Swedish movie "Evil", after watching it, I have a thousand words and I don't know where to start. Because it touches people too much, but because it covers too much content, it is impossible to cut in and say something from a certain point and angle.
If you have to sort this out before you can write it out, you can only tell your thoughts one by one in detail. If there is an order, then start with the deepest and clearest intuition.
The first is the impression that the hero Eric gave me. He was at home, abused by his stepfather, and faced corporal punishment with whips or slaps every day. Later, I was expelled for fighting with people at school. As for the reason, I will not delve into it. Because the point was that after his mother sold some of the property, he was sent to another boarding school four hours away from home, and it was an aristocratic school that charges a lot of money.
Here, Eric faces bullying and oppression just as well. But he couldn't fight back or hit people, that would get him fired. He could no longer make his mother sad and worried, so he had to hold back and act as one of the submissive crowd.
He was burned with a cigarette butt by a member of the student council. He was beaten openly in the dining hall with wounds all over his face. He was inexplicably punished for manual labor. Including having him nail a stake later, tying his hands and feet to it, then pouring boiling water and then cold water. When all the torture and bullying appeared on him, what people felt was not embarrassment and pity, but a tenacity and toughness that made people feel that his soul was inviolable.
His deep, stubborn, sharp, bright, firm eyes shine bright and charming even in the face of bullying and torture, as if saying: even if you tear my body, you will Can't ingest my soul.
It is because of this that he made the people who bullied him even more embarrassed and angry, and angered their attention and attack on him even more. Although he endured and endured for a smooth graduation, he was eventually fired because he was discovered to be in love with a female cafeteria worker. The school first fired the female worker, then confiscated her letter to Eric and fired him as evidence.
He didn't justify, didn't resist, just packed up and prepared to leave, as always. Although he did not know how to explain to his mother. Fortunately, when I was desperate, I thought of my father's lawyer friend. A lawyer friend helped him out of the siege, because the school's confiscation of letters violated legal privacy rights. They used this small incident as a "coercion", and Eric was able to stay until graduation.
Of course, this does not mean that he has defeated the evil forces on the campus. However, behind his strong personality, he has since then had a stroke of wisdom. In the future, he will continue to study the law, and maybe he wants to be like Gandhi, using peaceful and just means to deal with the enemy, and then win the victory.
Only in this way can we truly win. Fists are sometimes required, but when rules are required, they cannot be raised casually. Otherwise, you will hurt yourself. But sometimes, we have to break the rules and raise our fists. The premise is still to protect ourselves first before we have the physical strength and chance to defeat others. There are also times when we can't retaliate in the same way that we do. Like when Eric found the student council president and threatened to kill him, the kid was so frightened that he knelt down and begged for mercy, and vomited into a ball. Afterwards Eric smiled and said, "Did you think I would really kill you? I'm not like you."
Yes, I'm not like you. Therefore, I will not use your despicable means against you.
This movie also reminds people of Camus' novel "The Outsider". The male protagonist's indifferent attitude, even if he is finally sentenced to death, seems to have nothing to do with him, which is somewhat similar to Eric in this movie. In the face of bullying and torture, Eric changed from the initial anger to the final habit. But this "normal" is not acceptance and obedience, but contempt. It is also a power, a power that prevents those evil forces from truly invading and conquering.
For this reason, after watching this movie, I always feel suffocated. The ending of this film cannot be measured by success or failure, but makes the viewer feel a powerful undercurrent of unyielding flowing under the surface of submission. Although Eric was bleeding, he was not crying. Although he is suffering, he is mentally ready to fight back and face it at any time.
After watching this film, presumably many viewers will be interested in the law, and will remember Eric's firm and tenacious eyes.
View more about Evil reviews
