What makes me most tragic about this film is that in it, I can't find a "wicked person", can't find an object that can let me vent my disappointment and anger, so I can only quietly taste the cruelty of reality. , At the moment Selma was hanged, she was saddened by an innocent life lost and her unpredictable child. Who is the villain I can condemn, is it the police officer Bill who directly caused Selma's "crime"? However, at the beginning of the film, he was also such a kind person. He and his wife provided Selma with a place to stay, took care of her children, and bought a bicycle for her children as a birthday gift. He also appeared so pitiful, so helpless, as a man, suffering for not being able to earn enough money to satisfy his wife's life. Therefore, I believe that he stealing Selma's money was not the crime of a villain, but a cruel natural reaction of a weak person trying to hurt a weaker person in a burst of despair. Even when Selma asked him to get the money back, he showed a helpless pleading, and then he insulted Selma for stealing, which was obviously an impulsive behavior, so that Selma was also panicked. In despair, the policeman who made me pity and hate lost his life. Is it Bill's wife who spends no money? Obviously, she is just an ordinary housewife, and her yearning for a more comfortable life seems beyond reproach, not to mention that she also behaved so kindly at first that people can't blame her at all. Others can't be blamed, the aggressive lawyer in the court? On the premise that we know Selma’s misfortune, we will be full of infinite sympathy for her, and a little disgusted with the lawyer who asked Selma to the end, but he just fulfilled his responsibility, let alone Selma The leaky rhetoric made her conviction seem so "natural." And the director of the orchestra who procrastinated her was only fulfilling the responsibility of a citizen. Although the cold executioners looked cold, they did nothing wrong. So, who caused all this? Who pushed a weak and kind woman into desperation? Perhaps, I can only say that it is society, but this too abstract "responsible person" cannot be relieved, and can only add to the sadness of Selma's death.
In this film, many kind-hearted people still make people feel a touch of warmth, such as the Casey who has been helping Selma, the Jeff who loves Selma, and the one after learning Selma’s death sentence was approved. The female prison guard who embraced her and wept. But the combination of these characters and these warm bits and pieces of the tragedy of Selma is even more impressive. The tragedy seems to have gradually come to Selma in silence. Suddenly, a kind-hearted woman who loves opera and jumps up. The child slid under the gallows. This process is both abrupt and natural. With the documentary-like shooting effect, it makes people feel that it is extremely real and heartbreaking. In the last Selma's illusion opera, she walked to the death penalty room step by step and sang the steps to the death penalty room. This set of shots impressed me, and I counted them in my heart until the screen suddenly counted. 107 steps, the number of steps to death. The scene of the execution at the end was even more real and frightening. For the first time, I saw the hanging process in modern society. I saw the black headgear. I saw the support board prepared to prevent the prisoner from being unable to stand up. I saw it. The death penalty can be carried out in full view. I also saw the panic that a person was going to die. At first, Selma was full of fear of death, but who was not like that. She is just a weak woman. In order to cure her child’s illness and allow him to see her children and grandchildren get married and grow up, she came to the United States from Czechoslovakia at the time. She has received help from many people, and she has always been grateful. , But she kept keeping the secret that the child might be blind, so that she could not even buy him a birthday present on the child’s birthday, which seemed so unreasonable. She worked desperately, quietly accumulating treatment fees for her children, and even clearly remembered the ten cents. At the same time, she had the dream of opera in her heart, discovering the beauty of music from all the sounds of life, even if she Falling into the darkness brought about by blindness, I still dance in the darkness in my heart. It can be said that children and music are her life. For the sake of her children, she is even willing to throw away the opportunity to reverse the case and sacrifice herself. Finally, when she learned that the child had been treated, she was finally relieved and used music to dispel the fear of death. When I was deeply attracted by her singing, the pedal under her feet suddenly opened and a tragedy ended. It also seemed so sudden and cruel.
I think this movie is very good, but I don’t have the urge to recommend it to my friends when I see a good movie, because it’s good, but it’s not “good-looking”, it doesn’t have a happy ending, and it doesn’t render many tragedies. The so-called "beauty" comes from the peculiar kind of tragedy. Let you finish reading it, and suddenly it seems like you have lost something, I think it is the hope of saving this kind woman. As with any film that shows the unfortunate, I have been looking forward to a turnaround during the viewing process. When the lawyer who tried to reverse the case for Selma appeared, I thought it would be a wave of media support. Selma walked out of the prison. However, soon because I was unwilling to pay the money for the treatment of the child to the lawyer, this ray of light was immediately shattered. At that moment, I couldn't help but blame the lawyer for being so cruel, not the kind of unfair lawyer we often hear about, this At that time, where did the reporter go, where did the street parade go? Director Trier revealed the most normal and real life, but it made me unable to respect him, and could not say "this is life" freely. I think everyone has expectations for a better life and a beautiful humanity in their hearts. I don’t want such expectations to be cruelly shattered by Trier. Therefore, after reading the story of this dancer in the dark, I can’t for a long time. Calm, this film is really good, but I will not watch it a second time.
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