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.
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."
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.
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."
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.
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 other is what the dead daughter's mother said at the end, "They're still just kids."
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?
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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