problems - this is not the responsibility of art, art is responsible for the beautiful part of life, even if the beauty seems a little bit cruel. But artists must have warmth, and art must have warmth. This temperature is not easily changed by the cold world, and the side effect of this temperature may be to change the world.
The film is not my ideal type in terms of art style, but the content is enough to transcend the form. Halfway through the movie, the first scene in the courtroom, I thought of "The Defender", which was not as aggressive as the defender, but the undercurrents were approaching everywhere, and the furnace set up made me feel like sitting on pins and needles, and I felt uncomfortable.
When Officer Xu was pulled to appear in court, I remembered an old case where the lawyer was blocked from the door, and an unwarranted judgment was quietly executed in the courtroom. This is a story that belongs to China, and I want to tell this story, but now I'm worried about whether it can be published online.
Similar news and old news have been passed to me, but I have rarely talked about these things in the past two years, because every talk will end with a sigh, and at the end we will ask: "Is the world going to be OK". Another reason to be reluctant to talk is when people ask me what can I do? I was speechless, I didn't do anything, I was busy surviving.
The melting pot opened the leaves in front of me, just like the ending that I escaped from a few years ago, I don't listen, don't ask, don't watch, some things are still happening, and what a few people in this world have suffered will ultimately be shared by the majority.
I'm not a moralist, and a lot of things are nothing but invisible. When I can't do anything, I'm still willing to talk about it; when one day I don't want to talk about such a topic, maybe a certain part of my body has died, scattered like small children thrown around in the supermarket. cart.
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