"They're just kids"

Noemy 2022-03-25 09:01:09

There is an old saying that 3 years old is 7 years old and 7 years old is old, and I take it seriously. People always try to comfort and hypnotize themselves. Human nature is good, and they don't want to believe that some people are born beyond redemption. They are not deceived by Satan, they are Satan himself.
Of all the excuses that exist in this world, the most incomprehensible thing is that when children make mistakes, parents use "he's just a child" to excuse themselves, which can be said to be the catchphrase of the parents of arrogant children. But I always feel that in many cases this sentence is just used by selfish parents to cover up their children, or used to deceive themselves. It seems that if all the faults are blamed on the identity of the "child", it seems that you can leave your own responsibility behind. It's all right: It's not that my child is inherently bad, or that there is something wrong with my education, it's just that he is just a child, and he will naturally get better when he grows up. In my opinion, the logic of this sentence is equivalent to "Although I kill and set fire, there is a group of seagulls flying on the other side of the South Pacific~"
It may be related to my major in biology. I believe that any type of life form in the world, the essence The above are all genetic carriers, and there is no sacred reason. Human form and thoughts are all forms of expression, and genes are the big bosses behind the scenes. Genes try to pass on themselves, so the next generation of bad people are mostly bad people, and the next generation of good people are mostly good people. The growth path of bad people is bad kid → bad youth → bad guy → bad old man, that's all. So bad people have nothing to do with stages, just like murder and arson have nothing to do with seagulls in the South Pacific.
The movie "Lake Eden" is said to be adapted from a massacre that caused a sensation in Europe: after teenagers surrounded and hunted holiday lovers, their parents also helped to commit the murder. In the end, the incident happened, but the murderer could not be convicted because he was under the legal age. The movie I watched at station B, there are a lot of barrages at the beginning of the movie reminding the audience that this movie is extremely depressing and people with poor psychological tolerance are not easy to watch. It does. After watching this movie, what impressed me the most was not that the male protagonist was tortured and killed by the children, nor that the female protagonist struggled all the way but still could not escape the despair. But in the end, in the small town, when the parent of a child found out that his child was negligently killed by the heroine, he burst into tears and cried, "He's still just a child!" It was outrageous.
In my opinion, this film is very directional, that is, can minors really do evil under the protection of the law on the protection of minors? A group of 15- and 6-year-old teenagers basically have the physical qualities of adults, and their world view has basically taken shape. Can "just a child" really be used as a shield? Of course, even in the process of watching the movie, especially when the heroine kills 2 members of the other gang, it can still be seen that the vindicators at the moral high ground denounce the heroine: they are bad people, but if you do the same They do the same thing and become the same person as them. This remark is often seen in various film and television works and does not make comments.
One of the reasons why I don't want to be a primary and secondary school teacher is that I think children and teenagers are the scariest people in the world. Children under the age of 10 are the most ignorant and do things by nature. The evil in human nature can be exposed in childhood, and it is even more terrible if their parents are also evil. So in elementary school, we can see the worst bullying, the most ruthless insults, the most blatant jealousy, the unadorned malice of children, the unrestrained thoughts of moral standards, and the inherent evil roots. Teenagers from junior high school and above are even more frightening. They already have the action power of adults, but they are still in the stage of ignorance and stupidity. They are pretentious and lawless but lack the basic understanding of life. Difference is the center of the world. I also came from junior high school and witnessed the violence and rudeness of my peers, the humiliation and isolation of people with physical or character defects, and even the bullying of teachers (the husband of a Chinese teacher in junior high school died young, but became a The basis for the personal attacks on him by classmates at that time, and now think about how vicious it is), of course, there is also the silence of most people (yes, I am one of them).

This movie review seems to be written a bit extreme, but in fact I don't have extreme thoughts. According to the bell curve, there are very few pure saints and pure villains. Most people are just ordinary people, ordinary people with various shortcomings and advantages, such as the example I mentioned above, my classmates, In essence, they can be said to be good people, and their evil deeds are just because they have not received good guidance on the road that is easy to get lost. To put it bluntly, they are stupid. However, the principles of most ordinary people are vague and wavering, and they can neither achieve extreme goodness nor cruelty to extreme evil. For example, most of the members of the gang in the movie are just foxes and tigers. However, it is this kind of people who often end up the most miserable, swaying between good and evil. In fact, it is weakness that is exposed, and they are often cannon fodder in the end.
However, a single rat feces ruins a whole pot of soup. The reality is that the benign effects caused by a good person will never be worth one-tenth of the malignant effects caused by a wicked person. The brilliance of human nature is radiant, and the viciousness of human nature is also outrageous.

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  • Steve: I promise, the quarry's fucking stunning.

    Jenny: The quarry is stunning. No 'fucking'.

    Steve: [getting closer to her] Please, miss.

  • Brett: Follow the blood!