"Unbelievable" has a total of 8 episodes and it is over. Originally, the author felt that the topic was heavy and didn't want to watch it. Later, I found that it was adapted from real people and real stories . I finally made the show on the last day of September.
The main line of the story is not complicated: Mary Adler encountered an assault at home in 2008, but after calling the police, she was identified as a false report because she did not extract enough evidence. After that, the impunity inmates got worse until they were captured by two female policemen in 2011 and were eventually sentenced to 372 and a half years in prison.
If you are used to watching the FBI in "Criminal Minds", you might find this show a bit slower. After all, it was the unjust, false, and wrongly filed cases three or four years ago that were delayed until 2011. They often took detours and wasted time, but this happened to be the focus of this drama, the sense of reality.
This article will analyze from three aspects:
Why did the tragedy intensify?
What's wrong with the handling method?
The meaning of heroes.
1. Why has the tragedy intensified?
At the beginning of the story, the tragedy has become a reality. Mary is an 18-year-old girl with no father and unreliable mother. She grew up in a foster family and started living alone 6 months ago. One night, after she fell asleep, someone invaded and sexually assaulted her. Later she called the police, but everything was moving in a worse direction.
They don't believe it.
Perhaps Mary's reaction was too cold, and her two adoptive mothers came here specially and didn't see her crying, crying, hysterical, desperate, and prepared sympathy that didn't work, so she felt that she was abnormal.
If it was just a casual smear, the adoptive mother also told the police about her immature thoughts, saying that Mary might just want to ask for attention, so she made up everything. The speculation is based on having this experience in herself, and Mary reacted differently to herself.
The evidence at the scene is insufficient, and everything goes against Mary.
Over the past few years, I myself have increasingly felt that it is difficult to prove that one thing has a direct causal relationship with another.
Even if Mary checks her body, it is difficult to explain who caused everything, and it is even harder to explain Mary's willingness. But in any case, the police's approach in the play is absolutely inappropriate. In the US legal system, the "presumption of innocence" is often applied to suspects, and the accused is presumed innocence before the guilt is confirmed without trial. But the two police officers actually thought about it with their heads, and felt that the story could not be rounded up, so they made up one themselves and found Mary, the victim, guilty.
Their logic is this: because Mary's life is too difficult, she will do sensationalism. Then threatened her with a hypothesis: lying is to be locked up. When the little girl was frightened to doubt herself and gave in and signed, they said that this result happened to prove that Mary admitted to lying, and Mary was not credible.
Specifically, they pointed out that Marie had four arguments for calling for help:
Then began to replenish the brain, threatening:
threat:
threat:
Finally, they came to the conclusion: edited. Additional, you waste our time, we want to sue you.
Take the girl to court:
Police officers are naturally responsible, but they may not be heinous themselves. Why is Mary vague? The reason is probably that people have a biased understanding of traumatic memories.
First of all, memory itself is very subjective. In fact, some researchers have done many experiments on the memory accuracy of witnesses of major events such as Kennedy time or 9/11 and found that the memories of witnesses often deviate seriously from the facts.
Moreover, after a traumatic event, some victims will experience a sense of dissociation-loss of sense of reality, the world does not seem to be real, and they feel very unreal, etc. A sense of dissociation occurs when a person feels that he is not where he is, or when a person continues to feel unreal after something. This may be a psychological defense against the effects of trauma. For example, our brains cannot handle too traumatic events, which will make this memory untouchable.
For example, when Mary asked the police, what appeared in her mind repeatedly was a picture of the seaside that she was anxious about at the time. She was laughing and then drowned. Her happiness and vitality seemed to end here.
Through the lens, we know that Mary’s memories are like this, but how to describe this memory to the police and tell the psychiatrist may be almost the same.
Moreover, people's narrative angle of memory is not necessarily as people imagine. Traumatic events are usually stored in fragmented and emotional feelings, lacking a clear structure. The police are looking forward to a clear and logical statement. Mary can't make it, and she can't make it clear. In addition, the police officers have been suspicious of the threat of brainwashing, and everything is going in the worst direction for her.
She was raped, accused of lying, prosecuted, fined, and lost friends, job, and residence.
2. What's wrong with the handling method?
First, the victim.
Although the adoptive mothers felt that Mary was abnormal, what Mary showed was just the numbness of a girl who was struggling to survive.
On the one hand, her philosophy of survival is like this: accept whatever life is given, be glad that everything hasn’t gotten worse, and fight against those who are stronger than you will be hurt.
On the other hand, the performance of post-traumatic stress disorder is like this: after personally experiencing the traumatic event, feeling the repeated, involuntary and intrusive painful memories of the traumatic event, it may produce avoidance behavior, and the inability to remember the traumatic event Some important aspect etc.
——Description comes from the "Manual of Diagnosis and Statistics of Mental Disorders" of the American Psychiatric Association
So Mary appeared to be evasive, cold, and unwilling to mention it, which may be the brain's self-evasion. Maybe she hopes everything will be business as usual and wants to go to the supermarket to buy the same daisy bed sheets instead of being treated differently.
In addition, she is not a happy dependent girl. I cry only when someone is reasonable, and I will endure it next time I cried and slapped it.
I have similar feelings myself. My father has a good personality, but he is very disgusting with his family. When I was a child, there was a car accident and blood dripped all over the ground. I pressed the wound and waited for my dad to come and pick me up. Before he came, I was very calm. The moment I saw him, I actually wanted to cry, but he gave me a surprised and disgusting look, and went to the doctor and the onlookers to laugh. My emotions disappeared immediately, my tears were gone, and I calmly went through the procedures and waited for stitches.
Not even a dog will behave like a baby to someone who always rejects him. People who have been living indifferently will never show weakness to others, and Mary has no reliable protector.
Second, the police:
Mary was very unlucky, everything was not so good . The police are not efficient in handling things. The same problem, regardless of the victim's physical and mental state, asks over and over again, which in itself is a secondary injury to the victim.
The positive example is this: the policewoman's handling method tells the other party that if there is a need, she is always there.
This makes sense. If the bystander reacts too much and looks like "you can't get rid of the shadow that this incident has cast on you," the victim will reassess his own evaluation of similar incidents and think it is a A serious matter. Therefore, if someone experiences a potentially traumatic event, just let them understand that you will show up in time no matter when they need your support and help. Don't force others to talk about things they don't want to say, they may never want to face it, because they feel that doing so will make themselves "secondary hurt."
Third, the people around.
Many people will actively express sympathy at the beginning, but quickly lose patience, and may feel "We all care about you so much, why are you not getting better" or "You are too annoying." As for the film, they felt that the girl lied, and then disgusted, abused, and online violence. But in fact, the sympathy of irrelevant people is not important. If you have to sympathize and ask for rewards, it is just a pursuit of self-identification and fantasies of "I am a kind and good person".
Third, the meaning of heroes
This is the biggest significance of this drama, to save the victims.
The victims who have experienced everything are the worst. The first is shame and shame. People will not be ashamed of being robbed or stolen, but they will condemn and be ashamed of experiencing such incidents, and even reflect on why the bad guys choose themselves and whether they did something wrong. Even if it is a fracture or an operation, it is only a few months of suffering, but the impact has been spreading for a long time, and the pain is painful.
Some people don't understand and think that girls want to drive, but that's not the case at all. Violence also accounts for a large part of sexual violence, which is a sense of deprivation, a sense of loss of power, and a sense of self-loss of depriving a person of the social attributes of a person as a human being and treating a person as a creature. In the British drama "IT Madman", Roy was traumatized by a masseuse who kissed her butt casually. Although this is a comedy, any violations without your permission should not be done regardless of gender or age. They make people lose sense of security.
This film is based on facts, it happened to be two women who ended everything. Of course, it would be boring if you watch a movie and run into confrontation. The responsibility of a society as a whole should not be left to the individual. This tragedy is not just a problem of male police officers. It is that the flaws of the system and the system have been exploited. Even they may have been responsible before, but they were not willing to believe it because they were influenced by the false report. The best thing the female police officer did was to empathize.
I am a person who often finds no meaning in life. I like the metaphor of Camus's "The Myth of Sisyphus", and I think I might have always been like this.
But some professions, such as police and doctors, do carry meanings that ordinary people cannot afford. These should not be left to individuals, but they really exist. How to deal with it has a great impact on people and yourself. The two male policemen in this film use their actions to turn themselves into rubbish among the peers, part of the little girl’s nightmare. The two policewomen used their actions to make countless little girls from far away feel that there is still a beautiful existence in life. What they did is absolutely meaningful, they are heroes.
The real victims in real life, after watching this film, also contacted the author of the original adaptation, saying that they think this drama is great, and that he and that experience have come to an end.
These are probably meanings.
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