The protagonist is a lawyer who struggled to get rich from the bottom. In the face of various explicit or implicit rules in society, he bent down to make money greedily, because he knew that all noble morals were weak and meaningless in the face of reality. Facing the struggle for democracy, freedom, human rights, and autocratic corruption, he stood on the sidelines, because he knew that blood and slogans alone could not change the dark underworld of violence, and hitting a stone with an egg would only break the blood. .
Is it stupid to hit a stone with an egg? A young man told him with clear eyes that the stone is dead, but the egg breeds life, and one day the life it hatches will cross the boulder in front of him.
One day, the teenager disappeared, just because he participated in a book club to share knowledge. A group of young people were brutally imprisoned, beaten, tortured, and forced to confess. Those who carried out atrocities against them were the soldiers and police who held the power of the state. And this young man is just an ordinary teenager beside the protagonist.
Facing your own bright future and the danger of fighting against tyranny, facing the fearful eyes of your wife and children under threat, facing the heart-piercing prayer of the victim, facing the conflict between conscience and reality, if the protagonist is you, you should How to choose?
This is definitely not an easy choice.
Many of us, especially those who are a little revengeful and love this country, who did not have a passion when they were young, but in the face of the grim reality, who can go on without bowing their heads? We often fantasize about the emergence of heroes who can create a more just society for us, because we have too much to worry about and too much helplessness. We tell ourselves that those deep darkness are only individual, and they are far away from us.
We watched soap operas grow fat day by day, we were drunk in various Vanity Fairs, and we used scenes of tragedies as jokes after dinner.
We may immigrate overseas one day, because we also know that it is brighter and warmer there, and we may speak bitterly about our country to foreign friends, as if we are so patriotic.
But what have we done?
Mr. Lu Xun said it well. The blood of the revolutionaries was scattered on the street like that, and they were dipped in steamed buns. The next day, the sun rose as usual, and the market was calm, as if nothing had happened.
However, since it is a movie, the protagonist will never be as mediocre as we are. His performance is very shocking, and the result is very helpless. These are all reasonable, and everyone can watch it.
Finally, just like Lu Xun wants to leave a bouquet of wreaths on the grave, the movie also has a very emotional plot. Facing the court's trial of the protagonist, 99 of the 142 lawyers in Busan appeared in court to defend the protagonist. They stood up heroically one by one in the name of the judge. This scene brought tears to my eyes.
Perhaps this is what the director wants to tell us the most. It will never be meaningless to hit a stone with an egg. It may not have an impact for the time being, but justice and conscience will always have a future, and it is irresistible.
Finally, a dialogue worth pondering. In the court, the protagonist and the villain confronted directly, the villain said, I do all this for the country and the will of the country. The protagonist asks, what country are you talking about? The big villain pointed to the top of course, and asked contemptuously, you don't even know what a country is? The protagonist said that according to the Constitution, the people enjoy all the sovereignty of the country, and the country is the people!
This is by no means a boring remark, there are clear rules and unspoken rules for many things, we know, but we always pretend that we don't know, as if we are very smart.
"The Defender" is a movie worth watching and even more thoughtful. Korean movies have such a tradition of daring to reflect, but we, if nothing else, has been banned for a long time, making Jiang Wen more and more cunning. "Let the Bullets Fly" is indeed very clever, but this Is this smart transformation the strength of our social mechanism, or is it sadness?
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