ordinary little people

Gail 2022-09-25 20:08:29

There is a lyric about how many people there are in the world who are unwilling to be ordinary like me. What they sing is an illusory ideal, and the reality is more piled up by many ordinary people.

This movie was discovered by accident, and I watched it twice. At first, I felt that the rhythm of the foreshadowing was too long, but when I saw the back, I felt the importance of the prelude more and more. The male protagonist is a high school graduate lawyer who works hard to live to support a family. In the surrounding atmosphere of lawyers graduating from colleges and universities, he can only gain a foothold in the world by blazing a trail of thorns. The ridiculousness of people's jokes, those so-called famous school lawyers are even more ridiculous.

Weeping twice before and after, one is that the mother in the movie could not find her son for two months. With the help of the male protagonist, she was able to meet the arrested child. When she saw her own child, the mother was so strong that she could not see her emotions, but When the son was tortured and only said a few words that were instilled, when he saw his mother, he was no longer naive but painful. The mother could no longer be strong, and her grief made herself cry with this suffering.

The second time I shed tears, I finally found the witness after all the hardships, but because of the identity of the witness, the validity of the certificate was lost. It was like the last straw, it was broken. And those government officials who exercise their infinitely expanded rights in the name of the state are still alive and well.

There are not many things I can write after reading it, but I just want to remember these scattered but powerful emotions. What I admire more is the power of their pursuit of democracy. No matter what a nation is inferior to others, as long as there is a spark of hope, everything will have a future to talk about, and everything can start a prairie fire. I hope that our country can face up to its own history, not be afraid to face the truth, and do better.

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The Attorney quotes

  • Choi Soon-ae: Old debts are settled by face, not money.

  • Jin-woo: You can throw dozens of eggs, but it can't hurt a boulder... As weak as eggs are, they are still living things... Boulders will break into dust, but eggs will hatch with life.