This is not a crime film. The most important thing about the film is not the truth itself, because the truth has been pointed out at the beginning. I can feel that the director wants to express something that has been forgotten or ignored in the whole judicial process: What sanctions others? Is it impossible for someone who can kill to be extremely kind? Is it correct to classify humans based on whether they kill or not?
It seems that everyone can guess the development and ending of a story, but the most touching thing is actually the opinions of each of them, the real, habitual, numb, arrogant, judge Chongsheng, former lawyer, novice lawyer, all of them. Without jumping out of the judiciary's thinking track, lawyer Shigesheng touched something other than this. Only Sanyu participated in the trial with a sober and non-resisting attitude, which aroused people's curiosity about his true feelings. This kind of thinking about him is vague and extremely important...
The blind man touching the elephant is actually not about his feelings about the facts of the case, but about the human nature and social rules involved in the case. It is a kind of deeper and more essential thinking. I thank the director for reminding me of the numbness and habitual thinking about human nature. Thinking is actually everywhere, and for this, it is already worthy of full marks
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