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I knew about this Russian film for a long time, but never watched it.
Someone recommended this movie to me recently, so I watched it.
This movie is called "Fool in a Dangerous Building", which is actually quite a topic. This is a film made in Russia in 2014.
This film is mainly about a person who is very stupid and admits death in order to save 820 low-quality people in a dilapidated building. Fortunately, he escaped the execution of the government, but he did not escape being beaten to death by the group of people he wanted to save.
"We live like animals and die like animals because we don't matter to each other."
This is a story that happened in 24 hours.
The man's name is Dima, a plumber.
It is always difficult for a gentle and correct person to survive, because the world is neither gentle nor correct.
Therefore, it seems insignificant and seems to be out of tune with this society.
Dima lives with his parents, wife and children in a building built in the last century. This kind of building is crowded with people and has simple facilities.
He could have lived his life in poverty and safety.
On a cold winter night, a nine-story residential building built in the Khrushchev era suddenly burst the hot water pipe. Dima, the plumber, arrived in a hurry because the chief engineer was too drunk to make it to the scene. Although Dima is a plumber, he is studying by himself as an architect and is about to take the exam. He hopes that he can pass the exam so that his family can live a better life.
Since the chief engineer was away, Dima used his self-taught construction knowledge on the site and found that it was not a single incident of a hot water pipe burst at all, but a displacement of the load-bearing wall, and a crack leading to the roof on each side of the building. After calculations, the building will collapse within 24 hours.
This is a life-threatening quality accident.
Dima, a young plumber who doesn't understand politics, asked the female mayor to report the situation overnight, and found that the female mayor was celebrating her 50th birthday with the guests and was having a birthday party.
I rely on, very happy ah.
Because to a certain extent, the collapse of residential buildings and the birthday party of the female mayor are organically linked.
Since the birthday has been messed up, we will convene a meeting of the heads of the relevant departments to deal with the matter.
A group of officials, each with their own minds.
Because everyone wants to push the responsibility out.
The chief engineer of the housing management bureau insisted on organizing more than 10 experts to conduct regional inspections and evaluations before making a conclusion, but the director of fire safety thought that he would find out that he did not do a routine safety inspection.
The result of the meeting was that this matter could not be dealt with at all, and there were too many corruption issues, and funds were misappropriated.
The most realistic problem in dealing with dilapidated buildings is in front of us: to deal with this matter, we need extra housing for resettlement, and we need as much as 260 million resettlement funds, but this is not available. Many funds were embezzled and misappropriated by these officials on the scene, including the female mayor.
According to the words of the female mayor, the remaining funds are only enough to paint the walls and waterproof the roof. How can there be any extra money?
Of course, the 820 residents of this building are all drug addicts, gamblers, alcoholics, and prisoners.
Low-level population, this is easy to handle.
In the eyes of these officials, these people are rubbish and not worth saving.
Of course, there is another way to deal with this matter is to release relevant news, but this is tantamount to admitting that the previous work of the government is completely perfunctory, and ultimately it will involve the serious corruption of these government officials.
This is also something that cannot be done.
How to do? The female mayor thought of a way to direct a fire and evacuate the residents through the concerted efforts of all departments. This can also avoid the problem of housing quality, but also shows the government's decisiveness in handling the problem and the spirit of serving the people.
But it has to be housed.
The hopeful female mayor personally asked the real estate developer who monopolized the entire block for help, hoping that he could lend 2 buildings to the government. But the real estate agent ruthlessly rejected her.
Since there is no place to resettle, there is no need to direct this fire. This will test the government's ability to govern. If you get these people out, but you can't place them, let them freeze to death? This would be self-defeating.
This is a loss-making business and cannot be done.
But time waits for no one.
This building is expected to collapse in 24 hours.
A living person cannot be suffocated to death by urine.
The husband and aide of the female mayor offered a plan. He did not stop at all. He simply arrested two scapegoats, destroyed the corpses and wiped out the traces, and then said that all the accidents were caused by these two people.
This move is too harsh.
The unity of knowledge and action, this matter cannot wait.
It's too late to say. While pretending to order various departments to evacuate residents, the female mayor secretly ordered the police chief to send someone to arrest the director of housing management who was directly responsible, the fire chief who was indirectly responsible, and the "informed" plumber Dima.
It's not over yet.
The female mayor and a group of people also burned all the documents related to the building, and then just waited for the building to collapse as if nothing had happened, and then blamed all the guilt on the three people who had "suicided in fear of crime".
Ok! Perfect.
Don't solve the problem, solve the person who asks the problem, this is a tried and true strategic decision.
Under a bridge, the chief of house management, the chief of fire and the plumber are about to be executed. The chief of house management, who has a little kindness in his heart, asks the executioner to let Dima live. Leave the city as a family and don't show up again. The executioner also felt that the plumber was wronged and let him go.
Dima, who was lucky enough to survive, ran in the heavy snow, and several gunshots were heard under the bridge, and the two scapegoats were dead.
Back home, Dima frantically dragged his wife and sleeping son and drove away.
Halfway through the road, he found that there was no one in front of the dangerous building. It turned out that the female mayor and her government had not taken any action! Just let the residents in this building fend for themselves, and see who will die.
Everything is an illusion!
Dima, who had just escaped from death, decided to let his wife and children go by himself, but to stay and use his own strength to save these 820 lives.
This "foolish man" went straight to the point of no return.
However, Dima is like a real-life Don Quixote, trying to save this group of insensitive people.
Dima ran into the dangerous building without looking back, shouting from house to house, "The building is about to collapse! Come out quickly!" alcoholics' card
The table... drove them downstairs.
These 820 residents are drug addicts, gamblers, alcoholics, and ex-prisoners, because none of them have any will to change their fate. One of them was gambling topless, and in the face of the news that the building was going to collapse, he said very calmly, I don't care about the plumbing, I take a shower once a week. If this building collapses, I don't care either, I won't survive for a few days anyway, right?
What are the consequences of Dima saving these people?
People were disheveled and inexplicably gathered outside the building, with Dima standing in the middle of the crowd like a lost hero.
Suddenly, an alcoholic took the lead and punched Dima. In a few seconds, the angry crowd rushed forward and beat Dima alive. Of course, after the fight, these people re-entered the dangerous building.
Do you treat yourself so lightly and indifferently, and still count on others, the powerful, to save you?
Gustave Le Pen said in the book "The Crowd" that once an individual becomes a member of a group, he will no longer be responsible for his actions, and then everyone will expose his unconstrained side. What the group pursues and believes is never the truth and reason of life, but blind obedience, cruelty, paranoia and fanaticism, and only know simple and extreme feelings.
These 820 people in desperate need of saving test Le Pen's point.
You are far from trying to rescue people who are pretending to be asleep. Because they are not worth your rescue.
Of course, did this dangerous building collapse in the end? do not know. There is no account. Because it doesn't matter anymore. If it collapsed, wouldn't there already be two ghosts for the dead? If it doesn't collapse, the female mayor will summon her subordinates to repair the housing, which will also make a big profit.
It's just that no one cares about that heroic plumber, Dima.
At the end of the film, Dima curled up on the cold concrete floor in front of the dangerous building, protecting his head, without breathing, and no one knew who he was.
This was originally a story of salvation and redemption. However, no one is worth your saving, because you are really worthless to save the lives of those worthless people like animals with your own life.
Mr. Lu Xun wrote in "Blessings" that people rushed to listen to Mrs. Xianglin's story of "A Mao was eaten by a wolf", not out of sympathy, but to satisfy their own curiosity. Seeking excitement in a boring life, and when these people are tired of hearing it, some immediately spurn it, and add a cold and sharp smile to Xianglin's wife, which shows a kind of cruelty.
This is a Chinese spectator, and it is also a portrayal of the 820 Russian spectators, and in fact, it is also a portrayal of spectators from all over the world.
What is the value of Dima's death?
Dima returned to rescue the 820 residents in the dilapidated building on the way to escape. When saying goodbye to his wife, he said that we live like animals and die like animals because we are insignificant to each other.
indeed so!
Liu Zhumin, media person. commentator.
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