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Katherine 2022-03-26 09:01:06

This is a horror movie. I personally like horror movies very much, and I often look for the source of the movie on the Internet. To be honest, the horror index of "Eden" is not very high in terms of picture and plot, at least for people like me who love to watch horror movies. However, the information expressed and conveyed by this film makes people shudder. It is cruel, indifferent, irritable, selfish and cowardly. The film confronts the initial and fundamental of human nature from a few 11- or 12-year-old children.

After watching this movie, the first thing that came to my mind was Xunzi's theory of evil sex, "The life of a human being is also a villain." Although the idea that human nature is inherently evil is a little hard to accept, it is basically true. What is good and what is evil. If a clear standard is really needed, many people or almost everyone can't make this definition, and the words of one family can't convince the public. But if a specific thing happens, it is easier to make a judgment. At most, there will be different opinions because of the different positions of bystanders. So how do the judges confirm these good and evil? In my opinion, the way of thinking comes from the environment in which a person grows up and his education. At the beginning of life, the instinct to survive will create some evil in your eyes; young children are ignorant, they are easy to kill at will, without mercy or kindness. Some would say it is because they are still young and ignorant. However, it is precisely because they are still young and have not been affected by the surrounding environment that children show their nature and nature. They have not received enough education. After the children grow up, they will gradually form their own views of good and evil, and they will learn to use civilization to suppress or cover up the evil in their hearts. But don't take the reason that the child is still young and ignorant. It is called nature without modification and concealment. Life itself is full of cruelty and blood, so it needs to be decorated with civilization.

Of course, this does not mean that there is no goodness in human nature. I never deny compassion and kindness in human nature. I have also seen many acts of kindness from others, but these are all shaped by acquired education. Kindness is just a habit rather than a nature. The instinct of living beings has never been kind, it was so before, and it will be so in the future. Human nature is always evil.

At the beginning of the film, the director borrowed a broadcast to express some of the views that "powerless parents cannot control their children's behavior", "bring respect to the school and the community", "let parents take courses on how to be parents" " Children need to learn something." And all these consequences are reflected in the film.

In the film, parents look like domineering tyrants who discipline their children by swearing and corporal punishment. On the surface, it seems that he is in complete control of his children, but in fact, this precisely reflects the powerlessness of the parents.
They have no choice and no choice. Apart from beating and scolding, they cannot communicate with their children at all. The growth environment determines a child's character and future. This kind of violent education will distort the children's hearts over time, and the violent factors will gradually breed and grow stronger as they grow.

Suddenly I thought of a widely circulated saying on the Internet, "It's really scary to think that you don't have to pass an exam to be a parent". Parenting is an experience that most people can have, but how many people can become qualified parents. Many parents always think that they are good to their children and are used to imposing their own ideas on their children. Not long ago, I saw such a piece of news, "16-year-old girl who was sent to Wangjie school hurts her father and kills her mother." dead mother. This news is mentioned because the parents in the news are as typical as in the film. Parents lack communication with their daughters and maintain a stern image in front of their daughters. Regardless of her daughter's refutation and refusal, she was forcibly sent to Wangjie School. I believe most people know about the online ring school. The 16-year-old girl endured more than four months of torture in Wangjie School, and finally managed to escape from it. The resentment and anger in her heart made her do this evil.

Children are not the private property of their parents. Both parties should have equal identities and have equal exchanges.

In addition, parents are also the best teachers for their children, and every move will become a role model for their children to learn from, just like a saying goes: the dragon begets the dragon, the phoenix begets the phoenix, and the son of the mouse will make a hole. In the movie, those parents are rude, selfish and arrogant people, grabbing parking spaces, swearing, and evading responsibility. I could have been talking and laughing, but when I heard that my child had punctured the protagonist's rear tire, he immediately changed his face: "Not my child. Not mine."
In the final scene, when the adults who were still helping the heroine knew the truth, they even tore off their disguise, "We have the final say here." With such parents, children will It's no wonder he grew into what he looked like in the movie.

Parenting has always been a lesson in life.

In addition to the parents who affect the children, there are also the little friends who play with them. In the film, there are six children, five men and one woman, who act together as a group. In this group there is a ruler who calls the shots, Bright, and three followers and two cowardly subordinates. This constitutes a relatively stable and lasting class structure, that is, a kind of power structure. This made the hero Steve when he was caught and tortured by the children, even if some children thought it was not good, they would not come forward to stop it. Instead, under Bright's threat, everyone became an accomplice. participants.
This scene is also the most depressing part of the whole movie. Although there were contradictions between the two sides in the early stage, the conflict did not rise to such a level of hurting people's lives. There are many things that can be said in this place, and the collective evil under the guidance of the power has also begun to change to the collective spontaneous evil. After that, several people who originally needed Bright's compulsion have begun to degenerate spontaneously.

Collective evil led by power. This is the best way to highlight the cowardice and selfishness in human nature. If a few other kids who didn't want to hurt the hero and heroine in the first place had bravely rejected Bright, the story would have been completely different. But they didn't, and they couldn't possibly have. Because people are selfish, why refuse to hurt strangers at the cost of turning against Bright or even being bullied? Even if this will kill the hero and heroine? The film that shows this to the extreme is Adam, the little boy who is isolated and bullied outside the group of six.

When the heroine Jenny wanted to escape from Lake Eden to ask for help, she happened to meet Adam. Because of her injury and ignorance of the way, Jenny asked Adam for help, hoping that Adam could let his mother take Jenny into the city. But Adam deceived Jenny and took her into the ambush circle agreed with Bright and others.

I rewatched this episode five times, just to observe Adam's expression. When Jenny asked, "Why don't we follow the sign?", Yada didn't hesitate. "This road is faster."
The first time I watched it, I didn't understand it, and I was still thinking that this weak boy was going to explode the rhythm. Every time after that, the chill in my heart deepened a little when I saw this. Will Adam not know the consequences of Jenny's capture? Even if he really doesn't know, he can choose to pretend that he hasn't seen Jenny, anyway, no one can know, but maybe if he can't find it, he will be beaten by Bright and others, so he chose to deceive Jenny. Let Jenny fall into the hands of Bright and others, and face the danger of being burned to death.

When Jenny escaped from the fire, Bright took Adam as a hostage and wanted to force Jenny to come back, and threatened to burn Adam if Jenny didn't come back. Adam then called out to Jenny for help.
My anger at Adam came to a head when I saw this. If Jenny comes back to save him, then the situation is clear - Jenny will be burned alive. Would Adam not know? Impossible not to know. But he still shouted, because Jenny's death had nothing to do with him, even if it was because of him. Fortunately, Jenny didn't come back.

The cowardice and ugliness in human nature are the same no matter what ethnic group it is. This is the common nature of human beings.

There are two lines that impressed me the most in the whole film. One is Bright said, "Do you know what a prison is like? Have you ever been in? Has your old man ever been in?"
The consequences of inadequate education are clearly shown here.

The other is what the dead daughter's mother said at the end, "They're still just kids."
This reminds me of the Lan Jisu Internet Cafe incident in 2002 and the Beijing juvenile torture and murder case in 2006. The former caused 24 deaths and 13 injuries to varying degrees, but one of the four teenagers was exempted from criminal responsibility because he was under the age of 14, and the other three were sentenced to two 18 years and one 7 years respectively because they were minors. One person even refused to apologize in court. A full 24 lives were offset by a total of 43 years in prison. The latter is the brutal murder of a 36-year-old woman by four teenagers, and then sentenced to 17 years, 14 years, 17 years, and 9 years respectively, two of them are 17 years old, and the other two are 19 and 16 years old respectively. , even if he is 18 years old, he is only sentenced to 17 years, not to mention the death penalty, not even life.

He's still just a child...his nature is not bad...he didn't mean to...he's not sensible...I've seen too many words like this, it sounds absurd at first, but it's wrong If it's wrong, it's a mistake. No matter who it is, it is necessary to bear the responsibility. It is always someone else to bear the responsibility, not to leave the responsibility to the age. I thought of a favorite saying: The world created by God must be fair and just. If someone makes a mistake, he should pay the price. Who believes in the glory of God if people make mistakes and don't pay the price?
I don't believe in God, but I choose to believe this sentence.

Finally, I want to make a statement that all the good and evil I mentioned above are based on human morality. If there is no such premise, then everything is for survival, and it is the evolution of the natural law of natural selection.
We all want to live better.


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Eden Lake quotes

  • 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!