Sin, Lies and Indifference

Bernhard 2022-03-25 09:01:22

If you've seen Hard Candy that makes you sick, it's best not to watch this one. The entire viewing process is very chest tightness, based on real events, it happened in Indiana in the 60s, it makes people feel that this is so terrible, oh, so terrible, so terrible, I can no longer look directly into the basement.



Sin
has always believed that violence is always a part of human beings, and that killing and plundering are the most primitive nature of human beings. It's our nature to forcefully hurt others, especially when you're hurt inside but you can't find comfort. In the play, the mother who raises five or six children by herself is actually such a person who is injured but cannot take care of herself. It was those men who hurt her, those who sowed the seeds but escaped. It is difficult for a person to maintain a family, let alone to have an abortion. Over time, he will become numb, give in, and no longer strong. When the mother abused poor Serbia in front of the children, the children had already learned this bullying instinct subconsciously. Therefore, don't underestimate the terrible group of children. Under the inducement, their crimes will be committed after the fact, and they themselves do not know why they do it. It's really outrageous that you don't even know why you committed the crime. There seems to be a proper term, what is collective consciousness crime, like another movie wave, like the Red Guards, like the Nazis, they are all crimes.



Lies
are so easy to say from the mouth compared to sins. In the play, the mother is a bit of a delicate personality. On the one hand, she vented her emotions to the innocent Serbian, but she used lies to deceive her children and priests. Even in the courtroom, she made a statement about her child's crimes. You can deceive yourself that they are lying, but they are not. On the other hand, to comfort Serbia, tell her that she is doing this to protect the whole family, and she is fooling herself. She sacrificed Serbia to protect her children, and she used her children to protect herself. In the final analysis, lies are as terrible as sins, one blinds her own heart, and the other plunders the hearts of others.



Indifference
finally, sin and lies mixed together and killed Serbia. Serbia, who believed in God, asked himself after his death, did God really have all the arrangements, in the face of brutality, and watching the atrocities happen not only indifferent, but happy about it, or knowing that the evil happened, but because of cowardice and hurt? There was nothing he could do to stop it.

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Extended Reading
  • Bailey 2022-03-23 09:03:21

    The case itself is very extreme and shocking, and the processing of the film is much lighter and softer, and the second half of the film is slightly less powerful. Depressed women, ignorant children, teenage girls with early pregnancy, and the occlusion of rural towns in the United States in the last century constituted this human tragedy. ps. The female protagonist's biological parents have no words. It's really a series of stupid X can have children. I want to watch "Fruit Hard Candy" all over the place.

  • Nakia 2022-03-29 09:01:08

    Adapted from a true event, it tells the story of a girl played by Ellen Page who was fostered in the home of a single mother by her parents who went out to work and then abused to death. The brutality and cruelty shown in the film are simply a nightmare. Although child abuse incidents have been staged in China, but after the media reports, they have gradually faded out of people's field of vision. I really hope that this kind of film can be produced in China and attract the attention of the society, especially some authorities.

An American Crime quotes

  • Shirley Baniszewski: Don't worry Jennie. Mamma's just teaching her.

  • Gertrude Baniszewski: [preparing to write the tattoo onto Sylvia's belly] Ricky... she came back from juvenile! Started stirring up trouble again... Johnny hold her!

    Sylvia Likens: No, please, please!

    Gertrude Baniszewski: Keep her still!

    Marie Baniszewski: If you move, it'll only be messy.

    Gertrude Baniszewski: [gives Marie a lighter and a safety pin] Light that.

    Sylvia Likens: No! No! No! Please! No! No! Please! Please!

    Gertrude Baniszewski: Stop it!

    Shirley Baniszewski: You got it right, mama?

    Gertrude Baniszewski: Make sure it's hot!

    Sylvia Likens: I'm sorry! I'm sorry!

    Gertrude Baniszewski: You liar!

    Sylvia Likens: Please stop, please no! Please!

    [Marie gives Gertrude the safety pin]

    Gertrude Baniszewski: You branded my daughters... now I have to brand you.